"To my mind science fiction has tremendous potential for being great literature, simply because you can do anything," Joan D. Vinge told Charles Platt in Dream Makers Volume II. "You can set up parame...
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In the following excerpt, Lewis favorably reviews Fireship, describing it as a story of "love and loyalty and integrity and courage. "
Here are two novellas: Fireship [and] Mother and...
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In the following excerpt, Yoke examines the theme of alienation in Vinge's stories.
But she wore the nomad's tunic she had brought back with her from Persiponë's, the on...
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In the following excerpt, Law determines all Vinge's short fiction to be, in individual ways, love stories.
Joan D. Vinge is another science fiction writer attuned to Existentialism, but he...
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Here, Wendell offers a mixed review of Phoenix in the Ashes.
Joan Vinge provides some of the better science fiction reading available today. Her interest in human emotion and motivation usually res...
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In the following negative review, Eaglen deems Phoenix in the Ashes a disappointing collection.
Vinge fans who expect to find any of the qualities that made her The Snow Queen a Hugo winner will b...
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In the following favorable review, Jones briefly discusses thematic and stylistic characteristics of Vinge 's short fiction.
Joan D. Vinge writes the kind of science fiction that might appe...
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In the following excerpt, Law analyzes the principal themes in Vinge's short fiction.
Joan D. Vinge's "Eyes of Amber" and Other Stories (1979) includes six short works ...
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In the following essay, Shreve examines the themes of language and understanding in Eyes of Amber.
The great difficulty with using language to communicate is, simply, that one does not always know ...
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In the following essay, Vinge discusses the origins of and the influences on her fiction, the creative process, and the role of women writers in the science fiction genre.
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
This impressive debut volume ["Fireship"] is composed of two novelettes…. [The title story is] a tightly constructed adventure story, told wit...
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Critical Essay by Sally Estes
When 16-year-old Cat, [protagonist of Psion] …, gets a chance to "volunteer" for a psi research project, he embarks on a tumultuous series of experi...
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Critical Essay by Carolyn Caywood
[Return of the Jedi—The Storybook Based on the Movie] simplifies the plot but covers the main action and reveals the crucial secrets…. It is an adequat...
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Critical Essay by Richard Law
[Joan D. Vinge is a] science fiction writer attuned to Existentialism, but her isolated or beleaguered characters survive what William Barrett calls the modern "e...
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Critical Essay by Robin G. Adams
Fireship actually houses two distinct mini-novels, Fireship and Mother and Child. Both are evidence of Vinge's rightful place as one of s-f's luminaries...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[With "Eyes of Amber and Other Stories"] Joan Vinge has put together a rewarding collection of six carefully crafted, emotionally rich stories. Inclu...
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Critical Essay by Anthony R. Lewis
[The title novella in Fireship] is a competent adventure story. The protagonist, whom we do not meet until late in the story, has by his existence called into being...
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Critical Essay by Anthony R. Lewis
