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Monday, December 2, 2013

Did you know that in McCaffrey's became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award?

Did you know that Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series?

Did you know that  in McCaffrey's became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award?

Did you know that the Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year?


Did you know that the Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious science fiction awards, and has been termed as "among the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing"?[1

Did you know that McCaffrey died from a stroke she was 85?

Did you know that McCaffrey  novel The White Dragon in 1978 became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list?
 
Did you know that in 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction?[3][4]

Did you know that McCaffrey was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame 17 June 2006?[5][6][7]











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