Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge (/ˈvɪndʒi/ ⓘ; born April 2, 1948, as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award–winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books. She also is the author of The Random House Book of Greek Myths (1999).
Biography
Vinge studied art in college, but eventually changed to a major in anthropology, and received a B.A. degree from San Diego State University in 1971.[citation needed]
Vinge has been married twice: first to fellow science fiction author Vernor Vinge from 1972 to 1979, and currently to science fiction editor James Frenkel since 1980. Vinge and Frenkel have two children, and live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has taught at the Clarion Workshop several times, both East and West.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1982 novel Friday in part to Joan.[1]
On March 2, 2002, Vinge was severely injured in a car accident that left her with "minor but debilitating" brain damage that, along with her fibromyalgia, left her unable to write. She recovered to the point of being able to resume writing around the beginning of 2007,[2] and her first new book after the accident was the 2011 novelization of the movie Cowboys & Aliens.[3]
Works
Vinge's first published story, "Tin Soldier", a novella, appeared in Orbit 14 in 1974. Her stories have also appeared in Analog, Millennial Women, Asimov's Science Fiction, and several "Best of the Year" anthologies.
Several of her stories have won major awards: Her novel The Snow Queen won the 1981 Hugo Award for Best Novel. "Eyes of Amber" won the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. She has also been nominated for several other Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her novel Psion was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.
Bibliography
Heaven Chronicles
- The Outcasts of Heaven Belt (1978)
- The Heaven Chronicles (1991) (contained novel and related novella "Legacy")
The Snow Queen Cycle
- The Snow Queen (1980)
- World's End (1984)
- The Summer Queen (1991)
- Tangled Up In Blue (2000)
Cat
- "Psiren" (1980, published as chapbook, reprinted in Phoenix in the Ashes and 2007 printing of Psion)
- Psion (1982, expanded version published 2007)
- Catspaw (1988)
- Alien Blood (1988, omnibus of Psion and Catspaw)
- Dreamfall (1996)
Collections
- Fireship / Mother and Child (1978) - single-volume collection of two novellas.
- Eyes of Amber (1979)
- Phoenix in the Ashes (1985)
Media novelizations and tie-ins
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – The Storybook Based on the Movie (1983)
- Tarzan, King of the Apes (1983)
- The Dune Storybook (1984)
- Return to Oz (1985)
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
- Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
- Santa Claus: The Movie Storybook (1985)
- Ladyhawke (1987)
- Willow (1988)
- Lost in Space (1998)
- Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
- 47 Ronin (2013)
Short fiction
- "Tin Soldier" (1974)
- "Mother and Child" (1975)
- "The Peddler's Apprentice" (with Vernor Vinge) (1975)
- "The Crystal Ship" (1976)
- "To Bell the Cat" (1977)
- "Eyes of Amber" (1977)
- "View from a Height" (1978)
- "Phoenix in the Ashes" (1978)
- "Fireship" (1978)
- "Psiren" (1980)
- "The Storm King" (1980)
- "Voices from the Dust" (1980)
- "The Hunt of the Unicorn" (1980)
- "Exorcycle" (1982)
- "Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstones" (as by Billie Randall) (1985)
- "Tam Lin" (1985)
- "Latter-Day Martian Chronicles" (1990)
- "Murphy's Cat" (2000)
Poetry
- "Phoenix" (1978)
- "Sun and Chimes Dropping" (1978)
- "Alien Lover" (1980)
- "There Are Songs" (1980)
References
External links
- Official site on SFF.net (archived 1 March 2017)
- Joan D. Vinge at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- "Rule 18" by Clifford D. Simak (1939)
- "The Roads Must Roll" by Robert A. Heinlein (1941)
- "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov (1943)
- "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (1944)
- "First Contact" by Murray Leinster (1946)
- "The Little Black Bag" by Cyril M. Kornbluth (1951)
- "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish (1954)
- "The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller Jr. (1955)
- "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster (1956)
- "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber (1958)
- "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak (1959)
- "The Last Castle" by Jack Vance (1967)
- "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968)
- "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson (1969)
- "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973)
- "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974)
- "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison (1975)
- "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven (1976)
- "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977)
- "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge (1978)
- "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson (1979)
- "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)
- "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson (1981)
- "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny (1982)
- "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983)
- "Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984)
- "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler (1985)
- "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (1986)
- "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny (1987)
- "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988)
- "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989)
- "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg (1990)
- "The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick (1991)
- "Gold" by Isaac Asimov (1992)
- "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (1993)
- "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994)
- "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995)
- "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly (1996)
- "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (1997)
- "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson (1998)
- "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling (1999)
- "1016 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly (2000)
- "Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2001)
- "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2002)
- "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (2003)
- "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick (2004)
- "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2005)
- "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2006)
- "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (2007)
- "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008)
- "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (2009)
- "The Island" by Peter Watts (2010)
- "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen Steele (2011)
- "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders (2012)
- "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan (2013)
- "The Lady Astronaut of Mars", by Mary Robinette Kowal (2014)
- "The Day the World Turned Upside Down" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Lia Belt (2015)
- "Folding Beijing" by Hao Jingfang (2016)
- "The Tomato Thief" by Ursula Vernon (2017)
- "The Secret Life of Bots" by Suzanne Palmer (2018)
- "If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again" by Zen Cho (2019)
- "Emergency Skin" by N. K. Jemisin (2020)
- "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker (2021)
- "Bots of the Lost Ark" by Suzanne Palmer (2022)
- "The Space-Time Painter" by Hai Ya (2023)