August 28, 1948 – April 1, 2019
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. McIntyre also collaborated with Ursula K. Le Guin, and was a founding member of the Book View Cafe. All proceeds from sales of her individual short stories and novels at BVC benefit Clarion West Writers Workshop.
For a collection of stories in her memory, copies of Remembering Vonda are still available online.
Information about new releases of her works can be found on the Clarion West website and at vondanmcintyre.net.
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$1.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-519-9
A BVC Original Short Story
Evolution. Reproduction. Power. War.
A companion piece to Nebula-nominated “Little Faces.”
BEST OF THE YEAR:
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: VOL 10, ed. Jonathan Strahan
The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, ed. Rich Horton
Locus 2015 Recommended Reading List
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-096-5
“The finest alternate history ever, lighthearted and wise… a luminous, radiant novel.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the court of Louis XIV, at the balance point between alchemy and the dawn of modern science, Marie-Josèphe de la Croix cares for the sea monster — the mermaid — captured for the Sun King by her brother Yves, Jesuit natural philosopher.
Now in production as a major motion picture, filmed at the chateau de Versailles, France, and Melbourne, Australia.
The movie of the Nebula-winning novel, produced by Bill Mechanic (executive producer of The New World) and Pandemonium Films (Coraline), directed by Sean McNamara, stars Kaya Scodelario, Pierce Brosnan, Fan Bing Bing, Crystal Clarke, William Hurt.
McIntyre visited the set during filming at Versailles and blogged about the experience.
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The Starfarers Quartet Book 1
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-092-7
The starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system.
The Alien Contact Team — physicist Victoria Fraser MacKenzie, geneticist Stephen Thomas Gregory, geographer Satoshi Lono, and alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage — and the rest of the faculty and staff prepare for humanity’s most ambitious exploratory expedition.
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The Starfarers Quartet Book 2
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN: 978-1-61138-093-4
J.D. Sauvage believes the Alien Contact Team is on the brink of meeting an alien civilization for the first time.
Then, suddenly, all contact ceases.
The Starfarers Quartet comprises:
Starfarers
Transition
Metaphase
Nautilus
The quartet is also available in The Starfarers Quartet Omnibus.
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The Starfarers Quartet Book 3
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-095-8
Abandoned by the interstellar civilization and the alien humans, Starfarer and its faculty and staff meet the mysterious squidmoth, Nemo.
The Starfarers Quartet comprises:
Starfarers
Transition
Metaphase
Nautilus
The quartet is also available in The Starfarers Quartet Omnibus.
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The Starfarers Quartet Book 4
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-094-1
The alien contact team meets Civilization.
The event does not go smoothly.
The Starfarers Quartet comprises:
Starfarers
Transition
Metaphase
Nautilus
The quartet is also available in The Starfarers Quartet Omnibus.
Starfarers • Transition • Metaphase • Nautilus
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$12.99 (Omnibus) ISBN 978-1-61138-024-8
All four Starfarers novels in a single ebook.
The starship Starfarer is poised for our first voyage to another star system.
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-083-5
She gave up her heart quite willingly.
After the operation…
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (SF novel for younger readers)
ISBN: 978-1-61138-082-8
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret — and no one she can trust.
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A Sherlock Holmes Scientific Romance
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-086-6
In which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hires Mr Sherlock Holmes to investigate crop circles, and Dr Watson demonstrates to Mr Holmes the usefulness of astronomy.
“The Adventure of the Field Theorems” was originally published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit and is reprinted with the kind permission of the editors, Mike Resnick & Martin Harry Greenberg.
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$1.29 (Flash Fiction) ISBN: 978-1-61138-109-2
“In an expected decision today, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed its definition of Corporations as persons, and redefined organic beings as unpersons.”
A Book View Café original.
General Useful Information,
&
Other Opinionated Comments
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-191-7
By popular demand: a chapbook collecting all the Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy, including a new Pitfall, #14: “Everything’s in the Right Place!”
The first 13 Pitfalls were previously published in Book View Café’s anthology Brewing Fine Fiction.
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Tales Newly Twisted
Edited by Deborah J. Ross and Phyllis Irene Radford
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-155-9
Not your grandmother’s fairy tales…
From the far-ranging imaginations of Book View Café authors comes this delirious collection of classic tales newly twisted into dark, dangerous, and occasionally hilarious re-tellings. From the golden isles of Greece to the frozen north, from fairytale castles to urban slums, join us on an unforgettable journey!
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Advice for Writers from the Authors
at Book View Café
edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff & Pati Nagle
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-0-98284-403-8
“Check any bookstore and you’ll find a host of titles on writing. Some are good, some not so good. Every author has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. But in Brewing Fine Fiction; Advice For Writers From the Bookview Café, you get a smorgasbord of professional advice and expertise. From the plausibility of fantasy, by Ursula LeGuin, to Deborah Ross’s comments on reviews, you’ll find every facet of the craft and writing life covered. For the wealth of information, experience, and diversity, all under one cover, you can’t beat it.” — Mary Rosenblum, Longridge Writers Group Instructor
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Edited by Phyllis Irene Radford
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-0-98284-402-1
From the concrete canyons of the modern city to the halls of ancient kings, from deepest ocean to cosy homes in sprawling suburbs, nowhere and no one is immune to magic. But as many forms as magic takes, there always arrives a hero to accept the challenge, and sometimes, to pay the price.
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A Book View Café Anthology
Edited by Mindy Klasky
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-686-8
A BVC Original
Nineteen stories of triumph in the past, present, future, and other worlds.
“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”
Those were the words of Mitch McConnell after he banned Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking on the floor of the United States Senate.
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Edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-065-1
The mind tells the story–but the heart inspires it with dreams of what might be waiting Out There.
With evocative stories of lost comrades, alien first contacts, and strange, often unexpected confrontations with evolving science, Rocket Boy And The Geek Girls embraces both our pulp-dream past and cutting-edge future.
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