Word: fictions
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Upon graduating cum laude from Radcliffe, Anne I. McCaffrey '47 never would have guessed that she would become one of the most prominent and prolific science-fiction writers of her time...
...Slavic languages and literatures concentrator, the closest McCaffrey came to science fiction was using a Slavic science-fiction book in her honors thesis. Now she is the author of the wildly popular Dragonriders of Pern series, and has written a total of 55 books and more than 60 short stories...
McCaffrey began to write short stories, and entered the realm of science fiction and fantasy because, she says, that is the where she found a market for her work...
McCaffrey's book Restoree, published in 1968, was a send-up of other science-fiction novels of the 1950s and '60s that portrayed women as weak, damsel-in-distress types. "I got so goddamn tired of the heroines' sitting in the corner of the spaceship wringing their hands and crying," McCaffrey says. "I would have been in there kicking and screaming, doing anything to help the hero...
Writing has become a gratifying experience for McCaffrey, and many honors have been bestowed on her in the world of science fiction. In 1968, she was given the Hugo Award, one of the top prizes in science fiction, for Weyr Search. "No one was more surprised when they announced my name than I," says McCaffrey. "I didn't need an airplane to fly home. It was sort of a stamp of approval because I was the first woman writer...