Vonda N. McIntyre

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born

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

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female

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http://www.vondanmcintyre.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Vonda Neel McIntyre is a U.S. science fiction author. She is 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 Enterpri...more

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Books by Vonda N. McIntyre

Average rating: 3.49 · 8,775 ratings · 462 reviews · 65 distinct works

	The Crystal Star 2.95 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Dreamsnake 3.82 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 1978 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Wrath of Khan (Star Trek 2) by Vonda N. McIntyre, Harve Bennett 3.77 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Enterprise 3.56 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1986 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Entropy Effect (Star Trek, #2) 3.44 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 1981 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Star Trek #17) by Vonda N. McIntyre, Harve Bennett 3.52 avg rating — 419 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 3.63 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre, Gary Halsey (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Starfarers 3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Transition 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1990	My rating:

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Series by Vonda N. McIntyre

Star Trek Classic Series (Heyne) (1 book)
by Vonda N. McIntyre, Harve Bennett

3.77 avg rating — 560 ratings

Starfarers (5 books)
by Vonda N. McIntyre

3.67 avg rating — 323 ratings

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Which of the following Joint Winners of the Hugo and Nebula should we read for our March Sci-Fi Theme book?

The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon

62 votes, 19.7%

Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis

60 votes, 19.0%

Ringworld, by Larry Niven

49 votes, 15.6%

Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card

36 votes, 11.4%

The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman

34 votes, 10.8%

Gateway, by Frederik Pohl

18 votes, 5.7%

Dreamsnake, by Vonda N. McIntyre

15 votes, 4.8%

The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke

15 votes, 4.8%

Startide Rising, by David Brin

12 votes, 3.8%

Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke

12 votes, 3.8%

Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman

2 votes, 0.6%

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