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Todd McCaffrey

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in Montclair, New Jersey, The United States

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Todd J. McCaffrey (born as Todd Johnson) is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.

Todd Johnson was born 27 April 1956 in Montclair, New Jersey as the second son and middle child of Horace Wright Johnson (deceased 2009), who worked for DuPont, and Anne McCaffrey (deceased 2011), who had her second short story published that year. He has two siblings: Alec Anthony, born 1952, and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959.

Except for a six-month DuPont transfer to Dusseldorf, Germany, the family lived most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware, until a 1965 transfer to New York City when they moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island. Al ...more

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	Dragonheart (Pern, #20) 4.17 avg rating — 14,115 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragonsblood (Pern, #17) by Todd McCaffrey (Goodreads Author), Anne McCaffrey (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 9,812 ratings — published 2005 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragongirl (Pern, #21) 4.07 avg rating — 6,454 ratings — published 2010 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey by Todd McCaffrey (Goodreads Author), Anne McCaffrey 4.29 avg rating — 2,297 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern 4.24 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Wyvern (Twin Souls #1) by Todd McCaffrey (Goodreads Author), Brittany Winner (Goodreads Author), Winner Twins (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 642 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raw Space (Canaris Rift Book 1) 4.22 avg rating — 320 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cody's War: Flight Of The Hope 4.53 avg rating — 279 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L.A. Witch: Birthday 4.34 avg rating — 242 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragonheart: Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern 4.57 avg rating — 178 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every day is a test,” Cisca replied soberly. “But we’ll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing.”
― Todd J. McCaffrey, Dragonheart

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“Bertrand Russell where he declared, “I would rather be mad with the truth than sane with lies.”
― Todd J. McCaffrey, Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern

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“Always, in the end, only we can answer our own questions”
― Todd McCaffrey, Dragon's Time

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“Every day is a test,” Cisca replied soberly. “But we’ll never learn new ways of doing things if we insist on telling everyone what they should be doing.”
― Todd J. McCaffrey, Dragonheart

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“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth.”
― Roger Moorhouse, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II

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“I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“When you’re dead it’s really hard to argue that you were careful.”
― Talla Hill, Ghost Tear

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“Justice is a balancing act between competing objectives: retribution (making the criminal pay); reparation (compensating the victim); rehabilitation (reforming the criminal); deterrence (protecting society as a whole); and vindication (applying the law so the law is respected).”
― Frank Trentmann, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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