Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda Neel McIntyre (* 28. August 1948 in Louisville , Kentucky , United States ; † 1. April 2019 in Seattle , United States) was an American science fiction - writer .

Life

She studied biology (majoring in genetics) at the University of Washington . In 1970 she attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop for aspiring science fiction writers. Her first short story (Breaking Point) was also published in the same year . For her story Of Mist, and Grass and Sand (German: Die Schlange or Dunst und Gras und Sand ) she received her first Nebula Award in 1973 . In 1978 she expanded the story to her most successful novel Dreamsnake (German: Traumschlange ), which received both the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and the Locus Award and has been translated into 13 languages. Her first novel The Exile Waiting (German: The Ashes of the Earth ) was published in 1975. In 1997 she won her third Nebula Award with the novel The Moon and the Sun (German: At the Court of the Sun King ). Some of the Star Trek and Star Wars novels she wrote were commercially successful .

Vonda N. McIntyre contracted pancreatic cancer in early 2019 and died on April 1, 2019 at the age of 70 with her friends.

Awards

• 1974: Nebula Award for the story Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
• 1979: Hugo Award , Nebula Award and Locus Award for the novel Dreamsnake
• 1998: Nebula Award for the novel The Moon and the Sun
• 2010: Service to SFWA Award for life's work
• 2015: Thomas D. Clareson Award for Lifetime Achievement

bibliography

Series

Starfarers

• 1 Starfarers (1989)
  • German: Starfarers. Bastei Lübbe, 1997, ISBN 3-404-24227-0 .
• 2 transition (1991)
  • German: contact. Bastei Lübbe, 1997, ISBN 3-404-24228-9 .
• 3 metaphase (1992)
  • German: Metaphase. Bastei Lübbe, 1997, ISBN 3-404-24229-7 .
• 4 Nautilus (1994)
  • German: Nautilus. Bastei Lübbe, 1997, ISBN 3-404-24230-0 .

Star Trek

• The Entropy Effect (1981)
  • German: The entropy effect. Heyne, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30923-5 .
• Enterprise: The First Adventure (1986)
  • German: The first mission. Heyne, 1997, ISBN 3-453-03490-2 .

Starwars

• Star Wars: The Crystal Star (1994)
  • German: Star Wars. The crystal star. Heyne, 1996, ISBN 3-453-10801-9 .

Novels

• The Exile Waiting (1975)
  • English: The ashes of the earth. Heyne, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30679-1 .
• Dreamsnake (1978)
  • German: dream snake. Droemer Knaur, 1979, ISBN 3-426-05714-X .
• Superluminal (1983)
  • German: Superluminal. Heyne, 1999, ISBN 3-453-13983-6 .
• Barbary (1986)
• The Moon and the Sun (1997)
  • German: At the court of the Sun King. Bastei Lübbe, 1999, ISBN 3-404-20352-6 .
• The Moon and the Sun (1997)
  • German: The song of the moon and the sun. Bastei Lübbe, 2015, ISBN 978-3-404-20778-7 .

Novel versions of films

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • English: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Heyne, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30909-X .
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
  • English: Star Trek III: In Search of Mister Spock. Heyne, 1984, ISBN 3-453-31153-1 .
• The Bride (1985)
  • German: The bride. Heyne, 1987, ISBN 3-453-02276-9 .
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
  • German: Star Trek IV: Back to the Present. Heyne, 1987, ISBN 3-453-00534-1 .
• Duty, Honor, Redemption (2004)

Short story collections

• The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction (1978, with Marta Randall )
• Fireflood and Other Stories (1979)
  • German: Feuerflut. Moewig, 1981 ISBN 3-8118-3551-3 .

Anthologies (as editor)

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

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 278.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 717.
• Gay E. Carter: McIntyre, Vonda N (eel) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 544 f.
• John Clute : McIntyre, Vonda N. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated December 19, 2017.
• Don D'Ammassa : Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Facts On File, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8160-5924-1 , pp. 253 f.
• George Mann : The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Robinson, London 2001, ISBN 1-8411-9177-9 , pp. 
• Hoda M. Zaki: McIntyre, Vonda N (eel) . In: James Gunn : The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , p. 291 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Vonda N. McIntyre in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vonda N. McIntyre in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Vonda N. McIntyre in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Vonda N. McIntyre at Open Library
• Homepage of Vonda N. McIntyre
• Vonda N. McIntyre in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Vonda N. McIntyre in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jeanne Gomoll: April 1, 2019. In: caringbridge.org. April 1, 2019, accessed April 2, 2019 .