Remembering Vonda

Award-winning SFF author Vonda N. McIntyre died April 1 2019. The world lost a force of nature a brilliant kind generous fiercely talented artist. Friends colleagues admirers fans all pay tribute to a radiant life here. McIntyre's oeuvre includes Dreamsnake (Hugo & Nebula award winner '78) The Moon and the Sun (Nebula '98; & movie awaiting release); plus stories novelizations & tie-ins including Star Trek novel The Entropy Effect. She founded the Clarion West workshop and was a fairy godmother to 100s of students; a quiet tireless feminist Kentucky-born McIntyre moved to Seattle & became a life-long resident as well as a prolific creator of crochet topoplogy; McIntyre also collaborated with Ursula K. Le Guin and was a founding member of the Book View Cafe an author-owned publishing cooperative. McIntyre both shaped and nurtured the SF/F community; as her friend Jane Hawkins has said we shall not see her like again. All proceeds will benefit Clarion West Writers Workshop.