by Vonda N. McIntyre
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...
Dreamsnake has a strong female protagonist who learns and grows and overcomes her challenges, primarily with the help of friends she didn't think she needed at the beginning of the story. At the time of release, this was unusual, which may have helped win the Hugo.The setting is post-apocalyptic, bu...
Award-winning SF classic from 1978 that's marvelous for two-thirds of its length but feels too cut off to satisfy the way The moon and the sun did. It's very easy to forget that heroines like Snake weren't necessarily plentiful c. 1978
3.5 stars, but if I had read it when I was younger (and I wish I had), it would be a 5 star book to me.Snake is a healer on a post-apocalyptic Earth, off on her proving tour through the desert-lands, where healers typically do not travel. Along the way she has a mishap and she must then travel (fi...
Post-apocalyptic fantasy with magic snakes and true love- it's as though McIntyre wrote it for me. I wish I'd read it in the late 70s, when it was new. I found the story to be a bit dated stylistically but very absorbing and nicely done.
If I had lived in the distant past I think I would have been a sucker for travellers tales. I would have loved reading the travels of Marco Polo, or Viking tales of dragons and skraelings or the songs of Odysseus and his journeys. There's something in my character that just rises to the idea of sai...
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