McCaffrey, Todd
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Todd Johnson (1956- ), US computer programmer and author, son of Anne McCaffrey, and brother of Gigi McCaffrey; best known for his collaborations with his mother on later volumes of the multi-generation Pern sequence. Earlier, as Johnson, he began publishing as a Sharecropper, with Combat Command #4: In the World of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers: Slammers Down! (1988), a Tie to the Combat Command Gamebook franchise and to David Drake's Hammer's Slammers universe. He began to publish work using his mother's maiden surname with Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey (1999), an affectionate memoir of his mother; and moved from there into Pern proper, collaborating with his mother on several late instalments, beginning with Dragon's Kin (2003) with Anne McCaffrey, and publishing a solo volume in the sequence, Dragonsblood (2005). [JC]
Todd Johnson
born Montclair, New Jersey: 27 April 1956
works
series
Pern
- Dragon's Kin (London: Bantam Press, 2003) with Anne McCaffrey [Pern: hb/Les Edwards]
- Dragonsblood (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2005) [Pern: hb/David Stevenson]
- Dragon's Fire (London: Bantam Press, 2006) with Anne McCaffrey [Pern: hb/Les Edwards]
- Dragon Harper (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2007) with Anne McCaffrey [Pern: hb/Paul Youll]
- Dragonheart (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2008) [hb/Les Edwards]
- Dragongirl (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2010) [hb/Les Edwards]
- Dragon's Time (London: Bantam Press, 2011) with Anne McCaffrey [Pern: hb/Les Edwards]
- Sky Dragons (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2012) with Anne McCaffrey [Pern: hb/Les Edwards]
non-Pern titles
- Combat Command #4: In the World of David Drake's Hammer's Slammers: Slammers Down! (New York: Ace Books, 1988) as Todd Johnson [tie to David Drake's Hammer's Slammers: in the publisher's Combat Command Gamebook series: pb/Don Dixon]
- City of Angels (Los Angeles, California: Foxxe Frey Books, 2012) [pb/Todd McCaffrey]
- The Jupiter Game (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2017) [pb/]
collections
- The One Tree of Luna and Other Stories (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2012) [coll: pb/]
- Six (Los Angeles, California: Foxxe Frey Books, 2012) [coll: pb/Todd McCaffrey]
nonfiction
- Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (So Far) of Anne McCaffrey (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1999) [nonfiction: Anne McCaffrey: hb/Rowena Morrill]
- Dragonholder: The Life and Times of Anne McCaffrey (3rd Edition) (Los Angeles, California: Foxxe Frey, 1999) [nonfiction: Anne McCaffrey: hb/]
- Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern (Dallas, Texas: Ben Bella/Smart Pop, 1999) [nonfiction: anth: Anne McCaffrey: Pern: pb/Michael Whelan]
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