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    ...just something I was noticing as I re-read "Abroad" Aunt Annie has some disturbing similarities to the Grand Dame of science fiction herself, Anne McCaffery.

    *They have the same name (just different spellings)
    *They are transplanted Americans living in Ireland
    *They own a riding stable and keep their own horses
    *They had divorces and no-one really talks about their former husbands
    *They both have two sons and a daughter
    *Both have sons named Alec and Todd (page 37 of Abroad)
    *Both are wizards (Aunt Annie in the literal meaning; Anne McCaffery with words on a page)

    Coincidence? Authorial intent? Crazed reader with an over-active imagination? You tell me.

    Je ne connait pas la peur. -Oui... tu aura peur, tu aura peur.
    -Star Wars
    it's so easy to laugh at yourself when all those jokes have already been written...
    who're you fooling if the fools are right?
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      (polite cough) Annie the dog.
      You completely lost me there, Rysade.

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        You have hit it right on the nose there. Yes, Diane has worked Anne McCaffrey into her novels - now if she just had a way to have her breeding dragons, instead of horses... <grin>

        Diane herself (and her spouse)have also been worked into other writers' works - the Star Trek novel "How much for just the planet?" by John M. Ford features the rousing tale of "Princess DeeDee the First" - a lovely woman with curly hair and bright eyes (good description) - and her suitor "Pete Blackwood".

        Quite a bit of the fun of reading her novels is to see what she's going to slip in next...

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            Diane herself (and her spouse)have also been worked into other writers' works - the Star Trek novel "How much for just the planet?" by John M. Ford features the rousing tale of "Princess DeeDee the First" - a lovely woman with curly hair and bright eyes (good description) - and her suitor "Pete Blackwood".

            Quite a bit of the fun of reading her novels is to see what she's going to slip in next...
            I should have mentioned that the above storyline is only part of a larger plot in the book - it's not the sole center of the above novel.

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                The moment I encountered 'Annie' I started to howl. I just +knew+.

                I went into the section for this book specifically to see if this question had come up, and to post it if not.

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                • #9
                  I noticed,Aunt Annie lives in County Wicklow, and if I'm correct, so does Anne McCaffrey

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