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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alien american-author entirely error human interest lose point quickly view
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.
american-author characters confronted main quality snow survival
The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point.
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.
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.
upset balance ancestor
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
obsession immortality humans
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
hate giving stronger
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.
fear-of-the-unknown terrible
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
eye age ears
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
lunch levels free-lunch
Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.