Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) 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 ' and "The Entropy Effect". She wrote the novelizations of the films ', ', and '.

It was McIntyre who came up with Hikaru as the first name of the "Star Trek" character Mr. Sulu, which became canon after author Peter David, when visiting the set of "" (he authored the comic book adaptation), convinced director Nicholas Meyer to insert it into the script for that film. (Source: "The Comics Buyer's Guide" #1614 (March 2006); Page 10.)

Robert Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday "to ...Vonda, ...". [cite book | author=Heinlein, Robert A | title=Friday| publisher=New England Library | year=1984 | id=ISBN 0-450-05549-3]

Bibliography

Non-series novels

* "The Exile Waiting" (1975)
* "Dreamsnake" (1978)
* "Superluminal" (1983)
* "The Bride" (1985)
* "Barbary" (1986)
* "The Moon and the Sun" (1997)

tarfarers

* "Starfarers" (1989)
* "Transition" (1991)
* "Metaphase" (1992)
* "Nautilus" (1994)

tar Trek - The Original Series

* "The Entropy Effect" (1981), (Book 2)
* "Enterprise: The First Adventure" (1986)

tar Trek - Movies

* "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" (1982), (Book 7)
* "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (1984), (Book 17)
* "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986)
* "Duty, Honor, Redemption" (2004) (collection of the above three novelizations)

tar Wars

* "The Crystal Star" (1994)

Collection of Short Stories

* "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

hort Stories

* "Cages": "Quark/4" (1971)

* "Only at Night": "Clarion" (1971): "Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

* "The Galactic Clock": "Generation" (1972)

* "The Genius Freaks": "Orbit 12" (1973): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

* "Spectra": "Orbit 11" (1973): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

* "Wings": "The Alien Condition" (1973): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

* "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand": "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (October 1973): "Best SF of the Year 3" (1974): "Nebula Award Stories 9" (1974): "Women of Wonder" (1975): "Looking Ahead" (1975): "The Infinite Web" (1977): "The Best of Analog" (1978): "Dreamsnake" (1978): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979): "Arbor House Treasury of Modern SF" (1980): "Constellations" (1980): "The Analog Anthology #1" (1980): "The Road to Science Fiction #4" (1982): "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume IV" (1986): "6 Decades: The Best of Analog" (1986): "Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century" (1987): "The Best of the Nebulas" (1989)

* "Recourse, Inc.": "Alternities" (1974): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

* "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn": "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" (February 1974): "Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year" (1975): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979): "Norton Book of SF" (1993)

* "Screwtop" (Novella): "The Crystal Ship" (1976): "The New Women of Wonder" (1978): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979): "Screwtop / The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1989)

* "Thanatos": "Future Power" (1976)

* "The End's Beginning": "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (September 1976): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979)

* "Aztecs": "2076: The American Tricentennial" (1977): "Best SF of the Year 7" (1978): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979): "Nebula Winners 13" (1980)

* "The Serpent's Death": "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (February 1978): "Dreamsnake" (1978)

* "The Broken Dome": "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact" (March 1978): "Dreamsnake" (1978)

* "Fireflood": "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" (November 1979): "Fireflood and Other Stories" (1979): "Best SF of the Year 9" (1980)

* "Shadows, Moving": "Interfaces" (1980)

* "Elfleda": "New Dimensions 12" (1981): "Unicorns!" (1982)

* "Looking for Satan": "Shadows of Sanctuary" (1981): "Lythande" (1986)

* "The Straining Your Eyes Through the Viewscreen Blues": "Nebula Winners 15" (1981)

* "Transit": "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" (October 1983)

* "Malheur Maar": "Full Spectrum 2" (1989)

* "Steelcollar Worker": "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" (November 1992)

* "The Adventure of the Field Theorems": "Sherlock Holmes in Orbit" (1995)

* "The Sea Monster's Song": "Odyssey, Issue 1" (November/December 1997)

* "Little Faces": "The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.vondanmcintyre.com Vonda N. McIntyre Official Site]
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