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Joan D. Vinge

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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.


— Joan D. Vinge


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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 engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.


— Joan D. Vinge


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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 characters in it.


— Joan D. Vinge


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


— Joan D. Vinge


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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.


— Joan D. Vinge


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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.


— Joan D. Vinge


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


— Joan D. Vinge


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The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.


— Joan D. Vinge


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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.


— Joan D. Vinge


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The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.


— Joan D. Vinge


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Vinge's first publiJoan D. Vinged story "Tin Soldier" a novelette appeared in Orbit 14 in 1974. Her novel Psion was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Joan.

Vinge (pron. : /ˈvɪndʒi/; born 2 April 1948 in Baltimore Maryland as Joan Carol Dennison) is an American science fiction author.

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