Dreamsnake

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Science Fiction / McIntyre, Vonda	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

They summon and she travels: Snake, the healer. Through the blasted landscape of a post-holocaust world, she carries her three serpents. From the venom of two, she distills her medicines; but it is the third, the alien dreamsnake--whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death--that is the most valued. When the dreamsnake is killed by those she has come to help, her powers as a healer are all but lost. Her only hope now lies in the treacherous journey to far-off Center City, where Snake will be pursued by two implacable followers: one driven mad by love, the other by fear and need.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Really Good submitted by ashflowtuff on July 3, 2017, 7:46am If you are at all a fan of speculative fiction, you will enjoy this book. Really interesting world and premise, and great storytelling.

Interesting Premise, Fantasy/Exploration, But a Bit Sci-Fi too submitted by Kitty4777 on June 17, 2022, 12:04pm 5/5 - I’m reading nebula award winning books in order, year by year. To me, this book marks the end of pure science/ new worlds and exploration of that culture, moving into more of a fantasy/ exploration realm- driven by characters and their journeys. Space/ foreign worlds are an undiscovered afterthought. Nuclear fallout and dystopian future have strong undertones, but don’t drive the narrative overall.

I don’t think it’s for everyone, as it’s a specific style of writing, but was enjoyable overall.