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The Holdfast Chronicles is a series of science fiction books by American author 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 series consists of four books:

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

Reception edit

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 edit

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]

References edit

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

Sources edit

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