In the Brain and Brawn series of novels series by Anne McCaffrey and others, beginning with The Ship Who Sang, a " brainship " is a human body, usually one that could not develop normally, encased in the strongest materials available in that universe, and mentally connected to the controls of a spacecraft.

* Anne McCaffrey wrote short stories and novels known as The Ship Series ( 1961 -) where otherwise crippled humans live on as the brains of starships and large space stations.

Fantasy is closely associated with science fiction, and many writers have worked in both genres, while writers such as Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Marion Zimmer Bradley have written works that appear to blur the boundary between the two related genres.

Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.

** Anne McCaffrey, American author ( d. 2011 )

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* “ Drift ” in Space Opera ( 1996, edited by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough )

* Damia ( novel ) ( 1992 ) by Anne McCaffrey

* Botany — An Earth-like agricultural world to which prisoners and slaves are transported in the Catteni Series by Anne McCaffrey.

* Petaybee — A living planet, becoming sentient, in Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Petaybee Series.

* 2006: George Lucas ; Frank Herbert ; Frank Kelly Freas ; Anne McCaffrey

Pern is a fictional planet created by Anne McCaffrey for the Dragonriders of Pern series of science fiction books.

Anne McCaffrey uses clothing ensignia throughout the Pern Chronicles to identify role and rank of different individuals.

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Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967.

Beginning 2003, her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels, both solo and jointly with Anne.

Anne McCaffrey once requested reading the works in the order they were written.

* Dragonflight 1968, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1968 ; composed in part of McCaffrey's first two Pern novellas, Weyr Search and Dragonrider, originally published in 1967 )

* Dragonquest 1970, by Anne McCaffrey.

* The White Dragon 1978, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1978 ; although published prior to Dragondrums, The White Dragon continues the adventures of certain Dragondrums characters ; McCaffrey recommends reading Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums before The White Dragon ; The White Dragon incorporates McCaffrey's story " A Time When ")

* Dragonsong ( 1976 ), by Anne McCaffrey

* Dragonsinger ( 1977 ), by Anne McCaffrey

* Dragondrums ( 1979 ), by Anne McCaffrey

* Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1983 ; both this and Nerilka's Story are set at the end of the Sixth Pass, centuries before the events in Dragonflight )

The book is dedicated to King's wife Tabitha and her sisters: " This book is dedicated, with love and admiration, to six good women: Margaret Spruce Morehouse, Catherine Spruce Graves, Stephanie Spruce Leonard, Anne Spruce Labree, Tabitha Spruce King, Marcella Spruce.

Queen Anne subscribed to the building of the parish church on Kew Green, which was dedicated to St Anne in 1714, three months before the queen's death.

In the centre of the bridge stood the chapel of St Anne ( dedicated in 1436 ): the dedication was attributed to the town chapel by Dr Oliver and it has since been adopted, displacing that to St Mary.

An early wooden bridge over the Looe river was in place by 1411 this burned down and was replaced by the first stone bridge, completed in 1436 and featuring a chapel dedicated to St Anne in the middle ( the current bridge, a seven-arched Victorian bridge, was opened in 1853 ).

The parish church in the town is dedicated to Saint Anne and belongs to the Diocese of Koper.

The church dedicated to St. Anne was built in 1784 in the place of the old monastery church.

It was followed by a Poem on the Last Day ( 1713 ), dedicated to Queen Anne ; The Force of Religion: or Vanquished Love ( 1714 ), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury ; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne ( 1714 ), in which he rushed to praise the new king.

On the left aisle, there is the tomb of the Bishop of Lecce Archbishop Francesco Minerva ( 1904 – 2004 ) following three chapels: one containing the relics, chalices, crucifixes, and a silver bust of the saint enclosed by an iron grating, and the other dedicated to St. Anthony ( but with canvas representing St. Francis of Assisi ), the third devoted to St. Anne.

They begin in August 21 and are dedicated to Saint Joachim and Saint Anne.

Alternatively, it might be that as the church is dedicated to Saint Anne, the village took its name from the church-" St Anne's croft ".

In 1873 the Cliftons built a chapel of ease dedicated to St Anne in this area, to encourage better religious observance, as most inhabitants found the long journey to St Cuthbert's in Lytham too onerous.

Soon after their arrival, his troops erected Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit and a church dedicated to Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary.

* In 2000, Eureka College dedicated the Reagan Peace Garden with a gift from central Illinois philanthropists Anne and David Vaughan to commemorate his important commencement speech at Eureka College in which Reagan called for nuclear arms reductions between the Soviet Union and the United States.

The Mary Anne Foundation dedicated the Loret Miller Ruppe Ambassador for Peace Award " to tap into the original and creative thinking of the young, regarding the issues of conflict resolution, forgiveness and reconciliation.

* Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore A site dedicated to the actors Anne Stallybrass and Peter Gilmore

The church in the village is dedicated to St. Anne and dates from the 15th century.

The committee established a Franklin K. Lane Memorial Fund, initially dedicated to the support of Lane's widow, Anne Lane, and upon her death to be used to promote causes in which her husband believed.

A second church in the settlement is dedicated to Saint Anne.

He donated a kidney to Anne in February 2004, shortly before becoming involved with SBVT ; the book Unfit for Command is dedicated to her.

Dean Cogan mentions the holy well dedicated to St. Anne.