1979 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

Dreamsnake

Vonda N. McIntyre

Snake travels the land with her serpents, the rattlesnake Sand, the cobra Mist and the rare alien dreamsnake called Grass, whose bite can ease the fear and pain of death. But the blasted landscape of a far-future post-holocaust Earth is a dangerous place, …

Blind Voices

Tom Reamy

The Faded Sun: Kesrith

C. J. Cherryh

The White Dragon

Anne McCaffrey

Up the Walls of the World

James Tiptree, Jr.