Vonda N. McIntyre

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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: 3.94 · 64,840 ratings · 3,429 reviews · 159 distinct works • Similar authors
Dreamsnake
3.88 avg rating — 11,303 ratings — published 1978 — 54 editions
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The Crystal Star
3.09 avg rating — 8,786 ratings — published 1994 — 39 editions
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The Wrath Of Khan (Star Tre...
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4.10 avg rating — 3,727 ratings — published 1982 — 31 editions
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The Entropy Effect (Star Tr...
3.70 avg rating — 2,710 ratings — published 1981 — 36 editions
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Enterprise: The First Adven...
3.67 avg rating — 2,573 ratings — published 1986 — 20 editions
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The Search for Spock (Star ...
3.92 avg rating — 2,224 ratings — published 1984 — 34 editions
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The Moon and the Sun
3.62 avg rating — 2,320 ratings — published 1997 — 49 editions
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Ho...
3.97 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 1986 — 31 editions
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Starfarers (Starfarers #1)
3.56 avg rating — 572 ratings — published 1989 — 18 editions
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The Exile Waiting
3.65 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 1975 — 18 editions
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Series by Vonda N. McIntyre

The Wrath Of Khan The Entropy Effect The Search for Spock Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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“They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
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“Theories aren’t the same when you actually have to start using them.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake
tags: theories, theory
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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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