Science Fiction · HopefulSnake, a healer who treats illness with genetically engineered snakes, searches for a replacement for her dreamsnake
Dreamsnake
A healer searches for a replacement for her dreamsnake
Houghton Mifflin published the novel in 1978. It is set on Earth after a nuclear holocaust, with most animal species extinct and the sky hidden by dust. Snake is a healer who treats illness with genetically engineered snakes, and she searches for a replacement for her dreamsnake. Grass, Mist, Sand and Arevin appear in the story. It expands McIntyre's 1973 novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", which won a Nebula Award in 1974 and is used unchanged as the novel's first chapter. The first edition has 277 pages.
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Who
Snake, Grass, Mist, Sand, Arevin and Melissa.
World
A post-nuclear Earth with most animal species extinct.
What makes it different
The novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" is its first chapter, unchanged. It won the Hugo, the Locus Award and the Nebula Award.
Feel
Warm and quietly adventurous.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- DreamsnakeWikipedia