Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vingeis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
thinking earth may
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.
upset balance ancestor
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
writing perfect goddess
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
order rooms born
Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.
doe our-society matter
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
dream liars hero
There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.
queens inspiration writing
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
obsession immortality humans
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
reading writing science
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
worry age woe
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
change unique personality
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
body naked tradition
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
sea age stories
Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
love break-up hate
Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.