Cooking Out of This World

by Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey's cookbook, featuring real (you can cook them) recipes created by science fiction and fantasy writers such as Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avram Davidson and of course Anne McCaffrey herself. Mixed in with the recipes are stories and anecdotes about how they were created - some longer than the recipes!

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, Weyr Search, 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, Dragonrider, 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list.
In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007.

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a small collection of recipe books and books on food in history so I got this as a whimsical addition as it was a recipe book created by science fiction authors. It is a lovely little read, there are some good recipes, some awful recipes, some amusing asides and anecdotes. Originally published in 1973 it certainly has a very 70's feel, there is a lot of red meat, seafood, awful snacks and much booze, a delight for someone who was a teen in the 70's who had just been inducted into a lifetime passion for science fiction by a book called 'Have Spacesuit Will Travel'...

[Meredith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an interesting assortment of recipes.

[Dorian · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up in a second-hand shop, because I like cookbooks, and books about cooking (which is not the same thing), and science fiction. And this is a book of recipes and cooking-related anecdotes by science fiction writers. It is a bit odd, and very much of its time (first published 1973) in some ways, and I don't much fancy most of the recipes. But I treasure it for its oddness, and its weird psychedelic cover art.

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[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

I registered a book at BookCrossing.com!
http://www.BookCrossing.com/journal/12869514
nice cookbook from sci-fi authors!