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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 )
* November 21 – Anne McCaffrey, American writer ( b. 1926 )
* “ 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.
* 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 )

Anne and once
For once Cady Partlow wished Anne would yell at him so he could yell back.
The death of William III in 1702 once again created a political upheaval as the king was replaced by Queen Anne, who immediately began her offensive against Nonconformists.
On 16 May 1880 Eliot courted controversy once more by marrying a man twenty years younger than herself, and again changing her name, this time to Mary Anne Cross.
Louis and Charles were also first cousins once removed, Louis's grandmother, Anne of Austria, being sister of Charles's father, Philip IV of Spain.
On 28 July 1683 in the Chapel Royal, Anne married the Protestant Prince George of Denmark, brother of King Christian V of Denmark ( and her second cousin once removed through Frederick II ).
" On 19 December, Anne returned to London, where she was at once visited by her brother-in-law William, and James fled to France on the 22nd.
Mary visited her, but instead of offering comfort took the opportunity to berate Anne once again for her friendship with Sarah.
Psyche was only once in Switzerland as guests of Anne Clark in 1991, and this led to further surprises for Psyche as the year went on.
Under Anne, the Royal Collection began once more to expand, a policy continued by Anne's son Charles.
Anne Hathaway's Cottage, once the home of Anne Hathaway ( Shakespeare ) | Shakespeare's wife's family.
There are also " set dances " which go through only once that often consist of a sequence of non-repeating figures that last much longer than normal times through ( e. g. Bonnie Anne ( 96 bars ), MacDonald of Sleat ( 128 bars )).
Anne Tyler once compared Taylor to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen -- " soul sisters all ," in Tyler's words.
James's forces – once again commanded by Lord Feversham – moved to Salisbury, but few of its senior officers were eager to fight – even Princess Anne wrote to William to wish him " good success in this so just an undertaking.
* Karan won the Coty American Fashion Critics ’ Award in 1977 and once again in 1982 ( together with Louis Dell ’ Ollio for Anne Klein ).
Queen Anne style mansions along Edgerton's Washington Street testify to the wealth and prominence some merchants once had.
The 1697 Molitor Stradivarius, once rumored to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte ( it did belong to a general in his army, Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor ), sold for $ 3, 600, 000 in 2010 at Tarisio Auctions, then a new world record, to violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
Charles married Anne Lee ( 1 December 1770-9 September 1804 ), his second cousin and the daughter of Richard Henry Lee ( his first cousin once removed ) in 1789.
Through his mother Anne ( 1917 – 1980 ), he was a first cousin, once removed, of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, his mother having been a niece of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother.
James was a known womanizer who kept many mistresses, for which Anne often gave him a hard time, once even complaining to the king, who was forced to send one of James ' mistresses to the countryside, where she remained until her death.
Guest panellists, substituting for regulars, included Alfred Marks, Barry Took, John Wells ( once in 1973, filling in for Muir ; once in 1975, for Norden ), and Katharine Whitehorn ( once in 1975, for Anne Scott-James ).
" His title, Comte de la Fère, while invented, is tied to the domains of La Fère which were once owned by Anne of Austria, Queen of France in these novels and in the historical period in which they are set.

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