1978 science fiction novels

Dreamsnake is a 1978 science fiction novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre. It is an expansion of her 1973 novelette "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", for which she won her first Nebula Award in 1974. The story is set on Earth after a nuclear holocaust. The central character, Snake, is a healer who uses genetically modified serpents to cure sickness—one snake is an alien "dreamsnake", whose venom gives dying people pleasant dreams. The novel follows Snake as she seeks to replace her dreamsnake after its death.

1978 novel by Anthony Burgess

1978 Star Wars novel by Alan Dean Foster

1978 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

1978 novel by Anne McCaffrey

1978 science fiction novel by James Tiptree Jr.

1979 novel by Sally Miller Gearhart