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29 quotes by Joan D. Vinge

Joan D. Vinge (i/ˈvɪndʒi/; born April 2, 1948 as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author. She is known for such works as her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its sequels, her series about the telepath named Cat, and her Heaven's Chronicles books.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

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I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is... →

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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as... →

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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard... →

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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or... →

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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female... →

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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

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Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

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There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

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