Online fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre

I’m making some of my work available in electronic form, at Book View Café and in formats for mobile devices right here: See the list below.

You’re welcome to download the work to your own system, to print a copy for yourself, or to read the work on your cell phone or ebook reader. Please don’t copy the stories to another website. You are welcome to link to the stories, but please link via this page or Book View Café so visitors can see the most recent additions.

If you enjoy the stories and would like to read more, you can buy my books in print form at Basement Full of Books, or you could make use of my experimental Writer Appreciation Button to send me some money. (PayPal calls this a “donation,” but it is not tax-deductible. It’s a gift. Gifts are always voluntary.)

If the experiment is successful, I’ll post more stories.

— Vonda N. McIntyre

Novel

The Moon and the Sun

• First eBook publication at Book View Café (Book View Café Bonus: “The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea”
• PDF
• Palm/Mobipocket (.prc)
• Web page (by chapter)
• Web page (one large file)
• Signed hardcover. Books make great gifts!
• Excerpt: The Truth
• Excerpt: Epilogue
• Awards & Honors

Short Fiction

“Misprint”

• “Misprint”
• PDF [91Kb]
• Palm/Mobipocket [.prc]
• First published in Nature 454, p252, “Futures” (09 Jul 2008)

“The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea”

• Written by VNM, illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin. First publication at Book View Café, 16 November 2008.

Elfleda

• Formats available on the website:
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  • [Palm/Mobipocket/prc]
  • [PDF]
• Reprinted in Between the Darkness & the Fire, ed. Jeffry Dwight.
• First published in New Dimensions 12, ed. Randall & Silverberg (Timescape, 1981)

The Adventure of the Field Theorems

• Formats available on the website:
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  • [Palm/Mobipocket/prc]
  • [PDF]
• April 2007: Reprinted on the website, [235Kb]
• First published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin Harry Greenberg, DAW 1995

Little Faces

• Formats available on the website:
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  • [Palm/Mobipocket/prc]
  • [PDF]
• Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005, ed. Jonathan Strahan
• Reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection, ed. Gardner Dozois
• First published in SciFiction, February 2005. Nebula nomination.

A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature

• Formats available on the website:
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  • [Palm/Mobipocket/prc]
  • [PDF]
• Reprinted in Year’s Best SF 11, ed. David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
• First published in Nature, February 2005

Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand

(Chapter 1 of Dreamsnake )

• Formats available on the website:
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  • [Palm/Mobipocket/prc]
  • [PDF]
• Reprinted in Fireflood & Other Stories
• Winner of the Nebula Award
• Chapter 1 of Dreamsnake (forthcoming on the website).
• First published in Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction October, 1973.