Dreamsnake

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Vonda Mclntyre won the Nebula award with her story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand." But the characters of the story would not let its author be: the healer Snake and her friend Arevin had more of their lives to live.
Here now is the rest of the story, a novel that is a brilliant addition to the field of science fiction.
Snake comes to Arevin's clan to heal a dying child. In her world, healers use the twined serpents as more than a symbol of their profession. The cobra and the rattler are essential to their work, as is an offworld creature, delicate and hard to breed, the dreamsnake. When Snake's is killed, she feels crippled; she believes she has failed as a healer. But she is offered a chance to obtain another dreamsnake, and though it means a long and dangerous journey, it is a chance she eagerly accepts.
During her quest she encounters the people of her future world: the gentle desert folk; the inhabitants of Mountainside, whose wealth and renowned beauty cannot free them... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Vonda Mclntyre won the Nebula award with her story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand." But the characters of the story would not let its author be: the healer Snake and her friend Arevin had more of their lives to live.
Here now is the rest of the story, a novel that is a brilliant addition to the field of science fiction.
Snake comes to Arevin's clan to heal a dying child. In her world, healers use the twined serpents as more than a symbol of their profession. The cobra and the rattler are essential to their work, as is an offworld creature, delicate and hard to breed, the dreamsnake. When Snake's is killed, she feels crippled; she believes she has failed as a healer. But she is offered a chance to obtain another dreamsnake, and though it means a long and dangerous journey, it is a chance she eagerly accepts.
During her quest she encounters the people of her future world: the gentle desert folk; the inhabitants of Mountainside, whose wealth and renowned beauty cannot free them from all ugliness; and the families of Center, who no longer care what happens in the world outside their city's gates.
Snake's search covers more than the deserts and mountains of a future world; it probes the varieties of human love as well. , , , „
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Vonda Mclntyre's book is one of a growing number of sf novels that reach the field's widening audience of women readers. The original story is still being anthologized, and has been translated into several languages.
With her training in biology and genetics, VONDA N. MclNTYRE brings a general scientific background to her story of a healer. She is author of The Exile Waiting, which was a Science Fiction Book Club selection and a nominee for the Nebula award, and she co-edited (with Susan Janice Anderson) Aurora: Beyond Equality. She organized the Clarion/West Writers Workshop and was writer-in-residence for similar groups, and she belongs to several feminist organizations and the Cousteau Society. Her short stories have been published in Analog and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and in original anthologies such as Orbit, Quark, 2076: The American Tricentennial, The Crystal Ship, etc.- Born in Kentucky and raised on the east coast, Vonda Mclntyre now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Jacket painting by Stephen Alexander Vissza