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Did you miss the virtual book launch event for The Curve of the World? You can catch the entire discussion on the Clarion West Youtube Channel here: youtu.be/q9TYaaDKqJU?...!
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Have you signed up for this Saturday's virtual book launch celebrating Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, The Curve of the World? It will take place on May 16 at 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time. RSVP here: bit.ly/48L9p7V
RSVP link: bit.ly/48L9p7V! Vonda McIntyre was a trailblazing Hugo and Nebula-winning writer who published many beloved books before she passed away in 2019. Her final novel, The Curve of the World, is available today! Will you join us for tomorrow's online celebration? It's free and open to all.
Check out this month’s reviews of SF/F by Samantha Mills, Andrea Harrison, Matt Dinniman, Vonda N McIntyre, S.A. Barnes, Andrew Ludington, Catherine Wells, Sam Beckbessinger, Sunyi Dean, and Kylie Lee Baker in our Book Nook column at www.thenamelesszine.org/Book_Nook.php
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THE CURVE OF THE WORLD by Vonda McIntyre
This world is round. Loving sailors court its waves, bathe in sea currents happily sharing secrets with them, waters telling them where to go and how best to navigate their way. With persistence as gentle and stubborn as worn stones, multiple award winner…
My late friend Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel is out. GeekWire's @b0yle.bsky.social has the details.
And "The Curve of the World" is important to the Clarion West Writers Workshop, too, which Vonda founded and benefits from its publication.
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"In a sense, the tale is complementary to Homer’s Odyssey, which is getting the Hollywood treatment this summer in a movie starring Matt Damon as Odysseus. “It’s a side-by-side emergence of a literal hero’s journey and a literal heroine’s journey,” Shawl says." Alan Boyle on The Curve of the World
We’re hosting a reading and conversation for Vonda N. McIntyre's final novel, The Curve of the World, in Seattle on July 16. Join @nisishawl.bsky.social and Theo Downes-Le Guin, head of the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation, to celebrate at Elliott Bay Book Company. RSVP: bit.ly/3RPO4Vb
Register for The Curve of the World, a book launch event with @nisishawl.bsky.social and @theoactually.bsky.social on July 16 at 7 pm at Elliott Bay Book Company!
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"Readers will be enthralled by the author’s worldbuilding, and even more captivated by the lush prose" — Kirkus Reviews
We were thrilled to see this starred review on Kirkus Reviews for The Curve of the World!
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Nisi Shawl will read a passage from Vonda N. McIntyre’s final book, The Curve of the World, followed by a conversation with Theo Downes-Le Guin focusing on the life and legacy of Vonda and her…
This world is round. Loving sailors court its waves, bathe in sea currents happily sharing secrets with them, waters telling them where to go and how best to navigate their way. With persistence as gentle and stubborn as worn stones, multiple award winner Vonda N. McIntyre shows us versions of everyday Minoan activities based on common sense and historical research, then flings us outward from that safe harbor into the wildest of adventures.
The Curve of the World, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Last Book, Reading & Discussion with Nisi Shawl, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin The Curve of the World is Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel.
In the late McIntyre’s alternate-history novel, leaders in a matriarchal community set sail to reunite their foster children with their families of origin.
Upcoming Book Launch Events for The Curve of the World:
May 16 at 11AM PT: Virtual Book Launch with @nisishawl.bsky.social, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin
July 16 at 7PM PT: Reading and discussion with @nisishawl.bsky.social and @theoactually.bsky.social at Elliott Bay Book Company!
Vonda N. McIntyre
Science-fiction writer Vonda McIntyre completed the manuscript for a different kind of Odyssey - from ancient Crete to the Pacific Northwest - just before she died in 2019. Now "The Curve of the World" has finally been published, and that's a cause for celebration. cosmiclog.com/2026/05/15/l...
Long before Homer wrote the Odyssey, Minoan seafarers were plying the trade routes of the Mediterranean and spinning stories of adventure — but when it comes to imagination on an outlandish scale, …
