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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).
 

Awards: Otherwise (1999), Hugo (1990), Nebula (1981)  see all

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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Books 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
1999 Otherwise Award : The Conqueror's Child
1990 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Boobs
1981 Nebula Award for Best Novella : The Unicorn Tapestry

Award nominations
2012 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Late Bloomer
2005 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Stagestruck Vampires: And Other Phantasms
2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Conqueror's Child
1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast
1997 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast
1997 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast
1992 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Advocates
1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Advocates
1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Boobs
1987 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Listening to Brahms [short story]
1986 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Bronze King
1981 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Unicorn Tapestry
1981 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Unicorn Tapestry
1981 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Vampire Tapestry
1975 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Walk to the End of the World
1975 Astounding Award for Best New Writer (nominee) : Walk to the End of the World


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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