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Vonda N. McIntyre is the author of Dreamsnake, which won both the Nebula Award and the Hugo award for best science fiction novel. The World Science Fiction Convention awards the Hugo after a vote by readers, while the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presents the Nebula. Dreamsnake has been published in thirteen languages, including Japanese and Polish. McIntyre wrote the best-selling novel versions of the screenplays for three of the popular Star Trek movies: The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home. Her audiotape adaptation of The Voyage Home, narrated by George Takei and Leonard Nimoy, was nominated for a Grammy.
She graduated as a Bachelor of Science from the honors program of the University of Washington. With several short-story sales to her credit, she spent a summer at the Clarion Writers Workshop. After a year of graduate work in genetics, she ventured out on her own as a free-lance writer.
She has exhibited hunters and jumpers, organized conferences, observed humpback whales in Alaska, and rafted in the white water of Idaho. She earned shodan (first degree black belt) in the martial art Aikido.
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