Just finished up one McCaffrey's short story collections for this afternoon, and this one is called "Get off the Unicorn".
A pretty nice collection of short stories and some novellas; fourteen in all. A big portion of these stories come from the sixties and 70s, but one of the stories, "Lady in the Tower", dates back to 1959.
There are also some thoughts provided by McCaffrey about how each of these stories came to be. Especially one about a story, "Changeling", that she initially submitted to Harlan Ellison for Dangerous Visions.
Some of the stories are also part of some of her series like Dragon Riders of Pern and the Ship series. A lot of SF with a little bit of Fantasy, in this case science-fantasy. The stories are highly dramatic, along with a bit of humor tossed in there too.
"Lady in the Tower", "Finder's Keeper", "Honeymoon" and "The Smallest Dragon Boy" are the favorites for me here. This could be a pretty good introduction for anyone interested in McCaffrey's work. And this'll probably do it for McCaffrey now, until I get to the first Pern book, but now it's time for two books, one by Heinlein and one by Zelazny, that are in need of my attention!
by i-the-muso-1968