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by Vonda N. McIntyre, Maxwell Glick (Reader)

Two linked stories by Vonda N. McIntyre: “Wings” and “The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn.” Alien people abandon their dying planet in a generation ship, but a few are left behind.“Wings” was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.

Genres: Science Fiction, Audiobook

MP3 CD

Published February 21, 2017

About the author

Vonda Neel McIntyre was a U.S. science fiction author. She was one of the first successful graduates of the Clarion Science fiction writers workshop. She attended the workshop in 1970. By 1973 she had won her first Nebula Award, for the novelette "Of Mist, and Grass and Sand." This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The novelette and novel both concern a female healer in a desolate primitivized venue. McIntyre's debut novel was The Exile Waiting which was published in 1975. Her novel Dreamsnake won the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for best novel in 1978 and her novel The Moon and the Sun won the Nebula in 1997. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterprise: The First Adventure and The Entropy Effect. She wrote the novelizations of the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two linked short stories, one about individuals left behind when their people leave their dying planet and the other about the last individual on the generation ships who still remembers the home planet. I found the second story particularly moving. Listened to as an Audible Channels offering.

[Joachim Boaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review of "Wings" (1973): https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

Review of “The Mountains of Sunset, The Mountains of Dawn” (1974): https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

[Anrui Gu · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most beautiful English read I've had in two years. Don't think of the characters as crazy, hyper-emotional, irrelevant creatures; dig deep into your psyche and find the part that longs for the wind and sky, that holds too much pride, and that craves for love.

[Elaysee · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Wings" is about the people who remained, "Mountains" about the people on the ship. A lot of race/culture building in a small space.