Nerilka’s Story, by Anne McCaffrey (Ballantine/Del Rey, $3.95): McCaffrey tells an unusual love story as she focuses on one of the minor characters from her best-selling novel, Moreta ...

Anne McCaffrey dies at 85; award-winning fantasy fiction writer A free-form sculptor, John Chamberlain crafted works from masses of crushed cars and automobile sheet metal. He was 84.