“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.” ThinkingWritingFirstsCharacterStoriesWantedNextStrongNovelFemaleDecidedFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Joan D. Vinge
“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.” WorldNeedsStoriesUniverseNaturalSnowQueensNatural WorldEquilibriumSnow Queen Author:Joan D. Vinge
“Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.” StoriesAgeCertainCultureSeaThemeUnconsciousGoddessEmergingVenus Author:Joan D. Vinge