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The broad romantic sweep of the tale, however, carried most doubters with it (just as Graves's work has remained a central source for romantic alternative takes on the submerged origins of our secular world). Besides writing, Vinge also makes and sells dolls.
Robert A. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novelFriday to Joan.
On March 2, 2002, Vinge was severely injured in a car accident that left her with "minor but debilitating" brain damage that, along with her fibromyalgia, left her unable to write.
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Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. The Winter Queen plots to renew her reign (via cloning) in summer. Though the title and some of the plot again come from Hans Christian Andersen, this is an essay in Anthropology, much of it founded in the pseudoscientific mythopoetic explorations of Robert Graves as expounded in The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948), which Brian M Stableford argued in a review "is rather like a chemistry graduate writing a story whose plot hinges on the phlogiston theory".
"Eyes of Amber" won the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. More impetuous is the Cat series, begun with Psion (1982; exp as coll 2007) and continued with Catspaw (1988), the two collected as Alien Blood (omni 1988); a further volume is Dreamfall (1996).
After her are Christina Hoff Sommers (1950), John Patrick Shanley (1950), Louis Sachar (1954), Robert Creeley (1926), Lyman Abbott (1835), and Emma Willard (1787).
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Vinge studied art in college, but eventually changed to a major in anthropology, and received a B.A.
degree from San Diego State University in 1971.
Vinge has been married twice: first to fellow science fiction author Vernor Vinge from 1972 to 1979, and currently to science fiction editor James Frenkel since 1980. Before her are Ahmad NikTalab, Kerstin Gier, Pentti Haanpää, Peter Orlovsky, Julia Donaldson, and Volodymyr Vakulenko.
She has taught at the Clarion Workshop several times, both East and West. Psion, which unlike its successor was published as a Young Adult tale, is actually a development, years later, of the first long fiction Vinge wrote as a teenager. After graduating from high school, Joanpursued a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego.
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Outside of her academic pursuits, Joan participated in an underwater archaeology expedition in 1971.
Cat, an orphan (half human, half Hydran, a race despised by humans) with catlike eyes and Psi Powers, has full-blooded, melodramatic, Space-Opera adventures. Before she began to publish novels, Vinge had considerable success with her short fiction, some of which deals with Communication between humans and Aliens, including the title story of The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction (anth 1976) edited by Robert Silverberg.
She recovered to the point of being able to resume writing around the beginning of 2007, and her first new book after the accident is the 2011 novelization of the movie Cowboys & Aliens.
Vinge's first published story, "Tin Soldier", a novella, appeared in Orbit 14 in 1974. Her mother descended from the Native American Erie tribe.
Her contributions to the science fiction genre have earned her widespread acclaim and numerous accolades, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Locus Award. After her are Kristina Lugn, Lewis Black, Radojka Šverko, Anders Wejryd, Eliud Williams, and Mikheil Korkia.
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(1948- ) US author, with a degree in anthropology from San Diego State University; she has been married twice, to Vernor Vinge 1972-1979 and to Jim Frenkel from 1980. Vinge and Frenkel have two children, and live in Madison, Wisconsin. She is known for her Hugo Award–winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.