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Vonda N. McIntyre


Born
in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States
August 28, 1948

Died
April 01, 2019

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Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Vonda Neel McIntyre was a U.S. science fiction author. She was one of the first successful graduates of the Clarion Science fiction writers workshop. She attended the workshop in 1970. By 1973 she had won her first Nebula Award, for the novelette "Of Mist, and Grass and Sand." This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The novelette and novel both concern a female healer in a desolate primitivized venue. McIntyre's debut novel was The Exile Waiting which was published in 1975. Her novel Dreamsnake won the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for best novel in 1978 and her novel The Moon and the Sun won the Nebula in 1997. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterp ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 62,129 ratings · 3,107 reviews · 149 distinct works • Similar authors
Dreamsnake
3.87 avg rating — 10,811 ratings — published 1978 — 52 editions
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Star Wars: The Crystal Star
3.08 avg rating — 8,562 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions
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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of ...
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4.09 avg rating — 3,611 ratings — published 1982 — 32 editions
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The Entropy Effect (Star Tr...
3.68 avg rating — 2,552 ratings — published 1981 — 34 editions
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Enterprise: The First Adven...
3.67 avg rating — 2,495 ratings — published 1986 — 40 editions
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Star Trek III: The Search f...
3.91 avg rating — 2,149 ratings — published 1984 — 15 editions
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The Moon and the Sun
3.62 avg rating — 2,246 ratings — published 1997 — 49 editions
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Ho...
3.96 avg rating — 1,726 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions
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Starfarers (Starfarers #1)
3.54 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions
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The Exile Waiting
3.64 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 1975 — 28 editions
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“They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
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“Pick something else".
For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.”
― Vonda M. McIntyre
tags: sci-fi, screwtop, women-of-wonder
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“The patterns the whales used for communication, the three-dimensional shapes, as transparent to sound as solid objects, could express any concept. Any concept except, perhaps, vacuum, infinity, nothingness so complete it would never become anything. The nearest way she could try to describe it was with silence.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Superluminal
tags: communication, conceptual-thinking, whalesong
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