Series
Snake
Vonda N. McIntyre · 1 novel · 3 novelettes · 1 short story · 1973–1980
Vonda N. McIntyre's Dreamsnake (1978) follows Snake, an itinerant healer in a post-nuclear world who treats patients with venom from three genetically altered serpents, including an alien 'dreamsnake' that eases the dying. When her dreamsnake is killed early on, Snake sets out across a fractured, tribal far-future Earth to find a replacement. The novel grew out of McIntyre's 1973 novelette 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,' which became its opening section.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Snake at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s4
- 1980s1
Shape
1 novel · 3 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionsurvivalother star systemsfar futureemotionaladult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Dreamsnakedarkest · calmest
- Of Mist, and Grass, and Sandbrightest · most intense