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onda N. McIntyre is the author of Dreamsnake, which won both the Nebula Award and the Hugo award for best science fiction novel. The World Science Fiction Convention awards the Hugo after a vote by readers, while the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presents the Nebula. Dreamsnake has been published in thirteen languages, including Japanese and Polish.
n 1994, The Chesterfield Film Company offered her a fellowship
in its Writers Film Project, sponsored by Universal Studios and
Amblin Entertainment. She spent the year in Los Angeles working
on two screenplays. The results are The Moon and the Sun and
Illegal Alien. She has also adapted Dreamsnake and
Barbary as movie screenplays.
he Moon and the Sun is set in 1693 at the court of Louis XIV, in
Versailles, where McIntyre travelled to do research. The period
is as rich as the chateau; in order to prevent the screenplay of
The Moon and the Sun from growing beyond the dreaded 120-page
limit, she also wrote the story as a novel. "I'm probably the
only person in the universe," she says, "who will perceive this
book as science fiction."
ocket Books will publish The Moon and the Sun in hardcover in
September 1997. "I'm pleased with the way the novel came out,"
McIntyre says, "and amazed at the amount of research it took.
Dave Stern, my editor, just sent me the cover proof, and it's
wonderful. Gary Halsey, the artist, has done the most beautiful
cover I've seen in a long, long time."
he Starfarers Series, now complete, is a quartet of novels
narrating the story of alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage and
her colleagues in rebellion aboard the campus starship
Starfarer. The series begins with Starfarers,
continues with Transition and Metaphase, and concludes
with Nautilus. Starfarers is one of the few novels
ever to inspire a fan club before being written.
Bantam Spectra published the complete quartet and re-released
Dreamsnake at the same time, making McIntyre their entire
paperback lineup for October 1994.
n the following month, Bantam Spectra published McIntyre's Star
Wars novel, The Crystal Star, which continues the
adventures of George Lucas' creations Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa,
Han Solo, and Chewbacca, and the next generation of Star
Wars characters.
cIntyre's other novels include The Exile Waiting, The Entropy
Effect, Superluminal, and Barbary. The Exile Waiting
was nominated for the Nebula; excerpts from Superluminal, "Aztecs"
and "Transit," received Hugo and Nebula nominations.
er collection, Fireflood & Other Stories, includes the Nebula
award-winning "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," plus ten other
stories. With Susan Janice Anderson, she edited Aurora: Beyond
Equality, an anthology of humanist science fiction by Ursula K.
Le Guin, James Tiptree, Jr., A.R. Sheldon, Marge Piercy, David J.
Skal, P.J. Plauger, and others.cIntyre wrote the best-selling novel versions of the screenplays
for three of the popular Star Trek movies: The Wrath of Khan,
The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home. Her
audiotape adaptation of The Voyage Home, narrated by
George Takei and Leonard Nimoy, was nominated for a Grammy.
he graduated as a Bachelor of Science from the honors program of
the University of Washington. With several short-story sales to
her credit, she spent a summer at the Clarion Writers Workshop.
After a year of graduate work in genetics, she ventured out on
her own as a free-lance writer.
he has exhibited hunters and jumpers, organized conferences,
observed humpback whales in Alaska, and rafted in the white water
of Idaho. She earned shodan (first degree black belt) in the
martial art Aikido.
hough she prefers fiction, she has written articles ranging from
"Observation of a Psychic" for The Skeptical Inquirer to "The
Straining Your Eyes through the Viewscreen Blues" for Nebula
Award Stories 15 to "Virus Attack," which appeared in several
computer newsletters.
he has twice been writer-in-residence at Clarion West, the
Seattle daughter of the original Clarion, Pennsylvania, writers
workshop. She was visiting novelist at Humboldt State College's
Future Fiction Hypercard interactive novel project. She has
spoken at Rutgers University, Antioch West, the University of
Washington, the Harbourfront International Author's Festival, and
the Melbourne Writers Workshop. She has given readings from
Seattle to Brighton, England; Durango to Winnipeg. She was a
judge for the first James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award. She
recently travelled to Auckland as Guest of Honor of the New
Zealand national sf convention, and to Finland, as guest of
Finncon '95, part of the Jyvaskyla Arts Festival.
card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union, she
also belongs to the Cousteau Society, the Space Studies
Institute, the Planetary Society, the Authors Guild, and the
National Organization for Women. This Christmas, she "adopted" a
pgymy marmoset for her sister, an orca for her father, and an
island in the Gulf of Mexico for her mother.
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