Country United States Publication date 1979 ISBN 0-395-28422-8 Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | Language English Pages 281 Originally published 1979 Page count 281 Cover artist Charles J. Shields | |
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Media type Print Hardcover, Paperback Genres Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Vonda N McIntyre books, Science Fiction books | ||
Fireflood and Other Stories is the first collection of short work by Vonda N. McIntyre, published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin in 1979 and reprinted in paperback by Timescape Books in 1981. UK editions were issued by Gollancz in 1980 and by Pan Books in 1982; it was also issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Fireflood placed fifth in the annual Locus Poll for best collection.
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Reception
Thomas M. Disch gave the collection a mixed review, noting the "literary failings" of a talented but inexperienced writer. He faulted McIntyre's work for manifesting "two extraordinary features", which he suggested contributed to her success with her "chosen audience": first, "a worldview that divides everyone into an uncaring, imperceptive, closed-minded Them and a loving, hip, holistic, and victimized Us"; second, "a tendency toward tears." He praised McIntyre as "a talented storyteller [and] a writer who works at perfecting her craft and extending her range," singling out her ability to "write spare, modulated prose of varying intensity."