Writer Anne McCaffrey has died at her home in Ireland. The 85 year old author suffered a stroke on November 21, her publishers, Del Rey and Random House, announced.

Born in 1926, McCaffrey published her first novel, Restoree, in 1967 “as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s”, according to the biography on her website. She went on to write or co-write around a hundred books, including her world-famous Dragonriders of Pern series.

McCaffrey was a multiple award winner, becoming the first woman to receive a Hugo in 1968. She won the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2005.

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