Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda N. McIntyre (http://www.vondamcintyre.com/) is a multiple award-winning science-fiction and fantasy writer and a major figure in the history of feminist science fiction. Her first published short story, Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand, a tale of women's healing, won the Nebula Award. Since then, she has won the Nebula Award twice more, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award.

McIntyre's stories and novels almost invariably feature strong women protagonists in complex, thoughtful situations. Dreamsnake, her second novel, begins with Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand, and goes on to explore the world, including a nuanced examination of the role of biofeedback in birth control. (Her first novel, The Exile Waiting takes place in a walled city in the world of Dreamsnake and describes a young female protagonist who, although uneducated and vastly encumbered by her family's poverty, is a mathematical genius.

McIntyre often writes about a woman (or a female alien, or unicorn, or mermaid) who is an outcast in her world.

When not writing, she creates "beaded sea creatures," which are often for sale at science-fiction community charity auctions.

Bibliography

Science Fiction Novels

The Starfarers Series

• Starfarers (1989)
• Transition (1990)
• Metaphase (1992)
• Nautilus (1994)

Standalone novels

• The Exile Waiting (1975)
• Dreamsnake (1978) (winner, Hugo Award. Nebula Award, Locus Award, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
• Superluminal (1984)
• Barbary (1988) (young adult novel)

Fantasy Novel

• The Moon and the Sun (1997, winner Nebula Award; winner Seiun Award, honor book, James Tiptree Award)

Media Tie-In Novels

• The Entropy Effect (1981 Star Trek tie-in)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. (1982 Star Trek movie novelization)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984 Star Trek movie novelization)
• Enterprise: The First Adventure (1986 Star Trek tie-in)
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986 Star Trek movie novelization)
• The Bride (1985)
• Star Wars: The Crystal Star (1994 Star Wars tie-in)

Short story collections

• Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)

Contents

• "Fireflood" from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" from Analog (winner Nebula Award, best novelet, first chapter of Dreamsnake) (available on the author's website; see external links)
• "Spectra" from Orbit 11, edited by Damon Knight
• "Wings" from The Alien Condition, edited by Stephen Goldin
• "The Mountains of Sunset: The Mountains of Dawn" from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, also in The Norton Book of Science Fiction, edited by Brian Attebery and Ursula K. Le Guin
• "The End's Beginning" from Analog
• "Screwtop" from The Crystal Ship, edited by Robert Silverberg. Also published as half of a Tor Double, with The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.
• "Only at Night" from Clarion, edited by Robin Scott Wilson
• "Recourse, Inc." from Alternities
• "The Genius Freaks" from Orbit 12, edited by Damon Knight (1973)
• "Aztecs" in The American Tricentennial (1977)

Uncollected short stories

• "Cages," in Quark 4, edited by Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker
• "Elfleda" in New Dimensions 12, edited by Marta Randall and Robert Silverberg
• "The Galactic Clock" in Generation edited by David Gerrold
• "Looking for Satan" in Shadows of Sanctuary edited by Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey (Thieves' World story)
• "Malheur Maar" in Full Spectrum 2, edited by Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout, and Pat Lobrutto
• "Shadows, Moving" in "Interfaces," edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd
• "Steelcollar Worker" in Analog, November 1992
• "Little Faces" in Scifiction, February 2005 (nominated for the Nebula Award; honor story for the Tiptree Award (available on the author's website; see external links)
• "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature" in Nature, February 2005 (available on the author's website; see external links)
• "The Adventure of the Field Theorems" from Sherlock Holmes in Orbit edited by Mike Resnick and Martin Harry Greenberg, 1996 (available on the author's website; see external links)
• "Misprint in "Futures," Nature July 2008

Edited Anthologies

• Editor, Aurora: Beyond Equality (1976, with Susan Janice Anderson)

External Links

• the author's website
• full text of "The Adventure of the Field Theorems
• full text of "Elfleda"
• full text of "Little Faces"
• full text of "A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature"
• podcast of "A Modest Proposal ...
• full text of "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"
• Excerpts from The Moon and the Sun
• About Beaded Sea Creatures