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The shimmyographers like Icarus Wing keep dreamsnakes in tanks to produce dream mist which is used for making Vurt feathers. The Scribble had been bitten on the ankle by a dreamsnake during a trip when he was 17, with certain amount of Vurt remained in his organism thus enabling him entering the Vurt and traveling between the theaters featherless. The wound kept acting up every time The Scribble approached a dreamsnake. Tristan kept a line of dreamsnake skins pinned over his fireplace. Snake is one of those heroines who makes me cheer for the possibilities of science fiction. She is definitively her own person, tough and compassionate, not afraid to do good and yet aware of her power over the life of others. She is also ultra-competent, but she still admits to her vulnerabilities. In another refreshing bit of writing, McIntyre treats the sexuality of her characters with sensitivity and nuance. Dreamsnake tells a love story between Snake and Arevin, but this love story inverts all of the disturbing elements of convention. There is palpable chemistry between Snake and Arevin, but the resolution of the story does not involve Snake giving up her autonomy or essential traits to become an "ideal" lover. They end up helping each other, and maintaining the integrity of their own persons. Part of the charm of McIntyre's treatment of the post-collapse civilization is the sheer brevity. The first hint that this planet had a nuclear war comes nearly fifty pages in: The craters were so large, spread over such a distance, that they could have only one source. Nuclear explosions had blasted them. The war itself was long over, almost forgotten, for it had destroyed everyone who knew or cared about the reasons it had happened. A few pre-collapse bits of technology have survived and figure in the story, but again these are mainly breezed over. I was wary of reading this book due to my phobia of snakes. I realize well enough that snakes in my area of North America are harmless to humans and crucial to their ecological niche. I wanted to clap for the final 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 job keeping the darkness mostly honest, certainly better than many more current works I've read, but 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 you like "event" based books rather than "character" based books, it'll get there, but it's much more character- focused, I'd say. I'm really impressed and glad to 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 this author. View all 4 comments. This is a wonderfully patient, subtle, and intimate novel, unusually so in the SFF canon. My mother was a nurse, which led me to being was especially drawn in with the healer Snake as she made her way through her travels. Some of the pacing in the latter third was a little off, and there were aspects of the story of the major antagonist that didnt quite make sense, but overall Im very glad to have spent time with this multi-award-winning classic. May 23, Mike Moore rated it it was ok. Look, I read a lot of science fiction. Enough that I would mention it. So I have a pretty high tolerance for silliness. This book overwhelmed my tolerance and left me staggered by the sheer nonsense of it all. Welcome to a post-apocalyptic future where isolated communities blunder about in moral turpitude waiting for an oddly naive young woman to come straighten them out with good sense and her trusty snakes. You see, snakes are used as drug dispensers in the future, and the woman who's also Look, I read a lot of science fiction. You see, snakes are used as drug dispensers in the future, and the woman who's also named Snake is a healer, so she carries around a cobra and a rattler for medicinal purposes. She's been entrusted by her teachers to walk the earth like that Caine dude. They trained her in medicine and herpetology, but somehow neglected to mention that other people might have odd customs like not respecting other people's property, drug addiction or killing snakes. Each of these come as a profound shock when she encounters them. Anyway, off goes our intrepid heroine. She meets a series of people whose incredible obliviousness creates problems that she handily solves. The fact that the problems are sometimes horrible is pretty well negated by their ridiculousness. In one instance, I imagine the mayor of a town who was shocked and outraged by Snake's discovery of a rape victim saying to his trusted adviser after she leaves "Say, whose idea was it anyway to have a brutal and overbearing unmarried man become the guardian for a disfigured girl on the verge of puberty? In retrospect, that wasn't an obvious choice. There are numerous loose ends and holes in the book, but the book doesn't suffer for them because it seems perfectly obvious how they would all play out. If anything, I'm glad the author didn't bother to explain more. The publisher says: They called the healer Snake, and she bore the name proudly, for the medicine she distilled from the venom of the viper she carried with her was a potent cure; and the soothing power of her other companion, the alien dreamsnake, banished fear. But the primitive ignorance of those she served killed her dreamsnake and wrecked her career - for dreamsnakes were dreadfully rare, and Center would not grant her another. Snake's only hope was to find a new dreamsnake - and on her The publisher says: They called the healer Snake, and she bore the name proudly, for the medicine she distilled from the venom of the viper she carried with her was a potent cure; and the soothing power of her other companion, the alien dreamsnake, banished fear. Snake's only hope was to find a new dreamsnake - and on her quest, she was pursued by two implacable followers, one driven by love, one by fear and need. Me: I enjoyed this short little tale of a healer trying to find her place in the world, making mistakes as we all do and struggling to find a way out of a bad situation. Finding companionship, love and an adopted daughter. A strong female main character, solving problems competently yet accepting help when it is offered. A book which passes the Bechdel test with flying colours [there is more than one female character and they talk to each other about something besides men]. My only complaint was that it was too short—there were several interesting items which tickled my curiosity and made me wish that there was a sequel or that the original was a bit thicker, with more detail. For example, how did Earth get to this post-apocalyptic state? Who are the aliens who created the domes and brought the strange plants and dreamsnakes to Earth? Have they stuck around or who exactly is in the intact city dome? In a world where there are still so many books in which the female characters are stiff as cardboard or stereotypical caricatures , this book from the s really shines as a book where I felt real affection for Snake. She is a realistic woman, with emotions and dilemmas that I can relate to. A very odd book by modern standards, but one that is strikingly of its era. Manages to do some things very badly dialogue, most of the characterisation the central character is solid and likeable but a Mary Sue and not all that distinctive, while the supporting cast are mostly two or fewer -dimensional and also somewhat MSish , a lot of the plot details , yet do others very well descriptive prose; setting and its exploration, some of the emotional stuff. Sort of like a less-good Ursula Le A very odd book by modern standards, but one that is strikingly of its era. Sort of like a less-good Ursula Le Guin novel, really. Slow, meandering social science fiction. Probably not selling it well. It is really interesting in its setting, and in the way it gradually reveals the nature of the setting, and also in its overarching plot it doesn't have much of one, so what it does have is very free, and hence surprising. Special mention should be made of the idea of a society that is in some ways more backward than ours, but in other ways more developed - normally, primitive or post-apocalyptic societies are just that, but McIntyre takes the more interesting and probably more realistic approach that some skills and technologies are able to survive even a general deterioriation in economic conditions, and maybe even may continue to progress. I think in the end I probably came away valuing it more as an interesting demonstration of what can be done in SF than as a novel in its own right, which I guess is both a compliment and a criticism. My fuller review as usual is over here on my blog May 12, Diane rated it it was amazing Shelves: diane-s-meager-effort , sffbc-book-shelf , women-of-the-future-challenge , feminist-sffu , buddy-read-book-club-read , science-fiction , audio. My second reading, this time as an audiobook. Strangely, I had little to no recollection of the plot after the first chapter, the original short story, and that only the main event. So it was like reading it for the first time again. I love the intimate nature of the book and the glimpses of a post-apocalyptic world influenced by off-worlders and some high-tech. It was an interesting approach. The main plot, which was not always clear lose a Dreamsnake, work to get a new one and figure out how My second reading, this time as an audiobook. The main plot, which was not always clear lose a Dreamsnake, work to get a new one and figure out how to get more , took the Healer, Snake, on horseback from small, isolated community to small, isolated community. View 1 comment. Dreamsnake is a standalone novel set in Earths distant future, at some point after a nuclear war, featuring a young woman named Snake. Snake is a healer, and healers use snakes to heal illnesses such as tumors and infections. The titular Dreamsnake is a special and rare snake used to help a patient have pleasant dreams or, if theres nothing that can be done to save that patient, to help them die without pain. I have a few complaints, but this was an interesting and fast read. I enjoyed the characters and I enjoyed the story. I particularly liked Melissa. That leads to one of my other complaints -- the world-building. The setting was really interesting and hinted at all sorts of cool elements, but I was left wanting more. That whole thing was just ridiculous to me, and the story would have worked better without it. The instalove side plot was only a small portion of the story, and the world-building helped add interest to the story even though I was left a little unsatisfied due to its lack of depth. The main thing is that I stayed interested in the story throughout and was satisfied with how it was wrapped up. View all 3 comments. The story is of Snake, a healer who has lost one of her prized serpents which she uses to help people, and her journey to continue to help anyone she can. McIntyre's compassion for her characters is evidently mirrored in Snake, Arevin, Melissa, and the world she has created -- even if the world and its inhabitants are far from perfect. I found myself truly 4 stars I was drawn in immediately to McIntyre's muted, intimate portrayal of characters inhabiting a far flung, post-apocalyptic world. I found myself truly caring for many characters within pages of their respective introductions. What strikes me most about this world is how strangely progressive it is in a lot of ways, particularly with regard to sexual education and relationships, but has created new ways in which to torment those who don't fit the mold. McIntyre may be an optimist, but she also has a finger on the negative impulses of humanity. Honestly, I was kind of surprised at the publishing date of -- it's not dated in the slightest. Though I enjoyed the characters and story very much, I was a bit unsatisfied with some of the elements -- particularly the lost plot threads of aliens and the underground city. I would have loved to explore both in much more depth, but I suppose they weren't terribly important to the central narrative. There were also a few parts which dragged, but nothing which took away from my overall pleasure of existing in McIntyre's world for a few days. Too bad there isn't a sequel! Aug 06, Silvana rated it really liked it Shelves: female-nonbinary-authors , mine-mine-mine , reading-with-friends , sci-fi , sffreading- challenge , stand-alones , wotf-challenge , sf-novel-novella. Glad I finally read this. Here's my hopefully non spoilery responses: I loved the world the most. It's a type of post apocalyptic one that I've never encountered, quite alien but also still retain most of the Earthy parts. I loved the technology, biotech, genetic engineering, everytime the book talks about tech my ears just pricked up. As for the relationship among Glad I finally read this. As for the relationship among characters, it actually contained a pairing that I very rarely read in SFF so it definitely whet my appetite for more. Plus, of course the relationship between Snake and her uh, snakes. Some parts of the book did not work for me, though. There are some content warnings including child abuse that's pretty triggery and one romance was just underdeveloped. However, they did not stop me from awarding this very unique, well-written book four stars. And yes, it deserves the triple win Hugo, Nebula, Locus. The afterword was wonderful too, when the author told how she came to this story. This is a SF post-apoc? It won Nebula, Locus and Hugo Award in The protagonist is a woman-healer called Snake. She wonders across the world helping people with her three serpents: an albino cobra Mist, a This is a SF post-apoc? This is maybe the early example of biopunk, but without prominent punkish elements: the serpents a bio-engineered to produce a broad range of serums and antibodies. The first chapter of the book is actually a Nebula-winning novelette by the author, entitled "Of Mist, And Grass, And Sand," and is considerably denser than the rest of the story. Jul 12, Andreas rated it really liked it Shelves: award-hugo , , reviewed , award-nebula , owned , award-locus , classic-sff. It reads like a fantasy story like Tehanu for the first 50 pages before it becomes clear that it is a post-nuclear SF setting. It follows a young, female healer called "Snake" within her probationary year. The eponymous Dreamsnakes are one of three kinds of snakes that healers in this setting use. They are irreplacable, because they rarely reproduce, can't be cloned and a loss is therefore devastating for healers. Now, Snake lost her dreamsnake, and this novel is about the quest to find replacement. On her quest, she falls in love, adopts a child, goes through lots of harshness. She is presented in general as a strong woman, who commits errors but also learns from them. It is very easy to identify with her. Writing is often very emotional, it uses more descriptive than action-oriented scenes, is more on the quiet side. I found a very good interview at io9. McIntyre talks about how she came to the story a Clarion workshop word draw , her reaction about Arevin's non- masculinity, the publishing situation in the 70s, the out-of-print problem of older book and bookviewcafe's answer to it. The interview deepened my impression that there are lots of interesting ideas pressed into this slim book. View all 7 comments. Dec 06, Kaa rated it liked it Shelves: queer-sff , group-buddy-reads , polyam. I thought the first chapter, which was originally an independent short story, was really lovely and moving. Dreamsnake | Vurt Wikia | Fandom

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But with morning, I dare not. I do not know in which direction the monster went; and I dare not risk coming upon him in the open, unarmed as I am. So, as in a maze, I remain at the bungalow, and ever my eyes turn toward the sun, lurching relentless down the sky toward the horizon. Ah, God! Dizzy with fear, I have bolted the doors and windows and lighted the lamp long before the last faint glow of twilight fades. The light from the windows may attract the monster, but I dare not stay in the dark. And again I take my stand in the center of the room—waiting. There was a shuddersome halt. Then he continued, barely above a whisper, moistening his lips: "'There is no knowing how long I stand there; Time has ceased to be and each second is an eon; each minute is an eternity, stretching into endless eternities. Then, God! Above the bungalow it swishes and then ceases—in front of the door; then the hinges creak—creak! The door begins to bulge inward —a small bit—then some more! I stand there, like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered—but the door holds! He drew a shaky hand across his brow. Ever I keep my eyes in the direction of the soft, sinister sound. Sometimes it ceases for an instant, or for several minutes, and then I stand scarcely breathing, for a horrible obsession has it that the serpent has in some way made entrance into the bungalow, and I start and whirl this way and that, frightfully fearful of making a noise, though I know not why, but ever with the feeling that the thing is at my back. Then the sounds commence again and I freeze motionless. I am, in the dream, in no way conscious that it is a dream, but, in a detached sort of way, my other mind recognizes certain facts and passes them on to my sleeping—shall I say 'ego'? That is to say, my personality is for an instant truly dual and separate to an extent, as the right and left arms are separate, while making up parts in the same entity. My dreaming mind has no cognizance of my higher mind; for the time being the other mind is subordinated and the subconscious mind is in full control, to such an extent that it does not even recognize the existence of the other. But the conscious mind, now sleeping, is cognizant of dim thought-waves emanating from the dream mind. I know that I have not made this entirely clear, but the fact remains that I know that my mind, conscious and subconscious, is near to ruin. My obsession of fear, as I stand there in my dream, is that the serpent will raise itself and peer into the window at me. And I know, in my dream, that if this occurs I shall go insane. And so vivid is the impression imparted to my conscious, now sleeping mind that the thought-waves stir the dim seas of sleep, and somehow I can feel my sanity rocking as my sanity rocks in my dream. Back and forth it totters and sways until the motion takes on a physical aspect and I in my dream am swaying from side to side. Not always is the sensation the same, but I tell you, if that horror ever raises it terrible shape and leers at me, if I ever see the fearful thing in my dream, I shall become stark, wild insane. But there I stand, and centuries go by, but at last a dim gray light begins to steal through the windows, the swishing dies away in the distance and presently a red, haggard sun climbs the eastern sky. Then I turn about and gaze into a mirror—and my hair has become perfectly white. I stagger to the door and fling it wide. There is nothing in sight but a wide track leading away down the hill through the grasslands—in the opposite direction from that which I would take toward the coast. And with a shriek of maniacal laughter, I dash down the hill and race across the grasslands. I race until I drop from exhaustion, then I lie until I can stagger up and go on. And ever as I hurl myself forward on weakening legs, ever as I lie gasping for breath, I watch the sun with a terrible eagerness. How swiftly the sun travels when a man races it for life! A losing race it is, as I know when I watch the sun sinking toward the skyline, and the hills which I had to gain ere sundown seemingly as far away as ever. His voice was lowered and instinctively we leaned toward him; he was gripping the chair arms and the blood was seeping from his lip. And I laugh, laugh, laugh! Then I cease, for the moon comes up and throws the grasslands in ghostly and silvery relief. The light is white across the land, though the moon itself is like blood. And I look back the way I have come—and far—back"—all of us leaned farther toward him, our hair a-prickle; his voice came like a ghostly whisper—"far back—I—see—the—grass—waving. There is no breeze, but the tall grass parts and sways in the moonlight, in a narrow, sinuous line—far away, but nearing every instant. Never yet have I seen the foul monster. But that is the dream that haunts me, and from which I have wakened, in my childhood screaming, in my manhood in cold sweat. At irregular intervals I dream it, and each time, lately"—he hesitated and then went on—"each time lately, the thing has been getting closer—closer—the waving of the grass marks his progress and he nears me with each dream; and when he reaches me, then—". He stopped short, then without a word rose abruptly and entered the house. The rest of us sat silent for awhile, then followed him, for it was late. How long I slept I do not know, but I woke suddenly with the impression that somewhere in the house someone had laughed long, loud and hideously, as a maniac laughs. Starting up, wondering if I had been dreaming, I rushed from my room, just as a truly horrible shriek echoed through the house. The place was now alive with other people who had been awakened, and all of us rushed to Famings's room, whence the sounds had seemed to come. The next chapter begins with Snake back at her camp, stewing. If you just started the story here, you'd still ascertain pretty quickly that 1 her dreamsnake was killed by otherwise well-meaning desert folk, and 2 this death has instigated a professional and personal crisis. And so I, with my unrivaled powers of literary perception, assumed that this must be where the original short story started — in medias res, baby, right in the middle of the action. Good Lord, I thought. Vonda McIntyre must've been so irritated to have had to write that first chapter and lay it all out so annoyingly explicitly. Well, of course I finished the book and discovered shortly thereafter that in fact, that annoyingly explicit first chapter was actually the award-winning "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" in its entirety. I still think it's one of the weaker parts of the novel, and I still think you could cut it from the manuscript in toto and, with a few very minor edits further on, be left with a perfectly comprehensible narrative. Thankfully, though they likely regarded it with more affection than I do, Snake and Arevin thought they deserved treatment beyond what the first chapter offered them, too, and so they hung around in McIntyre's head, insisting that she write more about them. Update, pm: I mention this in the comments below, but probably it belongs in the post as well, and in fact I included it in an earlier draft. I think the impact of "Of Mist As a short, the story is certainly not "annoyingly explicit. Most of Dreamsnake deals with Snake's adventures over what we discover is Earth, ravaged long ago by nuclear war, starting when a rider named Merideth shows up in her camp seeking aid for a seriously injured partner. Though she's worried about how much she can do without Grass's anesthetic, Snake grabs her case containing the other two serpents and heads off to help. As it turns out, her ability to help Merideth's companion Jesse is severely hampered without the dreamsnake, and the whole experience leaves her even more convinced that she needs to replace Grass to practice her art. The one bright note is that Jesse — a wild child from a wealthy family who ran off into the wilderness — gives her an idea: to go to the stone-enclosed city of Center, where offworlders sometimes come to trade, and see if she can obtain a dreamsnake there. For years, Center hasn't opened its gates to healers, but Jesse's connections might get Snake in. McIntyre unveils her world very gradually. There are no infodumps from an omniscient narrator; instead, we learn about things as Snake encounters them. And because in some cases, she's not all that sure of what to expect in this part of the world the healers haven't crossed the mountains to the region in many years , and in others, things that would be odd to us are simply facts of her life, there's minimal foreshadowing and little idea of what's going to happen. Contrast it with previous Hugo winner Gateway , where from the start you know Bob Broadhead will eventually end up on a trip in a Heechee ship, or The Gods Themselves , where it's clear some solution will be found to the problem of the Electron Pump, or even Stranger in a Strange Land , where though you don't know exactly how it'll play out, there's an almost tangible sense of the conflict building between Valentine Michael Smith and the earthly authorities. This organic manner gives many revelations in the book a matter-of-fact feel — sort of like in a dream. And because Snake isn't driven by an external goal she does want a new dreamsnake, but the stakes aren't death if she doesn't find one; really, her quest is motivated by an internal sense of responsibility and professional pride , the plot moves along a bit languidly, but not unpleasantly — sort of like watching a snake meander along. On the way to Center, Snake stays for a while in a town called Mountainside, where she treats its surly mayor for a leg wound; helps the mayor's son, Gabriel, with a more intimate affliction; and adopts a fire-scarred twelve-year-old named Melissa, who has a troubled past. The writing is so straightforward that it would be easy, I think, to disregard much of what happens in this section as rather humdrum. I think that's what I did on my first read. Reflecting on them now, though, while they're not wrought with earthshakingly effulgent language, the Mountainside scenes demonstrate a real steady hand on McIntyre's part, and a keener insight into human psychology — particularly the psychology of sex — than we've seen in most of the Hugo books so far. It's this stuff that made Dreamsnake controversial. For one thing, there's the sex. Though it's not graphic and certainly not pornographic , the book deals with intercourse more openly and thoughtfully than any of its Hugo precedents. One of its SF conceits is the idea of "biocontrol" — birth control exercised through psychosomatic manipulation of the reproductive system. Because this ability is possessed by the humans in Snake's world, their liaisons are far less constrained by concerns about offspring and the social structures that arise from such concerns. And then, even more important, there's the sex — that is to say, the role of gender in Dreamsnake. I have to confess that although I knew full well it was only the third Hugo-winning book to feature a woman protagonist The Big Time was the first, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang the second , it wasn't until I spoke to Vonda that I had any real sense of how much that meant. Snake is certainly more expressly "female" than either of the other books' leads. I put that in quotes because I mean it in a somewhat traditional sense, and want to acknowledge that there are certainly countless other valid definitions of the word. You can be female in a lot of ways. In the case of Dreamsnake , though, I think it's worth applying a broad, mainstream interpretation of "female" to its main character, simply because she stands as such a marked contrast to the traditionally masculine characters that pervaded and still pervade, although not quite as much the male-dominated field of SF. First, of course, Snake is a healer, as opposed to a warrior. She not only doesn't try to cause harm, even to her enemies, but is actively opposed to hurting anyone unless she's left with no other option. And then there are her sci-fi super-powers, so to speak: Rather than a suit of battle armor or some similar offensive capability, she's served by an immunity to snakebites and an increased capacity for healing. There's also Arevin. When his clan breaks camp to move for the season, he sets off to find Snake, so that he can vouch for her to the other healers, and take responsibility for his people's killing of Grass. As he's never been out into the great wide world, it's a supremely courageous undertaking. But it's an act of conscience, not physical strength; and though he and Snake are eventually reunited, his role isn't to be her knight in shining armor.

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Please request permission to use any material in whole or in part elsewhere on the web or in any other format. Saturday, June 20, Dreamsnake. Snake went back to bed, musing about Center, which gave chains to slavers but refused to talk to healers. In a post-apocalyptic world, healers have evolved techniques using a combination of nature and the little bit of off-world technology to treat and cure the people left outside the sealed City. Snake is a young healer who has been honored with a special name--her family believes she will make a strong healer and the name Snake has only been given three times before. She has begun her probationary year as a fully equipped healer and makes a trip into the desert with her three medicinal snakes. Two offer ways through their medically changed venom to treat cancers and other diseases. 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