Autor/-in: Vonda N. McIntyre

Vonda Neel McIntyre (1948-2019) was one of the most acclaimed voices in US American science fiction from the 1960s onward. A novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic, she won her first Hugo Award in 1973 for her novella "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand. " This formed part of her ground-breaking feminist novel Dreamsnake. (1978), which won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award. A later novel, The Moon and the Sun. , won the Nebula in 1997. McIntyre contributed extensively to debates within the US sf community over the role of women in science fiction, and was instrumental in founding the Clarion West Writers Workshop for novice sf writers. A final novel, The Curve of the World. , was completed shortly before her death.