Series of novels by Suzy McKee Charnas
First edition of Walk to the End of the World (published by Ballantine Books ), the first book in the series. Cover art by Gene Szafran . The Holdfast Chronicles 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 1994 Lambda Literary Award for science fiction and fantasy.[3]
Otherwise Award/James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners
Retrospective 1991–2000
A Woman of the Iron People Eleanor Arnason (1991, tie)White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie)China Mountain Zhang Maureen F. McHugh (1992)Ammonite Nicola Griffith (1993)"The Matter of Seggri " by Ursula K. Le Guin (1994, tie)
Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer (1994, tie)Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand (1995, tie)The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak (1995, tie)"Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996, tie)
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell (1996, tie)Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (1997, tie)"Travels With The Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (1997, tie)
"Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation " by Raphael Carter (1998)
The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (1999)Wild Life by Molly Gloss (2000) 2001–2010
The Kappa Child Hiromi Goto (2001)Light M. John Harrison (2002, tie)"Stories for Men" by John Kessel (2002, tie)
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff (2003)Camouflage Joe Haldeman (2004, tie)Not Before Sundown Johanna Sinisalo (2004, tie)Air Geoff Ryman (2005)The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden Catherynne M. Valente (2006, tie)Half Life Shelley Jackson (2006, tie)James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2006, special recognition)The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness (2008, tie)Filter House by Nisi Shawl (2008, tie)Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (2009, tie)Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Fumi Yoshinaga (2009, tie)Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010) 2011–2020 2021–present
