Joan D. Vinge

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

#creatures #earth #end #fact #humans

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

#common #common ground #discovering #enough #find

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

#after #characters #decided #female #female characters

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

— Joan D. Vinge

#girl #moon #naive #native #out

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#myth #story

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

#far #humans #makes #maybe #never

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

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

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

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening

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

— Joan D. Vinge

#closed system #collapse #ecosystem #gas #our

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

#balance #designed #environment #intervals #long