Anne Inez McCaffrey was the first woman in science fiction/fantasy to win the Hugo and the Nebula Awards in the same year, cementing her place in fannish and feminist history. ….I’ve been in Pern fandom almost fifteen years, and I’ve seen the best and worst of it. Her legal team sent me a C&D for running a Pern RPG when I was thirteen. I’ll never forget it - I came home from my Bat Mitzvah in Paris to find the email sitting in my inbox. And I was lucky, because I took down the site right away and they stopped pursuing me. ….Perhaps her strangest, most enduring and necessary legacy to fandom is the Organization for Transformative Works. I have no doubt that when naominovak gave the seed money to start the group, the former PernMUSH wizard thought of McCaffrey’s campaigns against fandom amongst others.

In the end, all of Ramoth’s golden daughters flew away and founded Weyrs of their Own. Allowing people to write Pern fanfic and play on Pern RPGs and books aimed for children hasn’t brought them back. They win Hugos and Nebulas, they work for Blizzard and Ubisoft and they’ve all left Pern far behind them.

skywaterblue. The Long, Strange Legacy of Anne McCaffrey; WebCite, posted to Dreamwidth November 22, 2011.