The Nebula Award Winner–1978The Hugo Award Winner–1979In a far-future, post-holocaust Earth, a young healer named Snake travels the world, healing the sick and injured with her companion, the alien dreamsnake. But she is being pursued…
Vonda N. McIntyre
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret - and no one she can trust. The Writer's Cut: I wrote Barbary in 1986, when security at airports was less stringent than it is today. Will security at spaceports be equally stringent? I hope that won't be necessary. I considered revising the text, but once a writer begins revising a published book, there's probably no stopping. The book, which I wrote for younger readers, does include one correction from the first edition, replacing a change I originally made under protest. My editor was under the impression that nobody under 21 knows or ever uses any profanity. This isn't true now and it wasn't true then, so I changed it back. \- VNM
While King Louis XIV of France believes that the sea monster he has obtained holds the key to immortality, Marie-Josèphe de la Croix finds herself challenging her most fundamental loyalties, in a story of alternate history.Won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997.