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Portrait of Anne McCaffrey Photo: David Cooper/Toronto Star via Getty Images (1980)

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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...

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Ambrose Chitterwick

Gender: Male

A very different detective hero: a mild-eyed, very discreet elderly English gentleman with a totally nondescript appearance. This doesn’t prevent amateur criminologist Ambrose Chitterwick – to the great annoyance of Scotland Yard’s top brass – from solving a handful really tricky murder cases in books by Anthony Berkeley (Cox). How he actually succeeds in achieving this is a mystery, not least for...

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