 McCaffrey was widely quoted as saying that "Restoree" was intended as a "jab" at how women were usually portrayed in science fiction.Several of McCaffrey's series (and more than half her books) are set in a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets" ("Federation" or "FSP").Although Pern's history is connected to the Federation, McCaffrey only used it as a backdrop for storytelling and did not consider her different "worlds" to be part of the same universe.