After Fireflood and Other Stories (coll 1979), which assembled her best short work, McIntyre became associated with the Star Trek universe, producing the Recursive Star Trek: The Entropy Effect ( 1981) and three film Ties – Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( 1984) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986) – as well as Star Trek: Enterprise: The First Adventure ( 1986). That book likewise features a female protagonist with singular empathic powers: she is a sneak thief – the plot is complicated – who manages to escape Earth's last city with a Japanese poet from the stars and a virtuous "pseudosib" (the bad "twin" having been killed in the city) and in due course escapes Earth entirely, with the prognosis that she will become a successful starfarer.Īurora: Beyond Equality (anth 1976) with Susan J Anderson is an important Original Anthology, containing Feminist sf stories set in worlds where equality of a sort has been achieved, with slightly less than half of the book given over to two central tales whose auctorial linkage was not then known, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr, and "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light" as by Raccoona Sheldon, a pseudonym infrequently used by Alice Sheldon. The book version goes on to recount her quest for a replacement snake, a search through a strongly depicted Ruined Earth environment which includes gruelling experiences in the City that had previously served as the central venue for McIntyre's first novel, The Exile Waiting ( 19). The female protagonist of both story and book is a healer in a desolated primitive venue, the violent and destructive superstitions of whose inhabitants lead to her losing her healer snake, with which she was linked through complex imprinting. She began to publish work of genre interest with "Breaking Point" for Venture in February 1970, and gained prominence with "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" (October 1973 Analog), which won a Nebula for Best Novelette and served as the initial section of Dreamsnake (fixup 1978), her best-known novel to date, for which she won another Nebula as well as a Hugo and a Locus Award.
(1948-2019) US author and geneticist, one of the earliest successful graduates of the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop, which she attended in 1970.
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