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Sample of authors
McCaffrey, Anne
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF (science fiction) and fantasy. That applies primarily to the books about the planet Pern, situated in another solar system. The stories in these include space ships, advanced technology and journeys between different planets, and the author herself called them SF. But they...
Literary figures
Richard Thornhill
Gender: Male
An experienced police detective who works in the fictive town of Lydmouth in the middle of the last century. He is married to Edith and they have two children, but he is not really happy with either the town or the marriage. When Richard Thornhill meets journalist Jill Francis, they start a relationship, at the same time that they – each on their own, but sometimes together – investigate a ser...