Joan D. Vinge
Joan D. Vinge is the
author of the Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen, as well as the The Summer Queen,
Psion, and
several other science fiction novels. Her summer 1996 hardcover,
Dreamfall, is a new novel about the character Cat. Vinge received a
degree in anthropology (with highest honors) from San Diego State
University. The study of that subject has been very useful to her in
writing science fiction, Vinge says; both offer fresh viewpoints for
looking at "human" behavior. Her novelette "Eyes of Amber" won the Hugo Award
as well, and she has been a finalist for several other Hugo and Nebula
awards. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and two
children.
The Heaven
Chronicles
The Outcasts of Heaven Belt |
Heaven Chronicles |
The
Outcasts of Heaven Belt (1978)
Legacy (1980)
Heaven Chronicles (1991)
(onimbus)
Heaven
System has no habitable planets, but
Heaven Belt asteroids once supported space colonies richer and more
advanced than even Earth...Until the Civil War. Now Heaven Belt is a
vast ruin, where the yet-living prey on the artifacts of the dead.
Where pockets of humanity use failing machines and radiation-leaking
ships to battle over fragments of lost science in the fading hope of
surviving another generation, another year. Meanwhile, light-years
away, Morningside Colony desperately gambles scarce resources, building
a single ship to seek the Belt's help. Seven brave men and women are
now flying toward Heaven... And have just crossed the border into Hell.
Cat
Psion |
Catspaw
Michael
Whelan |
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Psion
(1982)
Cat
is the ultimate future punk. He uses his
psionic talent to evade the labor gangs and securtiy police. But now he
is swept into the midst of an interstellar power struggle. Both sides
want to use his mind as a weapon. Cat owes no loyalty to anyone-but
there is no middle zone in this fight.
Catspaw (1988)
Telepathic,
tough, and cool, orphaned future punk
Cat is kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth,
where he is forced to protect those he most hates, those who most hate
him-the taMings. Seeking answers, Cat follows a trail of lies and
savagery that leads from homicidal enclaves of drug kings to a
fanatic's pulpit.
Dreamfall (1996)
Telepahtic,
tough and cool, half-human Cat is an
outcast on his home planet because of his mental abilities. Desperate
to find a place where he can live in peace, Cat plunges his energies
into a research project that soon places him squarely in the center of
an ecological disaster.
Snow
Queen
Snow Queen
Michael
Whelan |
World's End |
Summer Queen
Michael
Whelan |
Tangled Up In
Blue
Michael
Whelan |
The Snowqueen (1980)
The
tale of the ageless, corrupt Snow Queen and
her wish to control Tiamat forever. But her rule is quickly coming to
an end unless she can find a young mystic named Moon-the Snow Queen's
clone.
World's End (1984)
BZ
Gundhalinu, a policeman who became an outcast
after saving the future Summer Queen, quits his job to follow his
ne'er-do-well brothers into the godforsaken waste, World's End, to
prospect.
The Summer Queen (1991)
Moon
has succeeded the Snow Queen as ruler of
Tiamat and, although still only a gentle 17-year-old, she must assume
the powerful role of the Summer Queen. Through her tumultuous reign,
she realizes that in order to save her universe, she must be more than
a queen-she must become a goddess.
Tangled
Up in Blue
A
story of greed, corruption, and suspense among the police of the city
of Carbuncle.
Collections
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Peter Jones |
Pheonix In
the Ashes |
Eyes of Amber
Pheonix
In the Ashes
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