Vonda N McIntyre
1) Dreamsnake
The healer Snake travels through a post-apocalyptic world with her genetically engineered serpents, the cobra Mist and the rattlesnake Sand, and with the alien dreamsnake Grass, whose venom eases pain and the fear of death.
Dreamsnake won the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Awards.
2) Flyers
Two linked stories by Vonda N. McIntyre: "Wings" and "The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn." Alien people abandon their dying planet in a generation ship, but a few are left behind.
"Wings" was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.
The Nebula-winning novel has been optioned by Bill Mechanic (executive producer of The New World) and Pandemonium Films (Coraline). It is in pre-production with plans to begin filming in Spring 2012.
"Inspired by tales of ancient sea-monsters, McIntyre spins a marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France's glittering Sun King.... McIntyre vividly re-creates a
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