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
Joan D. Vinge quotes about
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
upset balance ancestor
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
strong character writing
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.
writing political want
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
obsession immortality humans
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
love-you forever matter
It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.
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.