Editing Anne McCaffrey (section)

=== {{anchor|Pern forever}}Collaborations ===
McCaffrey said of her collaborations with son [[Todd McCaffrey]] and [[Elizabeth Ann Scarborough]], "While I would dearly love to have the energy to tell a tale all on my own, I really cannot say that I am not ably represented with my collaborations". In the Pern collaboration with Todd, she was mainly "making suggestions or being a sounding board".<ref name="letter" /> McCaffrey also gave Todd and his sister Gigi permission to write their own stories set in the Pern universe.{{sfn|''Locus''|2004}}

McCaffrey collaborated with author [[Mercedes Lackey]] to write ''The Ship Who Searched'', the third of seven books in the Brain & Brawn Ship series by McCaffrey and four other authors. She wrote two books in the ''[[Planet Pirates]]'' trilogy with [[Elizabeth Moon]]