Thursday, October 21, 2010

Next Item: (3158) Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

Publisher's Summary:

A New York Times best seller and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dreamsnake is the haunting, critically acclaimed novel of an extraordinary woman and her dangerous quest to reclaim her healing powers.

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 pursued by two implacable followers: one driven mad by love, the other by fear and need

On Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Dreamsnake-Vonda-N-McIntyre/dp/B000MSA1TA/ref=sr_1_3?s=...

On Audible: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002UZLB42&qid=1286110485&s...