Dreamsnake

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Overview:

Title: Dreamsnake
Author: Vonda N. McIntyre
Year: 1979
ISBN-10: 0395264707
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Price: $9.95
Pages: 313
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Dreamsnake
Notes: Third printing
Dustjacket has the blurb "Winner of the Hugo and Nebular [sic] Awards for the Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year."
Info from Locus #229 (January 1980).