The Holdfast Chronicles

The Holdfast Chronicles

Walk to the End of the World (1974) Motherlines (1978) The Furies (1994) The Conqueror's Child (1999)
Author	Suzy McKee Charnas
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Published	1974–1999
Media type	Print
No. of books	4

The Holdfast Chronicles is a series of science fiction books by American author Suzy McKee Charnas.

The series consists of four books:

• Walk to the End of the World (1974)
• Motherlines (1978)
• The Furies (1994)
• The Conqueror's Child (1999).

Reception

Salon.com reviewer Polly Shulman declared that "the Holdfast tetralogy offers a fascinating look back at the permutations of the feminist imagination in recent years, and it underlines the ideals and challenges faced by feminists ..."^[1]

Awards

The entire series was inducted into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame in 2003. Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World won a retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and The Conqueror's Child won the award in 1999.^[2]

The Furies was nominated for the 1995 Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy.^[3]

References

1. "Matriarchy blues", April 21, 2000
2. James Tiptree, Jr. Award 1999 Winner www.tiptree.org. Retrieved 28-02-2011
3. Lambda Literary Award site Archived 2008-04-19 at the Wayback Machine

Sources

• Mohr, Dunja M. Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2005. [extensive chapter on the Holdfast series]

External links

• The web site of Suzy McKee Charnas.
• Interview at SFFWorld.com
• Suzy McKee Charnas at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database