David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > One thing though - I suspect you didn't mean the first Vinge to > win a best > novel Hugo. > > ISFDB doesn't list it, but I'm guessing Joan won for something before > 1993? I went to the WorldCon in Denver in 1981, where they had an exhibit for _Dark Crystal_, Joan Vinge won a Hugo for _The Snow Queen_, and I went to a reading where she read a story from her ex-husband. The story being "True Lies". She, like everybody else was tickled by that story.