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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
Norah Mulcahaney
Gender: Female
Young, attractive police officer in New York, who already in Lillian O’Donnell’s second book about her marries her older colleague Joe Capretto. After she has had several miscarriages, they adopt a child, but soon afterwards Norah Mulcahaney becomes a widow. She struggles on, however, and is promoted even though she breaks internal rules and in one instance even has her service weapon taken away.