This is the first book in Anne McCaffrey's dragons of Pern trilogy. Last time I read these, MTV did not yet exist. Carter was still president and the Not Ready for Primetime Players were still on SNL.

How feminism and debates about women riding horses helped produce first, horse-girl stories, and then dragon-babe fiction.

Book cover design for “The Many Lives of Anne Frank” by Ruth Franklin The last known photograph of Anne taken in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding. When she was a ...

The American author has published eight solo novels throughout the past decade ... and he soon became a fan of authors like Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, Melanie Rawn, and Orson Scott ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own. By Mac Barnett For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in ...

Christian McCaffrey's mother Lisa expressed pride after her younger son Luke advanced to the Divisional Round. On Sunday night, the Washington Commanders defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the ...

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.