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...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...

Author: By Jessie M. Amberg, | Title: Dragons, 'Weyrwomen' Haunt a Sci-Fi Writer's Domain | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that no one story or author has a copyright on Good and Evil, but it is definitely a tired plot which leaves the viewer expecting Frodo to walk in at any moment...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

Midillielders Bobby Johnson and Rick Frisbic stored once each to give the Crimson a two-goal advantage, but Pern collected two of the next three goals to make the ??? 6-5 until Ince finally scored...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Lacrosse Team Wins, 7-5, On Strong Defensive Play | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Through the Perón years, Frondizi was in open opposition, addressing furtive knots of anti-Perónistas in Buenos Aires streets. But his strength lay in mastery of political maneuver within the Radical Party. In 1956, after Pern fell, Frondizi split the party into two nearly equal segments-Intransigents and People's Radicals-and became the Intransigents' candidate for President. That he eventually won was largely owing to a shadowy political adviser named Rogelio Frigerio, a successful businessman (he owns a nationwide chain of dry-goods stores) who was once a Communist sympathizer, later cooperated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Ghost from the Past | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Davis, whose hobby is Polynesian anthropology, decided to sail from his home in New Zealand to Pern and test a thesis: That the route the raft "Kon-tiki" took from Peru to the Polynesian Islands was actually a two-way thoroughfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Bound Ketch Reported Safe After Rough Tropical Storm | 10/17/1952 | See Source »

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