Anne McCaffrey bibliography


This is a list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Anne McCaffrey, including some cowritten with others or written by close collaborators.

Restoree

McCaffrey's first novel was Restoree, published by Ballantine Books in 1967.

Federated Sentient Planets universe

Several of McCaffrey's series and more than half her books share as background a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets" or "Federation" or "FSP".

Dragonriders of Pern series

McCaffrey's most famous works are the Dragonriders of Pern series.

Short stories and novellas

  • "Weyr Search", Analog Magazine, October 1967
  • "Dragonrider", Analog Magazine – two parts, December 1967/January 1968
  • "The Smallest Dragonboy", Science Fiction Tales edited by Roger Elwood reprinted in A Gift of Dragons, and Get Off The Unicorn.
  • "A Time When", N.E.S.F.A. Press, hardcover limited edition printed for guest of honor appearance at Boskone 1975
  • "Rescue Run", Analog Magazine, Aug.1991
  • "The P.E.R.N. Survey", Amazing Magazine, Sept.1993
  • "The Dolphin's Bell", published as a limited edition, leatherbound book by The Wildside Press, 1993
  • "The Girl Who Heard Dragons", originally published as a Tor Book by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, in 1994 and in A Gift of Dragons, also Cheap Street Press, 1986
  • "Runner of Pern", Legends, an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg
  • "Ever the Twain", A Gift of Dragons
  • "Beyond Between", Legends II: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, edited by Robert Silverberg

Books

or Dragonseye The Masterharper of Pern

The Brain & Brawn Ship series

The Brain & Brawn Ship series comprises seven novels. Only the first was written by Anne McCaffrey alone, a fix-up of five previously published stories.
The Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books, as Brainship–Brawn pairings were characters in the second and third volumes of that series.The Ship Who Sang PartnerShip with Margaret Ball, The Ship Who Searched with Mercedes Lackey, The City Who Fought with S. M. Stirling, The Ship Who Won with Jody Lynn Nye,
This series also includes solo entries by Stirling and Nye:The Ship Errant by Jody Lynn Nye, The Ship Avenged by S. M. Stirling,
All but the first were issued in omnibus editions of two as Brain Ships ; The Ship Who Saved the Worlds ; The City and the Ship.

The Crystal series

The Crystal series, as catalogued by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database under the name Crystal Universe, comprises five novels published from 1982 and four earlier short stories that were a basis for the first book, The Crystal Singer. Three of the novels compose the Crystal trilogy, or Crystal Singer trilogy after the first of them.
Omnibus editions were published as The Crystal Singer Trilogy and The Crystal Singer Omnibus.
ISFDB catalogues two other novels as "Crystal Universe" books.The Coelura
  • ''Nimisha's Ship''

Ireta

The Ireta series, as catalogued by ISFDB, comprises five novels, two "Dinosaur Planets" by Anne McCaffrey 1978 and 1984, and three "Planet Pirates" written with co-authors in the 1990s.
They share a fictional premise and some characters. The events of Dinosaur Planet overlap with the final chapters of The Death of Sleep, as does Dinosaur Planet Survivors with Sassinak; Generation Warriors continues and concludes the storylines of both series.

The Dinosaur Planet series

When the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team reached the planet Ireta, dinosaurs were not what they expected to find.Dinosaur Planet Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Omnibus editions have been issued under the titles The Ireta Adventure, The Dinosaur Planet Omnibus, and The Mystery of Ireta.

The Planet Pirates trilogy

All is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the spacelanes. In this series, survivors on Ireta and survivors of space pirate attacks join forces.Sassinak with Elizabeth Moon, The Death of Sleep with Jody Lynn Nye, Generation Warriors with Elizabeth Moon,
Omnibus edition: The Planet Pirates.

The Talents universe

"The Talents Universe", as catalogued by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, comprises two series. They share one fictional premise. Eight books, all by Anne McCaffrey alone, are rooted in her second story and three stories published in 1969.

The Talent series

To Ride Pegasus Pegasus in Flight

The Tower and Hive series

The Rowan Damia Damia's Children Lyon's Pride

Doona

Decision at Doona Crisis on Doona with Jody Lynn Nye, Treaty at Doona with Jody Lynn Nye,
Omnibus edition of the latter two: Doona.

Petaybee universe

The Petaybee universe comprises two trilogies by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Powers trilogy

Powers That Be with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Power Lines with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Power Play with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,

The Twins of Petaybee series

Changelings with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Maelstrom with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Deluge with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,

The Barque Cat series

This duology is a collaboration between Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough that introduces a new universe with Barque Cats and their special telepathically linked humans.

The Freedom series

The Freedom series or "Catteni Sequence" comprises one 1970 short story and four Freedom novels written 1995 to 2002.Freedom's Landing Freedom's Choice Freedom's Challenge
  • ''Freedom's Ransom''

Acorna universe

The "Acorna Universe series" comprises ten novels published 1997 to 2007, seven sometimes called Acorna and three sometimes called Acorna's Children. The first two were written by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball, the rest by McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.

Acorna series

Acorna: The Unicorn Girl with Margaret Ball, Acorna's Quest with Margaret Ball, Acorna's People with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's World with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's Search with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's Rebels with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's Triumph with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,

Acorna's Children series

First Warning with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Second Wave with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Third Watch with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,

Short story collections

Get Off the Unicorn

Romances

The Mark of Merlin Ring of Fear The Kilternan Legacy Stitch in Snow The Year of the Lucy The Lady
Three Women contains the first three listed in an omnibus edition.

Children's books

An Exchange of Gifts No One Noticed the Cat If Wishes Were Horses Black Horses for the King – Arthurian historical novel

Anthologies

  • Alchemy and Academe
  • Space Opera with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough,

Nonfiction

Cookbooks

Cooking Out of This World, edited by A.M.; revised 1992, Serve it Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey, edited with John Betancourt,

Dragons

A Diversity of Dragons, by A.M. and Richard Woods, illustrated by John Howe, Atheneum Books, – ISFDB says, "Cataloged as fiction by the Library of Congress even though it's part non-fiction and part art book."