Series
Holdfast Chronicles
Suzy McKee Charnas · 4 novels · 1974–1999
Suzy McKee Charnas' Holdfast Chronicles is a landmark feminist science-fiction tetralogy, following Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines through The Furies and The Conqueror's Child across a quarter-century of writing, from 1974 to 1999. Set in a devastated future where gender relations have been violently reorganized, the series is a touchstone of feminist SF recognized with the James Tiptree Jr. Award and induction into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Holdfast Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s0
- 1990s2
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictiongender and societyotherworldfar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Conqueror's Childdarkest · calmest
- Walk to the End of the Worldbrightest · most intense