History Creator / AnneMcCaffrey

* RescueSex: In "The Thorns of Barevi", which [=McCaffrey=] wrote as a ... profit-seeking experiment with fantasy softcore, a young woman and a male HumanAlien evade pursuers with the help of the eponymous plants, then have sex.

As is common with many of the writers who arrived early to the science fiction genre, quite a lot of the tropes she explored for the first time in her writing have since been used ''ad naseaum'' [[OnceOriginalNowCommon by subsequent writing]]. For instance, telepathically bonded animals and CatFolk were very new ideas when she began those series.

As is common with many of the writers who arrived early to the science fiction genre, quite a lot of the tropes she explored for the first time in her writing have since been used ''ad naseaum'' [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny by subsequent writing]]. For instance, telepathically bonded animals and CatFolk were very new ideas when she began those series.

* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: In the short story "Horse From A Different Sea", a small town doctor notices that a large number of his male patients are having odd symptoms like nausea, weight gain and unusual cravings. The men have nothing in common but visiting a "house of ill-repute". After running every test he could think of the doctor finds out the men are pregnant and that the "ladies" have vanished along with the house they were in.

* MisterSeahorse: A short story in which an alien prostitute impregnates half the male population of a small town. The title, "Literature/AHorseFromADifferentSea", references the seahorse analogy.

* {{Demythification}}: ''Black Horses for the King'' is a demythification of Myth/KingArthur, told from the viewpoint of a stable boy.

* MemorialCharacter: Nearly every series by Anne [=McCaffrey=] includes a character whose name is somehow based on the name John Greene. The character Jayge in the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series is one example. According to the official biography written by her son Todd, John Greene was a family friend who was murdered, and this is Anne's way of giving him extra lives to make up for the one he lost.

Her writing--starting with the short novel ''Restoree''--was lauded for its groundbreaking feminist attitudes. These may seem extremely subtle to young readers, but simply having a female protagonist in a science fiction story was [[FairForItsDay novel at the time]]. Throughout her writing since, her female characters have become even more powerful and independent, [[SocietyMarchesOn proportional to the expectations of her audience]].

* '''Literature/CrystalSinger''' (three novels). Set vaguely in ''Literature/TheShipWho...'' universe, though the former series does not mention the latter.

* '''"Literature/TheShipWho..."''' (Five books, including one each in collaboration with Margaret Ball, Creator/MercedesLackey, Jody Lynn Nye, and Creator/SMStirling)

[=McCaffrey=] became almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding gay people as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any gay activity, particularly [[RapeAndSwitch anal penetration]], will make a man [[SuddenlySexuality instantly and irretrievably gay]] (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously [[NoBisexuals exclusively]] gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a LastMinuteHookUp with a female main character -- [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds can't leave anyone single]], after all. Despite this, she has written at least two short stories involving [[MisterSeahorse men becoming pregnant]], though both involve alien/fantastical females doing the impregnation: "Babes In The Woods" from her ''Get Off the Unicorn'' collection and "A Horse From A Different Sea". She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, [[NewMediaAreEvil especially once the internet started taking off.]] This policy was relaxed later on.

[=McCaffrey=] became almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding gay people as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any gay activity, particularly [[RapeAndSwitch anal penetration]], will make a man [[SuddenlySexuality instantly and irretrievably gay]] (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously [[NoBisexuals exclusively]] gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a LastMinuteHookUp with a female main character -- [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds can't leave anyone single]], after all. Despite this, she has written at least two short stories involving [[MisterSeahorse men becoming pregnant]], though both involve alien/fantastical females doing the impregnation: "Babes In The Woods" from her ''Get of the Unicorn'' collection and "A Horse From A Different Sea". She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, [[NewMediaAreEvil especially once the internet started taking off.]] This policy was relaxed later on.

* MrSeahorse: A short story in which an alien prostitute impregnates half the male population of a small town. The title, "Literature/AHorseFromADifferentSea", references the seahorse analogy.

Anne [=McCaffrey=] (1st April 1926 - 21st November 2011) was a prolific sci-fi/fantasy writer of over one hundred novels, short stories and compilations. Best known for the Literature/DragonridersOfPern series, she also authored several other popular, long-running series. Those include:

[=McCaffrey=] became almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding homosexuality as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any homosexual activity, particularly [[RapeAndSwitch anal penetration]], will make a man [[SuddenlySexuality instantly and irretrievably gay]] (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously [[NoBisexuals exclusively]] gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a LastMinuteHookUp with a female main character -- [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds can't leave anyone single]], after all. Despite this, she has written at least two short stories involving [[MisterSeahorse men becoming pregnant]], though both involve alien/fantastical females doing the impregnation: "Babes In The Woods" from her ''Get of the Unicorn'' collection and "A Horse From A Different Sea". She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, [[NewMediaAreEvil especially once the internet started taking off.]] This policy was relaxed later on.

[=McCaffrey=] became almost as well known for her odd ideas regarding homosexuality as for her writing. In particular, she has stated a belief that any homosexual activity, particularly [[RapeAndSwitch anal penetration]], will make a man [[SuddenlySexuality instantly and irretrievably gay]] (an idea first put forth in the infamous, but still unverified, "Tent Peg" interview and implied in her on-the-record "Renewable Air Force" interview). Ironically, in the last book of the Talent series she turns a previously [[NoBisexuals exclusively]] gay character totally and apparently permanently straight for a LastMinuteHookUp with a female main character -- [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds can't leave anyone single]], after all. Despite this, she has written at least two short stories involving [[MisterSeahorse men becoming pregnant]], though both involve alien/fantastical females doing the impregnation: "Babes In The Woods" from her ''Get of the Unicorn'' collection and "A Horse From A Different Sea". She also was a rather adamant defender of copyright and had a tendency to sic lawyers after any gathering of fanworks published, [[NewMediaAreEvil especially once the internet started taking off.]] This policy was relaxed in recent years.

* ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive''' series