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Dreamsnake / Vonda N. McIntyre.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIntyre, Vonda N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Snakes--Fiction.
- Snakes.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Women healers--Fiction.
- Women healers.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1978]
- Summary:
- Snake, a young healer in a dangerous post-Holocaust world, undertakes an arduous search for a replacement for grass, the slain dreamsnake vital to her profession.
- Notes:
- Jacket painting by Stephen Alexander.
- First printing has gutter code "I 17" on page 276, indicates a printing in April 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy wanting dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 139991
- OCLC:
- 3942653
- Publisher Number:
- 03077 Science Fiction Book Club
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