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The Conqueror's Child (Holdfast Chronicles, Bk IV)
The Conqueror's Child - Holdfast Chronicles, Bk IV Author:Suzy McKee Charnas William S. Burroughs called Walk to the End of the World "one science fiction book in hundreds . . . at once believable and fascinating." Thirty years after the landmark publication of that story, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast. The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast, until Alldera Conqueror led a ... more »band of rebels to overthrow the rule of men and build a world where women rule. Now Sorrel, Alldera's blood daughter, is coming over the hills from the camps of the Riding Women to join her mother, to claim a mother's attention and love. She brings with her a young boy she has adopted. She is desperately protective of this child; she has to be. In the world she left behind, men are aliens--and in the world her mother conquered, they are slaves. Marge Piercy praised the second book in the series, Motherlines, for its "robust, earthy beauty" and Suzy McKee Charnas for her "genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them concrete and dramatic in her fiction." Publishers Weekly chose the third book, The Furies, as one of the five best science fiction novels of 1994. Kirkus Reviews called it "a moving, thoughtful feminist novel set in a gritty and believable dystopian future." Now the epic is complete, and The Conqueror's Child more than lives up to the promise of the first three volumes.« less