Dreamsnake
Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781433254888 (1433254883)
Publish date: November 1st 2008
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
So hard to review a book that I loved so much as a teenager, and still read through rose-coloured glasses. And again with the crossover - although this reads very much like high fantasy, and that's what you'd probably think it was from the blurb, it's really a far-future post-apocalyptic sci-fi. ...
The cover below is the edition of "Dreamsnake" that snagged my attention back in 1980. The graphics were original and intriguing. Winning the Hugo AND the Nebula awards placed it alongside "Dune ", "The Left Hand of Darkness", "Ringworld " and "The Dispossessed " all by authors I knew well. Yet I ha...
I've chosen the edition of Dreamsnake with the cover that snagged my attention back in 1980. The graphics were original and intriguing. Winning the Hugo AND the Nebula awards placed it alongside "Dune ", "The Left Hand of Darkness", "Ringworld " and "The Dispossessed " all by authors I knew well. Ye...
4 of 5! It's science-fiction, all right. But the technological drive is less expressive and challenging. if after reading a sci-fi book a boy/girl doesn't become inclined into physics, chemistry or biology (of course, one can list humanitarian sciences too) the book is more fiction than SCIENCE fict...
This 1978 novel won both the Nebula and Hugo Award for Best Novel in its year, which puts it in very select company with Herbert's Dune, Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Card's Ender's Game--less than a couple of dozen in all. And no, I wouldn't think it quite belongs in su...
10 years ago
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