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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
Henk Grijpstra
Gender: Male
Grijpstra is a middle-aged detective in Amsterdam who has teamed up with detective Rinus de Gier in a string of police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Grijpstra hails from Friesland. He is an unhappily married man who wanted to become a jazz musician or artist as a young man. He consoles himself by playing a set of drums that mysteriously appeared at the police headquarters one day.