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In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now in Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conquere leads an army back over the mountains, hoping to end the tyranny and free the slaves she left behind.
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Suzy McKee Charnas is the author of over a dozen works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including the Holdfast series from Tor Books and the Sorcery Hall series of books for young adults. She is the winner of the Hugo Award (for her short story "Boobs") and has won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award twice, once retrospectively for the first two Holdfast books and then for The Conqueror's Child, final volume of the Holdfast series. Her most recent book is My Father's Ghost, a narrative nonfiction work about her father's old age. She adapted her novel, The Vampire Tapestry, for the stage in the late 1990s.
She was born and brought up in New York City, the setting for the Sorcery Hall books, and she currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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She was born and brought up in New York City, the setting for the Sorcery Hall books, and she currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Although this postapocalyptic, feminist tale is the third in a series Charnas began 20 years ago with Walk to the End of the World (1974) and continued with Motherlines (1978), it stands on its own. The basic scenario echoes Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1986): Women are slaves and breeders. But in Charnas' novel, a group of slaves have escaped Holdfast and found freedom out in the Grasslands, the home of the Riding Women. These women warriors manage somehow to conceive human daughters from intercourse with horses. The ex-slaves, or Free Fems, find this as ridiculous as this reviewer does, so, biological clocks ticking madly, they decide to return to their homeland as conquerors, liberate their sisters, and force their male prisoners to mate with them. The ensuing grim and bloody action takes place in a blasted future that is positively medieval. Conflicts quickly arise within the ranks of the women's army, all traceable to the suppression of healthy and caring interaction between the sexes. By depicting a world in which homosexuality is the only accepted form of intimacy, Charnas throws our own confusion about gender roles, sex and procreation, and same-sex love into high relief, while also considering the implications of revenge, retribution, justice, and forgiveness. The Furies has its moments. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherThe Womens Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 070434422X
- ISBN 13 9780704344228
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages383
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