The Holdfast Chronicles

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

First edition of Walk to the End of the World (publ. Ballantine Books), the first book in the series.
Cover art by Gene Szafran

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 1994 Lambda Literary Award for science fiction and fantasy.[3]

gollark: The "current" eggs seem kind of weird; they weren't announced properly, randomly ended up in the biomes quite late, and now have weird cracks.
gollark: I assume the new current ones are somewhat xenowyrmy, since apparently they came from breeding xenos, have a similar description, and came in the same release.
gollark: I've got entirely release ones now, except for my one free unused slot.
gollark: It would be really impressive if DC was broken enough that he could *accidentally* release a new dragon this way.
gollark: In fact, it's... entirely current ones in every biome?

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]


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