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Suzy McKee Charnas


USA flag (1939 - 2023)

aka Rebecca Brand

Suzy McKee Charnas was a native New Yorker raised and educated in Manhattan. She 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).
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Holdfast
   1. Walk to the End of the World (1974)
   2. Motherlines (1978)
   3. The Furies (1994)
   4. The Conqueror's Child (1999)
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Sorcery Hall
   1. The Bronze King (1985)
   2. The Silver Glove (1988)
   3. The Golden Thread (1989)
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Novels
   Dorothea Dreams (1986)
   The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (1993)
   The Ruby Tear (1997) (as by Rebecca Brand)
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Collections
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Suzy McKee Charnas recommends
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Can't Find My Way Home (2022)
Gwynne Garfinkle
"Writing a really good ghost story is a lot harder than it looks. But Garfinkle pulls it off with elan and produces a wonderful story about lives unlived, for one reason or another, shifting perspectives, what (if anything) we owe our dead, and how we reflect each other, hold each other back, and provide the take-off for others' sprints into maturity. There's also some tasty detail about the lives of working actors on a soap-opera gravy train, that as a film and theater enthusiast, I found delightful."
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Roadsouls (2016)
Betsy James
"If you long for a fantasy world that your senses could live in...read this book...vivid and earthy."
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Binding (2013)
(Moon Wolf, book 2)
Carol Wolf
"The story moves, like its protagonist, boldly, unhampered by any emo blithering, to an unusual and satisfying conclusion. I hope there's more coming!"

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Anthologies containing stories by Suzy McKee Charnas
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The Best of the Best Horror of the Year (2018)
(Best Horror of the Year)
edited by
Ellen Datlow
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Blood Sisters (2015)
Vampire Stories By Women
edited by
Paula Guran

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Awards
John W. Campbell Best Book nominee (1975) : Walk to the End of the World
Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1981) : The Unicorn Tapestry
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1981) : The Unicorn Tapestry
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1987) : Listening to Brahms [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1990) : Boobs
Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1990) : Boobs
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1992) : Advocates
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1997) : Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1997) : Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast
James Tiptree, Jr. Award Best Book winner (1999) : The Conqueror's Child


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