Holdfast Chronicles Series by Suzy McKee Charnas

3.62 · 29 ratings
  • Walk to the End of the World (Holdfast Chronicles #1)
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    Walk to the End of the World (Holdfast Chronicles #1)

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1974

    The men of the Holdfast had long treated with contempt the degenerated creatures known as "fems." To give themselves the drive to survive and reconquer the world, the men needed a common enemy. Superstitious belief had ascribed to the fems the guilt for the terrible Wasting that had destroyed the world. They were the ideal scapegoat. The truth was lost in death and decay and buried in history. It was going to be a long journey back...

  • Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles #2)
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    Motherlines (Holdfast Chronicles #2)

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1978

    "Everything I've always wanted from an adventure, and then some!"Samuel R Delany "[Motherlines is] a pioneer exercise in women's fantasies of independence, skill, freedom. It has a robust, earthy beauty. She has a genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them concrete and dramatic in her fiction."Marge Piercy Alldera had risked her life to escape the Holdfast, where men ruled fems in a bestial society based on fear... more

  • The Slave and the Free (Holdfast Chronicles #1-2)
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    The Slave and the Free (Holdfast Chronicles #1-2)

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1989

    After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning.In continued with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries... more

  • The Furies (Holdfast Chronicles #3)
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    The Furies (Holdfast Chronicles #3)

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1994

    The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of rebels to build a world where women rule. In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Walk to the End of the World, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Motherlines, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women... more

  • The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles #4)
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    The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles #4)

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 1999

    25 years after the landmark publication of Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast.The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of rebels to build a world where women rule. Now Sorrel, Alldera's daughter, joins her mother. She brings with her a young boy she has adopted... more

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