Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #11 February 2015 | Page 30

Book Review by Wendy
Van Camp
at the University of Washington and graduated
with honours. Before going on to graduate school,
she attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in
Clarion, Pennsylvania in 1970. This is a professional science fiction writer’s school. She went on
to study genetics in graduate school and made the
self-discovery that a research scientist makes a
wonderful background for a science fiction writer.
She is a woman of many talents: from riding horses in hunting, jumping, and three-phase events,
earning a black-belt in Aikido, designing websites, partaking in public access television, crochet, and other handcrafts based on mathematical
principals.
Ms. McIntyre became an ongoing instructor of
the Clarion Writer’s Workshop, now in its new
locations on the West Coast of the United States
and has been a workshop writing instructor at
various colleges and conventions. She belongs to
the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and several feminist organizations.

Book Name: Dreamsnake
Author: Vonda N. McIntyre
First Published: 1978
Awards: Hugo, Nebula, Locus
Vonda N. McIntyre was born in 1948 in Louisville,
Kentucky. She moved around a great deal during her
childhood, finally settling in Seattle, Washington with
her family. She earned a bachelor of science in biology

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McIntyre has been writing since her early 20s.
Her first novel, The Exile Waiting being published
by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1975. It was followed
by her Nebula award winning novel Dreamsnake,
based on her Analog short entitled Of Mist, and
Grass, and Sand. At that point, the author turned
to writing Star Trek novels for Paramount and
landed the job of writing the novelizations of
their hit movies: Star Trek II, III, and IV. She also
wrote a fan fiction novel for Paramount entitled
The Entropy Effect that was extremely popular
with Star Trek fans.