Anne McCaffery - RIP
Nov. 23rd, 2011 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanMy heart gave a little rip and studder when I read the news last night that Anne McCaffrey had died. Her books, particularly the original Dragonriders of Pern and Harper Hall Trilogies were seminal works that strongly shaped my views of the world.
As a pre-teen and a teenager, I played the pedal harp and piano (or rather, took lessons) and naturally gravitated towards first to Dragonsong and Dragonsinger, then I read the original Dragonflight and Dragonquest. White Dragon and Dragon Drums were published just as I was entering high school, and all six books - my original paperback copies are a beloved part of my library.
When I say that these books were important in shaping my worldview, I mean that they were the books that made me aware that there was nothing wrong or unnatural about same sex relationships. I remember reading Dragonflight and realizing that male Green Dragon riders were doing it with other men and no one really seemed to think it was anything out of the ordinary, wrong or strange.
And in 1977 (when I first read these books), that was unique.
Ride on, dearest Anne.
As a pre-teen and a teenager, I played the pedal harp and piano (or rather, took lessons) and naturally gravitated towards first to Dragonsong and Dragonsinger, then I read the original Dragonflight and Dragonquest. White Dragon and Dragon Drums were published just as I was entering high school, and all six books - my original paperback copies are a beloved part of my library.
When I say that these books were important in shaping my worldview, I mean that they were the books that made me aware that there was nothing wrong or unnatural about same sex relationships. I remember reading Dragonflight and realizing that male Green Dragon riders were doing it with other men and no one really seemed to think it was anything out of the ordinary, wrong or strange.
And in 1977 (when I first read these books), that was unique.
Ride on, dearest Anne.
