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Feminist science fiction author Vonda McIntyre dies at 70

Feminist science fiction author Vonda McIntyre dies at 70

BY SIDNEY BOKER ’21

On April 1, award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 70. According to her obituary in the Guardian, McIntyre was at the forefront of science fiction in the 1970s, inspired by other feminist authors like Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ. McIntyre wrote about women in a genre in which women usually weren’t represented and explored gender in many of her works.