Vonda N McIntyre
1) Dreamsnake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
When the healer Snake was summoned, she traveled the blasted landscape with her three serpents. From the venom of two of them, she distilled her medicines. But most valued of all was the alien dreamsnake, whose bite could ease the fear and pain of death. When the dreamsnake is killed, Snake's powers as a healer are all but lost. Her only hope of finding another dreamsnake lies in a treacherous journey to the far-off Center City, where Snake will be...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman from the sea is captured by 17th century French sailors so that King Louis XIV can eat her rejuvenating organs. The captive, who has green hair and flaps for legs, sings beautifully and this moves a woman courtier to save her. A look at what it means to be human. In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the...
9) Superluminal
Author
Publisher
Book View Cafe
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
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...
10) Outcasts
Author
Publisher
Book View Cafe
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Three science fiction stories from Vonda N. McIntyre: "Screwtop, " "Steelcollar Worker, " "The Genius Freaks. "
Kylis believes she can protect herself, but when the commander of the prison Screwtop threatens her lovers, she understands her own vulnerability. Jannine loves the accomplishment she feels in her Virtual Reality job... yet she fears doing it too well, and attracting the attention of her superiors. Lais, the freak, flees from comfort
...Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This all-new collection of twenty-three wildly entertaining stories takes readers back to the 1970s, where future-forward women changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future."--
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1684 France, Louis XIV, the Sun King, is the most powerful and influential monarch on the planet. But his birthday is approaching along with a rare solar eclipse and he's worried about the future of France. His spiritual advisor, Pre La Chaise, comforts him, while his physician, Dr. Labarthe informs him that scientists believe mermaids contain a life force that grants immortality. Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture a mermaid's...
