When authors pass away: Ann McCaffrey

I just found out Ann McCaffrey passed away Monday.

Sigh.

Met her at the very first science fiction convention I ever went to, at a small hotel in Niagara Falls in the mid-late 80's. Her later books did nothing for me, but the early Dragonrider novels have been reread countless times. Sure, there's continuity problems galore, and some of the themes, once you look at the series as a whole, are quite unexpected (women are strong characters until they find a man, then she becomes subordinate to him). But, that's just facts. These are my comfort books.

Time to reread Dragonsinger.