Vonda N. McIntyre

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    24 Books (1 Series)
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    June 1975
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    April 2024
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Vonda N. McIntyre (70) Pancreatic Cancer

Born: August 28, 1948 - Louisville, KY
Died: April 1, 2019 - Seattle, WA

Vonda Neel McIntyre was a U.S. science fiction author. She was one of the first successful graduates of the Clarion Science fiction writers workshop. She attended the workshop in 1970. By 1973 she had won her first Nebula Award, for the novelette "Of Mist, and Grass and Sand." This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The novelette and novel both concern a female healer in a desolate primitivized venue.

McIntyre's debut novel was The Exile Waiting which was published in 1975. Her novel Dreamsnake won the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for best novel in 1978 and her novel The Moon and the Sun won the Nebula in 1997.

She also wrote a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterprise: The First Adventure and The Entropy Effect. She wrote the novelizations of the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Full Series List in Order

Starfarers

1 - Starfarers (Apr-1989)
2 - Transition (Jan-1991)
3 - Metaphase (Sep-1992)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

Entropy Effect (Jun-1981)
The Wrath of Khan (Jul-1982)
The Search for Spock (Jun-1984)
Enterprise: The First Adventure (Sep-1986)
The Voyage Home (Dec-1986)
The Crystal Star (Nov-1994)
Duty, Honor, Redemption (Oct-2004)

Star Trek: The Original Series

2 - Entropy Effect (Jun-1981)
7 - The Wrath of Khan (Jul-1982)
17 - The Search for Spock (Jun-1984)

Star Wars

The Crystal Star (Nov-1994)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Exile Waiting

    Center, sole surviving city in a storm-torn Earth, is like some hilltop city of the Renaissance, only wholly underground, and quarried out of a limestone cave system. The ruler is a Medici figure gone to seed: it's a hierarchical, free enterprise soc...

  • The Crystal Ship

  • Dreamsnake

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    The Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning novel from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The King’s Daughter.   On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer...

  • Fireflood and Other Stories

  • Entropy Effect

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 2

    THE UNIVERSE HAS LESS THAN A CENTURY LEFT... UNLESS SPOCK CAN CHANGE HISTORY! The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promisi...

  • The Wrath of Khan

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 7

    PREPARE YOURSELF FOR WARP-10 EXCITEMENT! The Galaxy's ultimate future is in the hands of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterprise .. . The Galaxy's ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers. A...

  • Superluminal

    From the ocean's emerald depths, where whales and adapting humans live in harmony ... to the rigors of inter-dimensional travel, the universe is order, and laws; the universe is hierarchies, evolution and space... Now a young pilot with a new bionic...

  • The Search for Spock

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 17

    NO ONE ON THE ENTERPRISE CAN BELIEVE THAT MR. SPOCK IS GONE! As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genesis can also...

  • The Bride



  • Enterprise: The First Adventure

    Star Trek

    He was the youngest man to captain a starship in Federation history. His crew included an untried first officer--and a maverick ship's surgeon. In the years to come, the voyages of Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise would become legend. ...

  • The Voyage Home

    Star Trek

    At last, Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the late starship Enterprise begin the long voyage home. But their trip is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious, all-powerful intruder. Suddenly, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew ...

  • Screwtop

  • Starfarers

    Starfarers - 1

    SPACE PIRATES They were idealists, scientists, and pioneers. Their ship was more than a mere spacecraft: Star farer was both a habitat and an experiment, unfurling its solar sails toward a rendezvous with the unknown, from which its predecessor n...

  • Transition

    Starfarers - 2

    ROGUE STARSHIP When the U.S. government tried to claim the research ship Starfarer for the military, the crew risked all to hijack her. They did manage to escape...with a nuclear missile embedded in the hull. Yet, they kept to their original missi...

  • Metaphase

    Starfarers - 3

    With the ship still recovering from sabotage even as new mechanical problems arise, J. D. Sauvage and the first contact crew prepare to meet the reclusive alien squidmoth. Though civilized worlds have shunned them both, human and alien hope to find f...

  • Barbary

    A story of feline first contact by the Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning author that “recalls Robert Heinlein’s excellent stories for this age group” (Publishers Weekly).   Twelve-year-old Barbary has been dreaming of going to space for as l...

  • Nautilus

    In the final volume in the Starfarers series, the crew of the Starfarer must decide, on the behalf of Earth, whether to join the interstellar Civilization of the aliens or risk being stranded in space. Original....

  • The Crystal Star

    Star Trek
    Star Wars

    Princess Leia's children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers' trail to a disabled refugee ship, from which children are also missing. Here she learns of a powerful Imperial officer with a twisted plan...

  • The Moon and the Sun

    In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even the sacred b...



  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2004

  • Duty, Honor, Redemption

    Star Trek

    Cadets that enter Starfleet Academy have two mantras drilled into them from their very first day. They must do their duty for the Federation and Starfleet, and they must strive to honor their oath as Starfleet officers. Among those who have best embo...

  • Fireflood

    A collection of eleven stories from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.”   This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre’s sparkling...

  • The King's Daughter

    Note: Previously Published as The Moon and the Sun Winner of the Nebula Award and now a major motion “A luminous, radiant novel” (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series). During the late seventeenth century, Louis XIV’s natur...

  • Little Sisters and Other Stories

    Selected short stories by one of the most acclaimed voices in post-war US American science fiction.This volume presents a selection of short fiction by Vonda Neel McIntyre (1948â€"2019), one of the most acclaimed writers of post-war US American scien...

Award-Winning Books by Vonda N. McIntyre

Dreamsnake
1979 Hugo Award -- Novel
1979 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
1979 Nebula Award -- Novel
The Moon and the Sun
1998 Nebula Award -- Novel


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Vonda N. McIntyre has published 24 books.

Vonda N. McIntyre does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Little Sisters and Other Stories, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Vonda N. McIntyre, The Exile Waiting, was published in June 1975.

Yes. Vonda N. McIntyre has 1 series.
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