Are there books or stories of Vonda's you haven't read? Several are available through Basement Full of Books. (Vonda will even autograph them if you ask.) If you can't wait and need a Vonda fix right now, you can read her short story, "The Adventure of the Field Theorems."

The Moon and the Sun. Pocket Books Hardcover, September 1997. ISBN 0-671-56765-9.

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"The finest alternate history ever, lighthearted and wise -- a gorgeous visit to the court of the Sun King, a marvelous fireworks illumination of human history, human nature, and the nature of the people who live in the sea -- a luminous, radiant novel."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness, Always Coming Home, Wizard of Earthsea, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea; winner of the National Book Award; multiple winner of the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr., award

The Exile Waiting. SF Book Club, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975; Tor, 1985. (Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 255 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed. Basement Full of Books.)

The rulers of the last city on earth exile Mischa (a young empath), and Jan Hikaru (an offworld poet) to the deep underground. They find a world of crystalline caverns, strange, isolated people, and rebellion.

Dreamsnake. Houghton Mifflin, 1978; Dell, 1979, Bantam Spectra 1994. (Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Pacific Northwest Booksellers' awards)

Superluminal. Pocket Books, 1984. (Houghton Mifflin, 298 pp. Hardcover, first trade edition, autographed or numbered & boxed limited first edition. Basement Full of Books.)

Laenea Trevelyan, a starship pilot, has her heart replaced with a machine so she can survive faster-than-light travel. Orca, a diver, divides her time between starships and the Strait of Georgia, where her relatives include a family of killer whales and a group of other divers, human beings who can exist underwater, and who are, technically, at war with the United States. Radu Dracul, a colonist from the alien world Twilight, having chosen to leave his home and become a starship crew member, discovers he has abilities he never dreamed of.

Twelve-year-old Barbary emigrates to space, to the research station Einstein. Researchers and diplomats on board the station are preparing to meet the first alien spacecraft to visit the solar system. Barbary wants to stay with her new sister Heather and Heather's father Yoshi, but Barbary is keeping a secret. If her secret is discovered, she could be sent back to Earth.

The Starfarers Series:

Starfarers. Easton Press; Ace Books, 1989; Bantam Spectra 1994.

The starship Starfarer prepares for Earth's first interstellar voyage. Its diverse faculty includes J.D. Sauvage, the alien contact specialist; the other members of the alien contact department: Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory; J.D.'s friend Zev, the diver; a world-famous sensory artist; Crimson Ng, paleontologist and performance artist; Miensaem Thanthavong, Nobel laureate; General Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union and (in the eyes of the political entity that swallowed up his homeland) war criminal; Griffith, the man from the GAO who says he's an accountant; Infinity Kenjiro Yanagihara y Mendoza, the gardener, among other things; and Florrie Brown, the first member of Grandparents in Space.

But political conditions on Earth are shaky and delicate. As J.D. her colleagues eagerly anticipate their departure...

... EarthSpace cancels the deep space expedition.

So what do they do? They do what any red-blooded multi- national starship faculty would do.

They steal the starship.

Transition. Easton Press; Bantam Books, 1991; Bantam Spectra 1994.

The starship Starfarer plunges into the Tau Ceti system, its computer web crashed and its surface penetrated by a nuclear missile. J.D. Sauvage finds evidence of an interstellar community... but will it welcome Starfarer, or drive human beings away?

Metaphase. Bantam Spectra, 1992; Bantam Spectra 1994.

J.D. Sauvage encounters Nemo, a squidmoth. It has one trait in common with human beings: they all are outcasts.

Nautilus. Bantam Spectra, 1994.

The starship Starfarer and its faculty and staff encounter the Four Worlds, their sponsors into Civilization. J.D. Sauvage, alien contact specialist, meets the four different peoples of the Four Worlds: the charming Largerfarthings, the mysterious and demanding Smallerfarthings, the whale-eel Orchestra of Largernearer, and the unique, lonely Smallernearer. Performance artist and paleontologist Crimson Ng grapples with ethical problems when the Four Worlds representatives take her archaeological art project all too seriously. Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, Satoshi Lono, and Stephen Thomas Gregory struggle to keep their family partnership from fragmenting under the strain of love, fear, and unacknowledged grief.

And the cosmic string is moving again.

Comments about the Starfarers series

"A very human story in a very exotic setting, Transition solidifies Vonda McIntyre's position in the vanguard of American science fiction writers."

-- Mike Resnick

"Transition is a must for those who enjoy scientific extrapolation and interesting people."

-- Locus

"A fine novel of adventure."

-- Greg Bear

"McIntyre is a master SF stylist, creating well-rounded, believable and distinctive characters, and she excels at lush descriptions that allow the reader to visualize the action."

-- Publisher's Weekly

"With this third novel, STARFARERS clearly becomes the most important series in science fiction. The rich cast of characters and their fascinating psychological interplay, the fast dramatic pace, the wit and brilliance of both scientific and social imagination, and the sheer beauty of the invention -- wait till you meet the squidmoth! -- make Metaphase the most exciting and satisfying science fiction I have read this year."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

The Entropy Effect. Timescape, 1981 (original Star Trek novel #1).

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Pocket Books, 1982 (based on the movie script).

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Pocket Books, 1984 (based on the movie script).

Enterprise: The First Adventure. Pocket, 1986 (original Star Trek "giant" novel #1 for the 20th anniversary).

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Pocket Books, 1986 (based on the movie script).

The Bride. Dell Books, 1985 (based on the movie script).

Star Wars: The Crystal Star. Bantam Spectra, 1994.

Fireflood and Other Stories. Houghton Mifflin, Pocket Books, 1979. (Houghton Mifflin, 281 pp. Hardcover, first edition, autographed. Basement Full of Books.)

Fireflood and Other Stories is a collection of eleven stories, including "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," the Nebula award-winning novelet that formed the basis of the award-winning novel Dreamsnake; "Fireflood," in which Dark, a genetically engineered human being who can live in the most extreme environments, fights for her right to live and work; and "Wings" and "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn," in which a species of winged people escape their dying planet on spaceships that they navigate by instinct.

"Fireflood" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (Analog) (Nebula award, Best Novelet 1973)
"Spectra" (Orbit 11)

"Wings" (The Alien Condition)

"The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

"The End's Beginning" (Analog)

"Screwtop" (The Crystal Ship)

"Only at Night" (Clarion)

"Recourse, Inc." (Alternities)

"The Genius Freaks" (Orbit 12)

"Aztecs" (2076: The American Tricentennial) (Nebula nomination, 1977)

"Cages" (Quark 4, ed. Delany & Hacker; Paperback Library)

"Elfleda" (New Dimensions 12, ed. Randall & Silverberg; Pocket Books)

"The Galactic Clock" (Generation, ed. Gerrold; Dell)

"Looking for Satan" (Shadows of Sanctuary, ed. Asprin & Abbey; Ace)

"Malheur Maar" (Full Spectrum 2, ed. Aronica, McCarthy, Stout, & Lobrutto; Doubleday)

"Shadows, Moving" (Interfaces, ed. Le Guin & Kidd; Ace)

"Steelcollar Worker" (Analog, November 1992)

"The Adventure of the Field Theorems" (Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Resnick & Greenberg, 1996)
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Aurora: Beyond Equality, Fawcett Gold Medal, 1976, edited by Vonda N. McIntyre & Susan Janice Anderson, editors

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