Скачать или смотреть Vintage Science Fiction Book Review. "Dreamsnake" Vonda McIntyre

Tonight I review Vonda McIntyre's 1978 Hugo and Nebula award winning novel "Dreamsnake". I provide a spoiler free plot overview, discuss my likes, my dislikes, make some recommendations and I rank it on our ever growing Sci-Fi shed ladder where I have been reading and ranking all the Hugo and/or Nebula award winning novels.

00:00 Intro
00:28 Plot overview
03:09 What I Liked
04:33 What I didn't like
06:44 Memory Test
07:29 Recommendations and Similar Novels
10:54 Ranking
14:43 Your Feedback

Over the last year I have reread over 60 Hugo and/or Nebula award winning Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, and I have been ranking them on the ever growing SF Shed Ladder.

I use the following criteria to help me rank these wonderful novels.
1. Concept (how interesting/unique is the SF or F concept)
2. Execution of the concept
3. Characters (interesting character arcs, relatable, interesting)
4. Writing (how much did i enjoy the writing)
5. How memorable are these novels (the memory test)
6. Plot (interesting twists and turns)
7. Ending (does the ending satisfy)

Playlist of all the Hugo Winning Novels
   • Hugo Winners  

Playlist of all the Nebula Winning Novels
   • Nebula Winners  

The Shed Ladder Rankings
1 Hyperion - Dan Simmons
2 Dune - Frank Herbert
3 Gateway Frederik Pohl
4 A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr
5 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
6 Way Station - Clifford Symak
7 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
8 Doomsday Book - Connie WIllis
9 Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
10 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
11 A Case of Conscience - James Blish
12 Tehanu - Ursula LeGuine
13 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
14 The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuine
15 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula LeGuine
16 This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
17 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke
18 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
19 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
20 Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
21 Ringworld - Larry Niven
22 The Claw of the Conciliator - Gene Wolfe
23 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K, Dick
24 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
25 Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold
26 Red Mars - Kin Stanley Robinson
27 The Three Body Problem Cixin Liu
28 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
29 Moving Mars - Greg Bear
30 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
31 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
32 Redshirts - John Scalzi
33 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
34 Flowers for Algenon - Daniel Keyes
35 Rite of Passage - Alexei Panshin
36 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
37 Among Others - Jo Walton
38 The Uplift War - David Brin
39 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
40 Startide Rising - David Brin
41 Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
42 The Saint of Bright Doors - Vajra Chandrasekera
43 The Master of Djinn - P. Djeli Clark
44 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
45 The City and the City - China Mieville
46 Man Plus - Frederik Pohl
47 Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney
48 Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang - Kate Wilhelm
49 Double Star - Robert Heinlein
50 A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
51 Ancillary Justice - Anne Leckie
52 Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
53 Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold
54 A Time of Changes - Robert Silverberh
55 Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher
56 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
57 The Terminal Experiment - Robert J Sawyer
58 The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
59 The Einstein Intersection - Samuel R. Delaney
60 Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre
61 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
62 Timescape - Gregory Benford
63 No Enemy But Time - Michael Bishop
64 The Falling Woman - Pat Murphy
65 Slow River - Nicola Griffith
66 The Obelisk Gate - N.K Jemisin
67 The Fifth Season - N.K Jemisin
68 The Stone Sky - N.K Jemisin