Pilot, engineer, doctor--ship\'s cat? Since the early days of interstellar travel, the so-called Barque Cats have become essential to the well-staffed space vessel.
She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State..
She has co-authored ten other novels with Anne Mc Caffrey.
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, winner of the Nebula Award for her novel The Healer\'s War, is the author of numerous fantasy novels.
She died in 2011.
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, Mc Caffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill.
Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Grand Master.
She was also given the American Library Association\'s Margaret A.
She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards.
About the Author: Anne Mc Caffrey, one of the world\'s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern(R) series.
With the clock racing against them, a handful of very special kittens and their humans will join forces to save the Barque Cats, and quite possibly the universe as they know it, from total destruction.
Suddenly the galactic government announces a plan to impound and possibly destroy all exposed animals, including the Barque Cats.
But a widespread epidemic affecting livestock on numerous planets throws the felines\' future into doubt.
Assisted by humans--Cat Persons--with whom they share a deep and loving bond, the Barque Cats are responsible for keeping spacecraft free of vermin, for alerting crews to environmental hazards, and for acting as morale officers.
Pilot, engineer, doctor--ship\'s cat? Since the early days of interstellar travel, the so-called Barque Cats have become essential to the well-staffed space vessel
