Anne McCaffrey has died.
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/anne-mccaffrey-has-died_b42826
Her books had a lot of problematic elements to them, and I will never deny that.
Still, they formed the core of my adolescence, and I will never not love her for how she treated the military in her books — neither wholly good nor wholly evil, but the sum of the people within.
RIP, Dragonlady.