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
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A story told from an entirely alien point of view would read like one long typographical error and quickly lose the interest of any human reader.
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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.
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I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
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Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
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What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
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The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.