TY - ABST T1 - "Peregrines" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with a dystopian background extrapolated from the threats to democracy brought about by the response to terrorism in the United States.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted January 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in her Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 211-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conqueror's Child Y1 - 1999 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fourth volume of series that includes 1974, 1978, and 1994 Charnas. In this volume, the men of the Holdfast have been enslaved by the freed women, but Alldera's daughter arrives bringing with her a boy child who she has effectively adopted, and the society begins to struggle toward a more balanced relationship between men and women.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furies Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 and 1978 Charnas. In this volume, Alldera leads a troop of Free Fems and Horsewomen back to the Holdfast, where they defeat the men and free the women. See also 1999 Charnas.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scorched Supper on New Niger" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story of corporate conflict in space that includes a feminist eutopia based on African traditions.

JF - New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 23-61; and in The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s. Presented by Isaac Asimov. Ed. Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993), 90-125. U.K. ed. (London: Robinson Publishing, 1993), 90-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motherlines Y1 - 1978 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 Charnas where Alldera, the woman who escaped from the Holdfast, discovers, first, the Horsewomen, and later the Free Fems. Both might be called flawed feminist utopias because while they are clearly much better than the slavery of the Holdfast, each has serious internal conflicts and problems, and, while they trade, they are deeply opposed to each other. See also 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

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U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Rpt. in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 217-436.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk to the End of the World Y1 - 1974 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215. 

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