Scholarship and criticism on Joan Vinge

Byrd, Deborah.

• "Gynocentric Mythmaking in Joan Vinge's The Snow Queen." Extrapolation (Fall 1986): pages 234-44.

Frazier, Robert.

• "Interview: Joan Vinge," Thrust 16 (Fall 1980): p. 8.

Laskowski, George, and Jan Brown.

• "Interview with Joan D. Vinge," (Minicon, 1979), in Lan's Lantern, #12 (April 1983), Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013, pp. 13-24.

Platt, Charles.

• "Joan D. Vinge," in Dream Makers, Volume II, New York: Berkley Books, 1983, pp. 211-217. Discusses The Snow Queen.

Ruth Salvaggio, Marleen Barr, and Richard Law.

• Suzy McKee Charnas: Octavia Butler: Joan D. Vinge. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont, 1986.

Thompson, William B.

• "Joan D. Vinge." Starship: The Magazine about Science Fiction, v. 29, no. 1 (Nov. 1982): pp. 15-18. Interview discussing women writing sf and Vinge's anthropological perspective.

Van Gelder, Lindsy.

• Review of The Snow Queen, Ms., v. 9, no. 1 (July 1980): p. 29.

Yoke, Carl.

• Review, The Snow Queen. Extrapolation, v. 22, no. 1 (Spring 1981): p. 94.
• "From Alienation to Personal Triumph: The Science Fiction of Joan D. Vinge" in The Feminine Eye, edited by Tom Staicar, (Ungar: New York, 1982) pp. 103-130. Analyzes Vinge's works up to and including The Snow Queen.

Denise Du Pont.

• editor, Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

Janice C. Crosby.

• Cauldron of Changes: Feminist Spirituality in Fantastic Fiction (McFarland: 2000, ISBN 0786408480). Studies on Marion Zimmer Bradley, Kim Chernin, Alice Walker, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Kennealy, Gael Baudino, Octavia Butler, Lynn Abbey, Joan Vinge, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Starhawk.