Born this day: 04/02/1948
Joan Vinge is an American SF author best known for The Snow Queen, a planetary romance that reimagines Andersen's fairy tale on a distant alien world. It won the 1981 Hugo and the Locus Award. Her novelette "Eyes of Amber" won the 1978 Hugo. Her Cat novels, starting with Psion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_D._Vinge

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #JoanVinge @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com

Art by Michael Whelan