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.