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Suzy McKee Charnas

Born

in New York City, The United States

October 22, 1939

Died

January 02, 2023

Website

http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult

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Suzy McKee Charnas, a native New Yorker raised and educated in Manhattan, surfaced as an author with WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD (1974), a no-punches-pulled feminist SF novel and Campbell award finalist. The three further books that sprang from WALK (comprising a futurist, feminist epic about how people make history and create myth) closed in 1999 with THE CONQUEROR’S CHILD, a Tiptree winner (as is the series in its entirety).

Meanwhile, she taught for two years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps, married, and moved to New Mexico, where she has lived, taught, and written fiction and non-fiction for forty five years. She teaches SF from time to time, and travels every year to genre conventions around the country and (occasionally) around the w ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 10,002 ratings · 938 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Vampire Tapestry 3.59 avg rating — 2,575 ratings — published 1980 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walk to the End of the World (Holdfast Chronicles, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 1974 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slave and the Free (Holdfast Chronicles, #1-2) 3.73 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Furies (Holdfast Chronicles, #3) 3.87 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles, #4) 3.89 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boobs 3.80 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bronze King 3.81 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Glove 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Thread 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Holdfast Chronicles (4 books)
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The Sorcery Hall Trilogy (3 books)
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Quotes by Suzy McKee Charnas (?)

“Creatures stalking each other over time grew a bond from mind to mind.”
― Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry

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“The corporeal vampire, if he existed, would be by definition the greatest of all predators, living as he would off the top of the food chain.”
― Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry

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“What terrible things would she say to me, would I say to her, that we take such great care not to say anything important at all?”
― Suzy McKee Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry

tags: distance, family

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An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson - 352 pp

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