RIP

Anne McCaffrey

creator of the Pern books and the brainships. Influential with strong or interesting female leads.

Of course, she also wrote some slightly hinky romance novels way way back, the kind that left a slightly bad taste in my mouth (i.e. I don't think raping her his way is the best method to get her over the trauma of having been raped before). But I understand she was going through a turbulent relationship of her own, so maybe this was her way of working through it. And she did get over it.