73 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge

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

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.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

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

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

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.