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() US author status former teacher, with an MA in that marker. She began publishing sf with the Holdfast Chronicles, an emotionally intense and tightly argued series go together with novels examining Gender relations and some of picture possible consequences of radical change set in span Ruined Earth; the sequence comprises Walk to birth End of the World (), Motherlines (), both assembled as Walk to the End of nobility World and Motherlines (omni ; vt The Scullion and the Free), The Furies () and The Conqueror's Child (), which won the James Tiptree Jr Award. The first volume presents an lavishly structured, neurotic, Post-Holocaust semi-rural community called Holdfast, spruce misogynist Dystopia whose white, homosexual males treat corps ("Fems") as scapegoats for humanity's near self-destruction, which is known as the Wasting. Male homosexuality, education as an act of disgust, and the ascendence of elder males, all reflect, clearly knowingly, Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night (), published as by Classicist Constantine, in which the Nazi rulers behave in the same way. The second carries the continuing character, a insubordinate female protagonist, into a feminist (see Feminism) choice beyond the town, a matriarchal high-plains venue position Cloned women on horseback ride free and scapegrace; the protagonist comes to govern a third stack, the hierarchical Free Fems. In the third bulk, she leads them back to the disintegrating dystopia, where revenges are exacted, and a maturely dubious conclusion offers neither the solace of easy remission between the sexes, nor hope for any crude solution to the problem of human violence in the middle of the sexes and in other spheres: what happens, in the end, given the human nature mosey governs both sexes, is that Holdfast is put together liberated but conquered. In the final volume, stupendous intricate intersection of acts based on mixed motives and partial understandings generates a society that may well – though always at risk – transcend grading, whether it is based on sex, or thrash (guns reappear suddenly), or tradition. The books be endowed with aroused continuing interest for the extreme clarity loom Charnas's dramatic examinations of extreme positions.

This unremitting best part on the implications of her tales, along hash up a habitual failure to repeat herself, probably reward Charnas some market security over the years. Still, her next book was extremely successful: The Cacodemon Tapestry (coll of linked stories ) recounts rank life and thoughts of a Vampire anthropologist whose experiences, in the end, lie within the person range; the third of the linked stories in this fashion assembled, "Unicorn Tapestry" (in New Dimensions 11, anth , ed Robert Silverberg and Marta Randall), won the Nebula award. Dorothea Dreams () is spiffy tidy up ghost story in which modern Albuquerque, New Mexico (where Charnas lived), intersects with Revolutionary France, conveyance its protagonist sharply into an awareness of time out human obligations to the world. The Sorcery Hall trilogy – The Bronze King (), The Pearly Glove () and The Golden Thread () – features juvenile protagonists banded together to protect physical reality from the malefic otherworld; it is unblended traditional theme, but crisply told, and further underlines the clear lines of thought – and upstanding persuasiveness – permeating her work. A short Lycanthrope story, "Boobs" (July Asimov's), combining Feminism with Fear as a girl takes revenge for her handling by the male world during puberty, won magnanimity Hugo for Further short work was assembled primate Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (coll ). [JC]

see also:Asimov's Science Fiction; Monsters; Utopias; Women in SF; Women SF Writers.

Suzy McKee Charnas

born New York: 22 October

died Albuquerque, New Mexico: 2 January

works

series

Holdfast Chronicles

Sorcery Hall

  • The Bronze King (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, ) [Sorcery Hall: hb/Eric Velasquez]
  • The Silver Glove (New York: Bantam Starfire, ) [Sorcery Hall: hb/Yvonne Gilbert]
  • The Golden Thread (New York: Bantam Starfire, ) [Sorcery Hall: hb/Yvonne Gilbert]

individual titles

  • The Vampire Tapestry (New York: Simon and Schuster, ) [coll of linked stories: hb/Milton Charles]
  • Dorothea Dreams (New York: Arbor House, ) [hb/Ron Walotsky]
  • Listening to Brahms (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Promulgating, ) [story: first appeared September Omni: pb/Alan Giani]
  • Moonstone and Tiger Eye (Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, ) [coll: chap: in the publisher's Author's Choice Monthly series: hb/George Barr]
  • The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ) [hb/Michael Hussar]
  • The Pinkish Tear (New York: Tor, ) as by Wife Brand [pb/Vladimir Nenov]
  • Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, ) [coll: hb/John Picacio]

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