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Anne McCaffrey was one of the world’s leading science fiction writers, and the first female science fiction writer to achieve New York Times bestseller status. She won both the Hugo and Nebula awards as well as the Margaret A. Edwards’ Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. She was deeply honoured to have been made a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2005, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Born and raised in the US and of Irish extraction, she moved to Ireland in 1970 where she lived in the ‘Garden of Ireland’, County Wicklow, until her death in 2011 at the age of eighty-five. She is the creator of the Dragonriders of Pern® series.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, winner of the Nebula Award for The Healer's War, is the author of numerous fantasy and science fiction novels. She coauthored more than 15 books with Anne McCaffrey, including the bestselling Petaybee series and Arcona series. Scarborough lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.