“All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.”

—Vonda N. McIntyre, Aztecs, 1977

Requiescat in pace, Vonda. Thank you for all of the incredible worlds. (For me personally, I discovered her work through 1981’s The Entropy Effect, one of the first Star Trek novels I’d ever read—though, I wouldn’t find it until the early 90s.)