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A review by hank
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
3.0
As others have said, 70's through and through although don't ask me to explain what that means, mostly dialog and what I think of as flatness of world building.
An interesting start trying to figure out who and what Snake is and then it morphs into a sort of traveling adventure story like Gulliver's Travels or The Wizard of Oz. In fact there is a fairly blatant homage to The Wizard of Oz in the middle of the book which I will let others find for themselves.
Snake is the kind of person I have tried to grow up to be (still working on it), easy going, easy to forgive slights against herself yet inflexible when she sees a wrong that needs to be corrected.
Nothing was very extraordinary about this book which is why it got an ordinary rating. The plot was very straight forward, the life lessons very unambiguous and simple, the characters un-nuanced. I also don't like fantasies masquerading as sci-fi. Sure this was a post apocalyptic setup with lost science and technology but mostly this was pure fantasy.
Definitely better than most 70's "sci-fi" but I have enjoyed recent novels more.
An interesting start trying to figure out who and what Snake is and then it morphs into a sort of traveling adventure story like Gulliver's Travels or The Wizard of Oz. In fact there is a fairly blatant homage to The Wizard of Oz in the middle of the book which I will let others find for themselves.
Snake is the kind of person I have tried to grow up to be (still working on it), easy going, easy to forgive slights against herself yet inflexible when she sees a wrong that needs to be corrected.
Nothing was very extraordinary about this book which is why it got an ordinary rating. The plot was very straight forward, the life lessons very unambiguous and simple, the characters un-nuanced. I also don't like fantasies masquerading as sci-fi. Sure this was a post apocalyptic setup with lost science and technology but mostly this was pure fantasy.
Definitely better than most 70's "sci-fi" but I have enjoyed recent novels more.