Dreamsnake

I was really pleasantly surprised by this! '70s scifi and I have a rather antagonistic relationship, so I was hoping to read the late great McIntyre, pay my respects, and retreat to safer grounds. But this was delightful! I mean, yes, it was still 70s-tastic, but in a fun way, not in a stabby way. CO......more

Look, I read a lot of science fiction. Enough that I would mention it. So I have a pretty high tolerance for silliness. This book overwhelmed my tolerance and left me staggered by the sheer nonsense of it all. Welcome to a post-apocalyptic future where isolated communities blunder about in moral turp......more

This is a wonderfully patient, subtle, and intimate novel, unusually so in the SFF canon. My mother was a nurse, which led me to being especially drawn in with the healer Snake as she made her way through her travels. Some of the pacing in the latter third was a little off, and there were aspects of......more

I was worried that I might have thought this early SF dystopia might have not held up so well after nearly 40 years of a never ending stream of them, but considering that I recently watched some early Mad Max films, I'm all good. We have to place these things in their time. After all, where else are......more

I enjoyed this book a lot. It’s the story of a traveling healer in a post-apocalyptic world, which the author classified as sci-fi but which feels to me more like fantasy. Though published in the 1970s, it mostly works quite well in the 2020s. The story begins episodically, and to an extent continues......more