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Dreamsnake

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067398
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Dreamsnake written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The King’s Daughter. On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the frightened clan kills her dreamsnake. Ashamed of being misjudged and grieving the loss of her dreamsnake, Snake has one choice to maintain her livelihood: she must travel to the city, which jealously guards its knowledge. And before she faces the prejudices and arrogance of the people there, Snake must make her way across a barren desert, surviving storms and radiation poisoning, helping those she can—all while a madman stalks her every move . . . “[Dreamsnake] is filled with scenes as suspenseful as anyone could wish . . . but most of all it addresses the humanity in all of us.” —The Seattle Times “A haunting, rich, and tender novel that explores the human side of science fiction in a manner that’s all too uncommon.” —Robert Silverberg “A splendid tale, combining the sensitivity and attention to mood of the new generation of SF writers with a gripping and well-worked-out adventure . . . The novel is rich in character, background and incident—unusually absorbing and moving.” —Publishers Weekly “Instead of kicking butt, the lead character is dedicated to saving lives. . . . Snake’s blighted world is expertly drawn, and her encounters with dysfunctional societies can be bracing and challenging reading.” —The Guardian “This is an exciting future-dream with real characters, a believable mythos and, what’s more important, an excellent, readable story.” —Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series

The Exile Waiting

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Handheld Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781912766093
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Exile Waiting written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Handheld Classics. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exile Waiting was the first novel by the Hugo and Nebula award-winning novelist Vonda N McIntyre, published in 1975. It introduces the world that McIntyre later made famous with her multi-award-winning Dreamsnake: a post-apocalyptic world in which Center, an enclosed domed city, is run by slave-owning families who control the planet's resources, and are strangling the city's economy by their decadence. Mischa is a thirteen-year old sneak thief, struggling to support her drug-addict elder brother Chris, and their predatory uncle who uses their telepathic link with their captive younger sister Gemmi to control them. The alien pseudosibs Subone and Subtwo have come to Earth to take over Center's resources. Subone is attracted by the decadent living on offer and begins to unlink from his sibling's conditioning. Subtwo has fallen unexpectedly in love with a slave. When Mischa defends Chris from Subone's malice, Subtwo hunts her beneath Center's foundations, and discovers how terrible Center's cruelty has been to its inhabitants with genetically distorted bodies and minds. They have to rescue them and leave, but how? Also included in this edition, the first republication of McIntyre's short story 'Cages', originally published in Quark 4 in 1972, in which she first created the pseudosibs and their terrible origins.

The King's Daughter

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857054236
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The King's Daughter written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can she find the courage to defy a king? In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty are all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king, sacrificing fortune, principles, and even sacred family bonds. 'A wonderful book! Adventure, love, history, magic - it's an engrossing story with magnificent characters, balanced perfectly on the edge between,' says DIANA GABALDON By the fiftieth year of his reign, Louis XIV has made France the most powerful state in the western world, but the Sun King's appetite for glory knows no bounds. In a bold stroke, he sends his natural philosopher on an expedition to seek the source of immortality: the mythical sea monster. For the glory of his God, his country, and his king, Father Yves de la Croix returns with his treasures: one heavy shroud packed in ice . . . and in a covered basin, an imprisoned sea-creature. Marie-Josephe de la Croix has been looking forward to assisting her brother Yves in the scientific study of the sea monster, until she makes a discovery that will threaten everything her brother, the court and the King believe. 'The finest alternate history ever, light-hearted and wise - a luminous, radiant novel,' said URSULA K. LE GUIN But in the decadent court of King Louis, where morality is skewed and corruption reigns, will anyone listen to a single voice? Somehow, she must find the courage to follow her heart and her convictions - even at the cost of changing her life forever.

The Book of the Dun Cow

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Author : Walter Wangerin
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1626811032
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Dun Cow written by Walter Wangerin and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless National Book Award-winning story of the epic struggle between good and evil. “Far and away the most literate and intelligent story of the year … Mr. Wangerin’s allegorical fantasy about the age-old struggle between good and evil produces a resonance; it is a taut string plucked that reverberates in memory” —New York Times “Belongs on the shelf with Animal Farm, Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings. It is, like them, an absorbing, fanciful parade of the war between good and evil. A powerful and enjoyable work of the imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In a time when the sun revolved around the Earth, and the animals could speak, Chauntecleer the Rooster rules justly over his kingdom. But while peace reigns for Chauntecleer, evil is brewing across the river, as the monstrous Cockatrice pillages his own lands and people, preparing for the return of Wyrm. Imprisoned within the Earth to contain this ancient evil, Wyrm is determined to return, with the help of Cockatrice. Keeping Wyrm in his prison is a task too great for any individual animal, so it is up to Chantecleer to rally all of the animals, great and small, to work together to keep the Earth safe once again. “Good and evil were never seen more distinctly not pitted more ferociously than in this animal fable, reverberating with the righteousness of the Bible or a medieval morality play … The animals are not mere literary symbols but are invested with a humanness all their won.” —The Saturday Evening Post “Wangerin’s story functions as a frightening representation of modern evil … a parable for adults to ponder.” —The Christian Century “Wangerin has so fluidly woven all these legends together into one small gem.” —Washington Post Book World

Tales of Nevèrÿon

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Author : Samuel R. Delany
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480461733
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Samuel R. Delany’s epic fantasy—the first in a series—explores power, gender, and the nature of civilization. A boy of the bustling, colorful docks of port Kolhari, during a political coup, fifteen-year-old Gorgik, once his parents are killed, is taken a slave and transported to the government obsidian mines at the foot of the Faltha mountains. When, in the savagely primitive land of Nevèrÿon, finally he wins his freedom, Gorgik is ready to lead a rebellion against the rulers of this barely civilized land. His is the through-story that, now in the background, now in the foreground, connects these first five stories, in Tales of Nevèrÿon—and, indeed, all the eleven stories, novellas, and novels that comprise Delany’s epic fantasy series, Return to Nevèrÿon, where we can watch civilization first develop money, writing, labor, and that grounding of all civilizations since: capital itself. In these sagas of barbarism, new knowledge, and sex, you’ll find far more than in most sword-and-sorcery. They are an epic feat of language, an ironic analysis of the foundations of civilization, and a reminder that no weapon is more powerful than a well-honed legend. This “eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining” (The Washington Post Book World) novel reads “as if Umberto Eco had written about Conan the Barbarian” (USA Today). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.

The Dream Snake

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Author : Robert E. Howard
Publisher : eStar Books
ISBN 13 : 161210827X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Dream Snake written by Robert E. Howard and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recounting of a reoccurring and terrifying dream…

Fireflood

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780330265379
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Fireflood written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Entropy Effect

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743412095
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Entropy Effect written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Starship Enterprise™ is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal to rehabilitation: the brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, who is accused of promising to send people back in time, then killing them instead. But when a crazed Mordreaux escapes, he inexplicably bursts onto the bridge and murders Captain Kirk before the crew's eyes. Now Spock must journey back in time to avert the disaster before it occurs. But more is at stake than Kirk's life. Mordreaux's experiments have thrown the universe into chaos, and Spock is fighting time itself to keep the very fabric of reality from unraveling.

The King's Daughter

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067401
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The King's Daughter written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Nebula Award and now a major motion picture: “A luminous, radiant novel” (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series). During the late seventeenth century, Louis XIV’s natural philosopher and explorer, Father Yves de la Croix, does what no one has done for four hundred years: he brings a living sea monster to land. Thus begins a stunning fantasy, a journey into science and superstition, and an alternate history in which Yves and his sister, Marie-Josèphe—a lady-in-waiting with her own finely tuned intelligence and insatiable curiosity—struggle to learn from and protect the sea woman. As Marie-Josèphe translates the sea woman’s songs into stories, she hopes to stave off the creature’s inevitable execution—for Louis XIV believes the wondrous being holds the secret to the immortality he craves, a twisted obsession that will force brother and sister to choose between their conscience and their loyalty to king and country . . . The basis for the movie starring Pierce Brosnan, The King’s Daughter is “a dazzling and spirited evocation of the passions, intrigues, and preconceptions of the age, along with a dandy pair of misfit, star-crossed lovers: an enchanting slice of what-if historical speculation” (Kirkus Reviews). “A wonderful book! Adventure, love, history, magic.” —Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of Outlander “A plot that sings, enchanting romance, and a depth of insight into human nature.” —SF Site “A marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France’s glittering Sun King . . . [McIntyre’s] imaginings enliven her history with wonder, but, as in the best fantasy, they serve less to dazzle by their inventiveness than to illuminate brilliantly real-world truths—here, humanity’s responses, base and noble, when confronting the unknown.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Combines two demanding genres, with some remarkable twists unlike anything I’ve seen before. It is a science fiction story of first contact with an alien race, but told in a setting more often associated with fantasy. It is also historical romance at its best, the type of meticulously researched work that brings another era to life. McIntyre infuses it all with her marvelously unique style.” —Catherine Asaro, award-winning author Previously published as The Moon and the Sun

Persistence Of Vision

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Author : John Varley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101656026
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Persistence Of Vision written by John Varley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from "the wildest and most original science fictional mind" (George R.R. Martin) of Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley. The Persistance of Vision collects nine amazing fiction stories—including the Hugo and Nebula award-winning title novella—that could only come from the mesmerizing imagination of one of science fiction's most renowned and respected writers.

Superluminal

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504067436
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Superluminal written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of star-crossed love from the New York Times–bestselling author of Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novel Dreamsnake. In a future where space travel moves at faster-than-light speed, starship crews can only survive transit if drugged nearly to death. Then there are those like Laenea Trevelyan, who want to become pilots so badly they will go through years of training and major surgery to free themselves of biological rhythms. But though they become literally heartless, their emotions are just as human as before. Laenea discovers this herself when she immediately falls for crewman Radu Dracul upon her early release—some might say escape—from the hospital after her procedure. She is not unknown to Radu; Laenea was the first offworlder he ever saw when she and her crew delivered a vaccine for the cryptovirus that decimated his family and his planet. However, their intense attraction cannot last. Laenea’s modifications will not survive in close proximity to Radu’s biorhythms, which are too strong to allow him to become a pilot. But even in the vastness of space, where ships and hearts can be lost, fate—and danger—can have a hand in bringing two people together again . . . “Smoothly told . . . with the sturdy character conflicts snugly worked into the hyperspace-navigation backdrop.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Tombs of Atuan

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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442459905
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Tombs of Atuan written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wizard enters the underground domain of Ahra, high priestess of the Powers of the Earth, in an attempt to steal her palace's greatest treasure.

The Crystal Star: Star Wars Legends

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Author : Vonda McIntyre
Publisher : Random House Worlds
ISBN 13 : 0553571745
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Crystal Star: Star Wars Legends written by Vonda McIntyre and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre continues the bestselling Star Wars saga as the ultimate space adventure unfolds in The Crystal Star. Princess Leia's children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers' trail to a disabled refugee ship, from which children are also missing. Here she learns of a powerful Imperial officer with a twisted plan to restore the Empire. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Luke Skywalker are cut off from Leia by the death of a nearby star, which has caused a disruption in the Force. They have gone to the planet Crseih to investigate a report of a lost group of Jedi. Instead they find a charismatic alien named Waru whose miraculous healing powers have attracted a fanatic following. As Leia follows the path of her children across space, Luke and Han draw closer to the truth behind Waru's sinister cult. Together they will face an explosive showdown that will decide the survival of the New Republic . . . and the universe itself!

Remembering Vonda

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Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359697976
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Vonda written by Jeanne Gomoll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aliens and Others

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Author : Jenny Wolmark
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877454472
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Aliens and Others written by Jenny Wolmark and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starfarers

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Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 9780553563412
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Starfarers written by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Spectra. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the government reassesses the objectives of the spaceship "Starfarer"--trying to use the vessel for military rather than exploratory purposes--the crew, led by scientist Victoria MacKenzie, revolts

The Dream Snake, and Other (Esprios Classics)

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Author : Robert E. Howard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678105953
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)

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