{"id":18102,"date":"2019-04-02T17:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vonda-n-mcintyre-1948-2019-final-novel-adds-to-seattle-science-fiction-stars-legacy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T09:15:53","slug":"vonda-n-mcintyre-1948-2019-final-novel-adds-to-seattle-science-fiction-stars-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vonda-n-mcintyre-1948-2019-final-novel-adds-to-seattle-science-fiction-stars-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vonda N. McIntyre, 1948-2019: Final novel adds to Seattle science-fiction star\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vonda McIntyre, 1948-2019. (SFWA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vonda N. McIntyre, a leader of Seattle\u2019s science-fiction community who made her mark with \u201cStar Trek\u201d novels as well as the Clarion West Writers Workshop, has passed away at the age of 70.<\/p>\n

McIntyre was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer eight weeks ago \u2014 but she managed to complete her final novel, titled \u201cCurve of the World,\u201d less than two weeks before her death at home in Seattle on April 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe ready for a great read in a while!\u201d her neighbor and friend Jane Hawkins reported in a posting to McIntyre\u2019s journal on the CaringBridge website.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky native moved to Seattle with her family in the 1960s, and earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in biology from the University of Washington in 1970. In that same year, the young writer attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in State College, Pa. She was so impressed that she started up Clarion West in Seattle in 1971 while she was studying genetics in graduate school. That incarnation of the workshop lasted three years, but it was revived in Seattle by different organizers in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

McIntyre won her first Nebula Award in 1973 for the novelette \u201cOf Mist, and Grass, and Sand.\u201d That story was incorporated into her 1978 novel \u201cDreamsnake,\u201d which won a Hugo award as well as another Nebula. \u201cThe Moon and the Sun\u201d earned McIntyre her third Nebula in 1998. A movie based on that novel, \u201cThe King\u2019s Daughter,\u201d was filmed in 2014 and is awaiting theatrical release. Update: The film, starring Pierce Brosnan, was released in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her bibliography includes novelizations of \u201cStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,\u201d \u201cStar Trek III: The Search for Spock\u201d and \u201cStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home.\u201d She also wrote two other \u201cStar Trek\u201d books based on the original TV series, as well as a \u201cStar Wars\u201d novel and the \u201cStarfarers\u201d book series.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarfarers\u201d grew out of a prank that McIntyre perpetrated during a science-fiction convention. Having been asked to speak on a panel about sci-fi on TV \u2014 and realizing that it was likely to include another tired tirade about how awful it was \u2014 she planned ahead. During the panel, she said, \u201cWait a minute. I can\u2019t believe this. Haven\u2019t you people been watching the \u2018Starfarers\u2019 miniseries?\u201d<\/p>\n

McIntyre said her detailed description left the audience convinced that they\u2019d missed a badly scheduled and unadvertised miniseries. But the story underlying the nonexistent show was so good that McIntyre decided she\u2019d make it real in another way. That\u2019s how she came to write the four \u201cStarfarers\u201d novels.<\/p>\n

McIntyre was a founding member of the Book View Cafe, an author-owned publishing cooperative, and was active in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. GeekWire contributor Frank Catalano said her passing was \u201cvery sad\u201d on a personal level.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a friend since I moved to Seattle in the early 1980s, a great help to me when I was overseeing the administration of the Nebula Awards and as a SFWA officer, and always a practical, humorous and calm voice of writing encouragement,\u201d Catalano said.<\/p>\n

McIntyre\u2019s friends are planning a private memorial gathering within the next few days. A public reception will be scheduled within about a month, with details to be announced on the CaringBridge website. Her papers will be archived at the University of Oregon, which also preserves the literary papers of another well-known Pacific Northwest science-fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin.<\/p>\n

This report draws upon an obituary written by Mike Glyer for the File770 website.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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