Vonda N McIntyre, who has died aged 70, was foremost among a legion of new female science-fiction authors in the early 1970s inspired by humanist writers such as Ursula K Le Guin, Joanna Russ and Samuel Delany. With Dreamsnake (1978), she became only the second woman to win the Nebula award and the third to win the Hugo award for best novel.
Dreamsnake was the story of a young healer, Snake, who uses genetically modified serpents to deliver healing venom; a third serpent – the dreamsnake – is used when the patient is incurable. An error in trust leads to the death of her dreamsnake and Snake struggles to function fully as a healer.
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