Everything about Joan D Vinge totally explained
Joan D. Vinge (born
2 April 1948 in
Baltimore,
Maryland 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.
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.
Vinge has been married twice: first to fellow SF author
Vernor Vinge, and then to SF editor
James Frenkel. Vinge and Frenkel have two children, and live in
Madison, Wisconsin. She has taught at the
Clarion Workshop several times, both East and West. Besides writing, Vinge also makes and sells dolls.
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.
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Works
Vinge's first published story, "Tin Soldier", a novelette, appeared in
Orbit 14 in
1974. Stories have also appeared in
Analog,
Millennial Women,
Asimov's Science Fiction,
Omni Magazine, 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 science fiction 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.
In March 2007, a new edition of her novel
Psion was released, which includes a sequel novella, "Psiren", together in one volume.
At the time of her accident in 2002, Vinge had been working on a new, independent novel called
Ladysmith, set in
Bronze Age Europe; she resumed writing
Ladysmith once she was able to begin writing again in 2007. She has also long maintained that once she's done with
Ladysmith she plans on writing a fourth novel in her Cat series.
Bibliography
Heaven Chronicles
- The Outcasts of Heaven Belt (1978)
- Legacy (1980)
The Snow Queen Cycle
The Snow Queen (1980)
World's End (1984)
The Summer Queen (1991)
Tangled Up In Blue (2000)
Cat
Psion (1982)
Catspaw (1988)
Dreamfall (1996)
Collections
Fireship / Mother and Child (1978) - single-volume collection of two novellas.
Eyes of Amber (1979) - 6 short stories
Phoenix in the Ashes (1985) - 6 short stories
Alien Blood (1988) - single-volume collection of Psion and its sequel Catspaw
The Heaven Chronicles (1991) - single-volume collection of The Outcasts of Heaven's Belt and its sequel Legacy
Media novelizations
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – The Storybook Based on the Movie (1983)
The Dune Storybook (1984)
Return to Oz (1985)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
Ladyhawke (1987)
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