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Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

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2019-06-15T02:32:50.000Z
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I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.

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