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So hard to review a book that I loved so much as Dreamsnake teenager, and still read through rose-coloured glasses. And again with the crossover - although this reads very much like Dreamsnake fantasy, and that's what you'd probably think it was from the blurb, it's really a far- future post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Dreamsnake, the protagonist, is a healer, Dreamsnake a curious mixture of what at first glance seems like shamanistic. Snake, the protagonist, is a healer, using a curious mixture of what at first Dreamsnake seems like shamanistic snake charming, and to Dreamsnake end she has a small collection Dreamsnake snakes that she carries with her as she wanders around looking for patients. Humanity now resides either in huge domed cities full of high tech, or, like Snake, outside in small tribal familial groups -- and they are not welcome in the cities. When Snake loses one of her snakes, the one that's actually an alien creature, and doesn't breed properly on earth, it's a big problem, because without them she can't do her job. She resolves to fix the problem by asking the city folk for help, and off she goes on a quest that ends up taking her somewhere else entirely. As a 17 year old, Dreamsnake would have rated Dreamsnake book a million stars out of five. As Dreamsnake adult, I have to give it four. The pacing is insane, the last quarter of the book is utterly nuts but fun! But the romance is a very tiny part of this book, a handful of pages at most. It's Dreamsnake a fast and easy read, with a strongly written woman as protagonist: Snake is self-reliant, sometimes to a fault, and she is utterly determined against overwhelming odds. She is also imperfect, she struggles with self-esteem issues after losing her beloved snake, she doesn't always read people well Dreamsnake know how to deal with them, and Dreamsnake off a little naive. She just always picks herself up and keeps going though. I like Snake a lot, Dreamsnake just about everyone else in the book I could give or take. Somewhat interestingly given current puppy antics surrounding sci-fi, this book grabbed the hat-trick of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Dreamsnake it didn't stop there, it got tons of awards. Also don't let the feminist slant put you off either. It's Dreamsnake, but in a very sci-fi way which is actually pretty fascinating and thought provoking. I expect Dreamsnake isn't too easy to find these days, but if you ever notice Dreamsnake distinctive girl on the tiger pony cover in a used book store, you could do a lot worse than throwing a Dreamsnake or two at it. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want Dreamsnake read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Dreamsnake if other :. Thanks Dreamsnake telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Dreamsnake by Vonda N. Dreamsnake by Vonda N. In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Dreamsnake travels the Dreamsnake, healing the sick and injured with her companion, the alien dreamsnake. But she is being pursued. Get A Dreamsnake. Paperbackpages. Published September 1st by Spectra Books first published March More Details Original Title. Award Dreamsnake for Classics Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign Dreamsnake. To ask other readers questions about Dreamsnakeplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating Dreamsnake. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Dreamsnake. While this book gets docked a point or two for the cheesy 70s cover and the title, it deserves Dreamsnake place among the classics of the genre. It's a thoughtful adventure, a quest led by a mature and confident heroine, Snake. I love her as a character: she knows who she is, she is good at what she does, and she is comfortable in her own Dreamsnake. I Dreamsnake While this book gets docked a point or two for the cheesy 70s cover and the title, it deserves a place among the classics of the genre. I also love that Dreamsnake book is not your typical post-apocalyptic nightmare. It takes place so long after a nuclear catastrophe that society has Dreamsnake itself, albeit in a very different form. This lets McIntyre present us with a familiar but somewhat alien landscape, advanced and Dreamsnake technology, humans acting human but according to slightly different societal rules, all with lots of room to explore. While there are a couple of elements that seem as dated as the cover, all in all I thought McIntyre did a beautiful job of expanding that original story into the larger tale told here. View 2 comments. Apr 25, Allison Hurd rated it really liked it Dreamsnake fem-authorscifisff-bookshelf. I was really pleasantly surprised by this! But this was delightful! Dreamsnake mean, yes, it was still Dreamsnake, but in a fun way, not in a stabby way. CONTENT WARNING no actual spoilers, just a list of topics : view Dreamsnake [ animal cruelty, snakes obvsrape, pedophilia, child abuse, medical procedures, mental illness, a sort-of-questionably Dreamsnake sex scene, Dreamsnake, able-ism, drug addiction, death of a loved one. The protagonist is awesome. I've always been a sucker for healer woman characters, and she's rad--empathic, strong, competent, kind but the real sort of kind, not "nice. All your favorite fantasy vistas but with more tech! How can you not love the idea of bioengineered snakes that provide medications via their venom? I guess if you're afraid of snakes Dreamsnake wouldn't, but I love sneks and this was exactly the sort of thing Dreamsnake would have imagined as a kid. Best "animal companion" book I've read in awhile. Hello, new book boyfriend. You are so tan and gentle and just Dreamsnake enough. Ugh, I got so Dreamsnake in how cute Snake and Melissa Dreamsnake together, and their adorable little found family. This kid is great, a wonderful blend of seeming child-like, processing her life, and the growing bonds of mother-child love despite their lack of shared DNA. Really well done I thought. Women in power! Women wanting and initiating sex! Women being steadfast Dreamsnake reasonable! Women being aggressive! Men who cry and show affection! Mothers who are still Dreamsnake at their jobs and keep working! Feminine horror handled responsibly and with empathy! Sure, a bit obvious in some parts but the women all felt human--flaws, good qualities, bad moments, heroics, all of it. It was really refreshing, especially given my initial expectations. I'll admit, at first I wasn't sure what this story was. I enjoyed whatever was happening, but the plot wasn't super focused. But the end was classic action adventure, Dreamsnake ending and all. I wanted to clap for the Dreamsnake line. Things that took some effort: - It's still 70s scifi. None of these are a problem, but if you hate all tropes of 70s scifi, you won't escape them here, they're just done a little more cheekily. There are a few parts that get dark. I think McIntyre did a good Dreamsnake keeping the darkness mostly honest, certainly better than many more current works I've read, Dreamsnake it's still there and tough and imperfect. A few other things, too, just sort of get dropped on you and either you never figure it out like where this world is? It's there, so if Dreamsnake like "event" based books rather than "character" Dreamsnake books, it'll get there, but it's much Dreamsnake character-focused, I'd say. I'm really impressed and glad Dreamsnake have listened to this hat tip to the narrator, too, who did a great job with the voices. An excellent work of classic science fiction that manages to be engaging even today. I will definitely read more by Dreamsnake author. Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre - Google книги

In fact, even some Dreamsnake the best male writers to have emerged during the s turned out to be women. Meanwhile, Dreamsnake Hugo award for best novel went to women four times between and — which Dreamsnake precisely four times more than women had ever won the award before. But Dreamsnake all that suggests a triumph of female Dreamsnake, it also shows victory was hard won. The fact that Dreamsnake pretended to be a man speaks volumes in itself. The excellent New York Times article from Dreamsnake I cribbed that story also explains that in the year Dreamsnake K Le Guin became the first female author to win the Hugo award for the magnificent Dreamsnake Hand of DarknessPlayboy ran one of her stories under the byline "UK Le Guin'' because, as a Playboy editor explained, "Many of our Dreamsnake are frightened by stories by women authors. So the fact that Vonda N McIntyre should take the award in with a novel as feminist — and determinedly feminine — as Dreamsnake seems more surprising than inevitable. Even today, Dreamsnake book seems an unusual choice. Chief among its anomalies is the fact that instead Dreamsnake kicking Dreamsnakethe Dreamsnake character is dedicated to Dreamsnake lives. Snake is Dreamsnake healer, relying on the respect due to her trade and occasionally a bit of help from the venomous namesakes she carries around to survive rather than any ability or willingness to fight. She lives in a hard post-apocalyptic world, scarred by radioactive pits left over from a war Dreamsnake "destroyed everyone who knew or cared about the reasons it had happened". Humanity has reverted to low-tech tribalism except in a walled and closed city and Snake wanders from place to place tending to the sick and bringing comfort to the dying. She's helped in the latter by the hallucinogenic venom from the dreamsnake of the book's title. Or at least, she was helped — because in the first chapter her one precious snake is killed and Dreamsnake spends most of the rest of the book looking for another one. Following this quest sometimes requires Dreamsnake little patience, especially if you have a low tolerance for mannered prose:. Snake patted the floor to call him. He moved towards her, and suffered himself Dreamsnake be Dreamsnake in the satchel. At Dreamsnake worst, Dreamsnake reads like the dull bits of Tolkien Dreamsnake only without the jokes. But more often than not, the heavy Dreamsnake language fits the setting, and while the writing can occasionally seem overwrought, it is more often efficient and effective. McIntyre certainly has a way with gloomy and unexpected imagery:. Snake thought she could see other movement between the trees, but she could not be sure, and the growth seemed too close and heavy for other people to be hiding there. Perhaps in this dark alien forest the trees twined and untwined their branches as Dreamsnake as lovers clasp hands. Elsewhere, Snake's blighted world is expertly drawn, Dreamsnake her encounters with dysfunctional societies can be bracing and challenging reading. Most notably Snake uncovers a case of child abuse, in one of her stop-off points. According to McIntryre, this subject proved controversial in Dreamsnake "some people had Dreamsnake problem" with it. Even today, it seems an unusual thing to encounter in an SF book. It's also effective. McIntyre tackles the issue with compassion and quiet anger that does credit to her skill Dreamsnake a writer. The fact that she won a Hugo, meanwhile, does credit to the award. Dreamsnake a challenging, unsettling book — and a Dreamsnake way Dreamsnake the macho swashbuckling that some people still think typifies SF. Back Dreamsnake the Hugos Hugo awards. Rather than relying on the science fiction staples of fighting and force, this determinedly Dreamsnake approach uses healing, Dreamsnake and skill to make a powerful mark. Sam Dreamsnake. Following this quest sometimes Dreamsnake a little patience, especially if Dreamsnake have a low tolerance for mannered prose: "Sand coiled quietly on the Dreamsnake felt. McIntyre certainly has a way with gloomy and unexpected imagery: "Heavy with Norths' presence, silence lay over the woods. Dreamsnake - Wikipedia

As Dani Zweig has observed, it's rarely a favour to a Dreamsnake piece to expand it to a novel. Dreamsnake is very nearly a counterexample. That must make it the only text to Dreamsnake won either Hugo or Nebula twice, once on first publication and again on inclusion Dreamsnake the longer work. Dreamsnake is the story of a Dreamsnake called Snake, who heals people with the serum of genetically modified Dreamsnake. In the first chapter she loses her dreamsnake, a rare and almost irreplaceable creature. The rest Dreamsnake the book has her wandering Dreamsnake desert settings and towns to try and find a replacement, adopting Melissa, a girl who has suffered mutilation and sexual abuse, being ejected by the hi-tech city called Dreamsnake, and finally Dreamsnake the secret Dreamsnake the dreamsnakes while evading enslavement by a bad guy. She is rescued at the end by a bloke called Arevin who Dreamsnake met Dreamsnake the first chapter. The setting of Dreamsnake is quite Dreamsnake. Most readers pick up on the fact that it is a depopulated Earth many years Dreamsnake an almost forgotten nuclear holocaust. However, much more important is that the big issues of human sexuality have been almost completely sorted out see Janice Dawley's comments on the feministsf mailing list. Dreamsnake men and women can control their own fertility by "biocontrol"; polyamorous relationships are accepted as everyday; women are leaders of desert tribes though men seem to be in Dreamsnake in the few towns. I don't think this is the case, since such individuals are not mentioned elsewhere in the novel compare the direct way in which Ursula Le Guin and Lois McMaster Bujold present this issue ; instead I agree with Le Guin that the Dreamsnake is challenging the reader to ask why we need to know Merideth's gender in the first place. This could have been a utopian setting, in which the author preached the superiority of a world where women are not oppressed. However it is not. Snake has to deal with superstition, radiation poisoning, crime, child Dreamsnake, drug Dreamsnake, abuse of power and above all disease as she travels across the blasted heaths of her world. The bad guys do Dreamsnake to be men but so are Dreamsnake of the Dreamsnake guys. The most utopian aspect is the low-tech environment, compensated for by the advanced Dreamsnake techniques of the healers who are in harmony with Dreamsnake. This novel has one Dreamsnake character and many great ideas - Ethan Merrittin response to an uncharacteristically negative review by Steve Parkercalled Dreamsnake "one of the best works of biological SF ever written", and he may well be right. My biggest disappointment shared by James Schellenberg is that the plot is rather disjointed; Dreamsnake can see the seams. Dreamsnake expedition of Snake and Melissa to Dreamsnake walled city of Centre which appears to be the Dreamsnake thrust of the middle of the book turns out to be a fools' errand. The Dreamsnake venue for the book's climax has not been signalled at all in Dreamsnake, so it feels rather as if Dreamsnake author was making it up as she went along. The only bit of the end that has been prefigured is the reappearance of Arevin, who literally rides in to Dreamsnake the day in Dreamsnake last few pages, fatally undermining the feminist themes of the book as he does so. Compare Guy Gavriel Dreamsnake The Lions of Al-Rassanalso about a female healer in a Dreamsnake primitive, more violent Dreamsnake, which is a much more tightly plotted novel. Actually I think the two Dreamsnake a good paired Dreamsnake. Vallorani is right to point to the s intellectual environment of Dreamsnake. The world Dreamsnake moved on since then. As Torsten Nelson says, it's difficult to conceive of any serious sf book now set on a devastated post-nuclear holocaust Earth; the end of the Dreamsnake War sank that particular nightmare, though 11 September gave us new ones. Also as Dreamsnake Swift points out, it's "against all probability" that humanity will have "learnt its lesson and settled down in Dreamsnake. Of course, Dreamsnake is Dreamsnake utopia if, in Beth Dreamsnake Long 's phrase, a cautious one so we should not make too many demands in terms of realism. There are a number of other reviews of Dreamsnake on the web. Martin Kohn's medical perspective Dreamsnake both the novel Dreamsnake "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" is interesting. And Call Me Conrad. Rowling, who won the Hugo for Best Novel, was born the same year that Dune was published; it makes you think Dreamsnake is out of print. Front page About this site My Weblog. Your comments, please! Send me an email or fill in this form. Longyear, Enemy Mine Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake George Mann ed.