Walk to the End of the World
| Title | Walk to the End of the World |
| Year for Search | 1974 |
| Authors | Charnas, Suzy McKee(1939-2023) |
| Date Published | 1974 |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1939). |
| Full Text | 1974 Charnas, Suzy McKee (b. 1939). Walk to the End of the World. New York: Ballantine Books. 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. MoU-St, PSt 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. |
