Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre5/30/2023 Snake journeys across the post-apocalyptic wastes of a future Earth with three serpents healing the sick and caring for the dying. I am unsure how much was added, subtracted, or rewritten. McIntyre’s ingenious generation ship short story “The Mountains of Sunset, The Mountains of Dawn” (1974) with its winged-alien voyagers, I savored Dreamsnake‘s original blend of feminist science fiction and post-apocalyptic quest tale.īefore the review proper, a brief publication note: Dreamsnake (1978) is a fix-up of three novelettes–“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” (1973) (won the 1974 Nebula for Best Novelette and nominated for the 1974 Hugo), “The Serpent’s Death” (1978), and “The Broken Dome” (1978). I’ve now tackled the only pre-1990 Hugo Award-winning novel I had yet to read. Won the 1979 Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award for Best Novel. George Underwood’s cover for the 1979 edition.
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