6/7/2023 0 Comments Dreamsnake![]() (Which I thought was actually kind of a creative idea-feed a genetically modified snake a certain kind of drug or plant, let its body filter it into its venom, and then use the snake’s instinctual strike as a means to give a sterile injection.) But when Grass is killed by terrified peasants, Snake goes on a quest to find a new dreamsnake-that rarest breed of viper which acts as the anesthetic snake and is (most likely) brought to earth by the enigmatic off-worlders. Set after the nuclear holocaust, “Snake” is a healer who travels the savaged landscape attending the wounds of people using her three snakes Sand (a rattlesnake), Mist (a cobra), and Grass (a dreamsnake) as biological mortar-and-pestles to mix and dispense medicine. ![]() ![]() At least, that’s what Ursula le Guin says. ![]() In part, this isn’t your fault-the book hasn’t done well in print (though there’s a cheap electronic copy available here). ![]()
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