Posted on 04/02/2019 10:22:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
Award-winning Seattle science fiction author Vonda N. McIntyre died April 1, 2019, of pancreatic cancer. She was 70.
McIntyre wrote novels, short stories and media tie-in books, edited a groundbreaking anthology of feminist SF, and founded the Clarion West Writing Workshop. She won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards for her 1979 novel Dreamsnake, and won the Nebula again for her 1996 novel The Moon and the Sun. Her short stories were also nominated for awards. In media fiction, she will probably be most remembered as the author who gave Ensign Sulu a first name (Hikaru) in her Star Trek novel The Entropy Effect: that name was later written into one of the Star Trek films. With Susan Janice Anderson, McIntyre edited one of the first feminist science fiction anthologies (Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976). She was a participant in the Women in Science Fiction Symposium edited by Jeffrey D. Smith (Khatru #3/4, 1975 – reprinted with additional material as by Jeanne Gomoll, lulu.com, 2008) with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel R. Delany, James Tiptree Jr. and others. Her Nebula-winning fantasy novel The Moon and the Sun has been made into an as-yet-unreleased film, The King’s Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan. Much of the film was shot in Versailles, and McIntyre delighted in telling how kind Brosnan was to her when she visited the set.
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I had a ham sandwich for lunch.
“I had a ham sandwich for lunch.”
That’s interesting! I made croissants this morning and for lunch I’m making them into ham sandwiches with Havarti cheese!
A good writer, I’ve read many of her books. RIP.
She entertained millions with some well-written prose. You had a snark at her obituary.
I know how I’d rather be remembered.
Oh Donald, I’ve been a science fiction reader for about 48 years and I’ve never heard of her. Besides I don’t really care for feminist. Maybe you can go to D.U. and commiserate with those who have like minds?
Not only disrespectful to the recently deceased, but holier-than-thou to boot, with the added bonus of an appeal to the authority of age.
Who is it belongs in the DUmp?
Have the kind of day you deserve.
“Oh Donald, I’ve been a science fiction reader for about 48 years and I’ve never heard of her.”
I’m only a science fiction reader and I heard of her.
My capacity to GAS about her was lost at “feminist”.
Great sci-fi writer. Have many of her books. RIP.
Having looked her up...never read her. Oh well. If she published a humanist/feminist anthology of SF, then she’s probably someone I wouldn’t want to read.
Many great sci-fi writers wrote screenplays and/or novelizations of Star Trek: Theodore Sturgeon, James Blish, etc.
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