Vonda N. McIntyre dead

[Ped]

Vonda McIntyre died on Monday. She was a prolific sci-fi writer and did a lot of novelizations for Star Trek, including Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and Voyage Home.


Also,

She was responsible for giving Hikaru Sulu his first name, a detail that made its way into canon in The Undiscovered Country. She also wrote the Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, The Crystal Star. She won SFWA’s Service Award in 2010, and her novel The Moon and Sun was adapted to film under the title of The King’s Daughter.

https://www.tor.com/2019/04/02/vonda...yre-1948-2019/

[CaptainCrunch]

Very sad, the novelizations of the Wrath of Kahn and UDC were really really good.


Crystal Star though is universally hated by Star Wars Legends fans and we got the gold covered slab of meat interdimensional alien Waru.

[Sr. Mints]

I dont know what's weirder, that this thread exists on this message board, or that I knew who she was immediately