5/31/2023 0 Comments Dreamsnake vonda mcintyreShe also penned five Star Trek novels and a host of other books and stories.īut it’s Dreamsnake that concerns us today. She had a distinguished career as a writer, winning three Nebula Awards and a Hugo Award (one of those Nebulas was for the short story “Of Mist, And Grass, And Sand” which she expanded to novel form as Dreamsnake, which won another Nebula). Dreamsnake (1978) was her second novel, following The Exile Waiting (1975). She is most famous, though, for her Science Fiction novels. She was competent at horse-riding and Aikido she received an Honours degree in biology and genetics she taught writing and was also a fierce advocate for the many causes that she cared deeply about. Vonda McIntyre (1948 – 2019) led a varied and interesting life. Grass is killed by ignorant people who believed he was going to attack one of their children, and Snake is forced into seeking a replacement… She travels with a small amount of vital equipment but most of her healing is done with the aid of three genetically-engineered snakes two – a cobra and a rattlesnake – are of earthly origin but the third, Grass, is an alien creature about which little is known but which is prized for the hallucinogenic anaesthetic he can inject into humans. Snake is a healer in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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