R.I.P. Suzy McKee Charnas, 83 ("Holdfast Chronicles")

[Lenona]

https://locusmag.com/2023/01/suzy-mckee-charnas-1939-2023/
(obit)

Here's what I posted in 2019:

http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/suzy-mckee-charnas/
(book covers)

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1920&bih=966&ei=PnyvXeX6ELLH5gKh07qYDQ&q=suzy+charnas+kirkus&oq=suzy+charnas+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...5052.6216..6425...0.0..0.270.1484.0j3j4......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i22i30j33i160.92JVsZi6VeU&ved=0ahUKEwjlkbWM77DlAhWyo1kKHaGpDtMQ4dUDCAo&uact=5
(Kirkus reviews)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52468.Suzy_McKee_Charnas
(reader reviews)

https://www.facebook.com/suzy.mckeecharnas

https://www.google.com/search?ei=HXyvXZ-yFYbb5gKq1q84&q=suzy+charnas+interview&oq=suzy+charnas+interview&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160l2.1600.3025..3216...0.0..0.336.1600.0j2j4j1......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i22i30j33i299.ek8k40XEOjQ&ved=0ahUKEwjftNv87rDlAhWGrVkKHSrrCwcQ4dUDCAo&uact=5
(interviews)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/charnas-suzy-mckee-1939
(includes article on her work)

Excerpts:


AWARDS:

Nebula Award, 1980, for novella "The Unicorn Tapestry"; Hugo Award, 1989, for short story "Boobs"; Gigamesh Award, 1990, for best fantasy stories; Aslan Award for best children's book, Mythopoeic Society, 1993, for The Kingdom of Kevin Malone; James Tiptree, Jr., Retrospective Award, 1996, for Walk to the End of World and Motherlines; James Tiptree, Jr., Retrospective Award, 2000, for The Conqueror's Child.

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/charnas_suzy_mckee

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?273

https://www.google.com/search?q=suzy+charnas&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwins_yE77DlAhXvxlkKHeCLAIoQ_AUIFCgE&biw=1920&bih=966
(videos)


WORKS:

WRITINGS:
"HOLDFAST CHRONICLES" TETRALOGY

Walk to the End of the World, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1974.
Motherlines, Berkley (New York, NY), 1979.
The Furies, Tor (New York, NY), 1994.
The Conqueror's Child, Tor (New York, NY), 1999.
The Slave and the Free (includes Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines), Orb (New York, NY), 1999.

NOVELS

The Vampire Tapestry, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1980, revised edition published as an e-book, ElectricStory.com, 2001.
The Bronze King, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1985.
Dorothea Dreams, Arbor House (New York, NY), 1986.
The Silver Glove, Bantam (New York, NY), 1988.
The Golden Thread, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989.
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1993.
(As Rebecca Brand) The Ruby Tear, Forge (New York, NY), 1997.
Music of the Night (e-book), ElectricStory.com, 2001.

OTHER

The Unicorn Tapestry (play; adaptation of chapter three of novel, The Vampire Tapestry), produced in San Francisco, 1990.
Listening to Brahms (story collection), Pulphouse (Eugene, OR), 1991.
Moonstone and Tiger Eye (story collection), Pulphouse (Eugene, OR), 1992.
Strange Seas (nonfiction; e-book), Hidden Knowledge (San Jose, CA), 2001.
Vampire Dreams (play), Broadway Play Publishers (New York, NY), 2001.
My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances (memoir), Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (New York, NY), 2002.
Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms (essays and fiction), Tachyon (San Francisco, CA), 2004.

[Lenona]

https://scifi.radio/2023/01/04/suzy-mckee-charnas-gone-at-83/
(this is MUCH longer)

[Lenona]

I understand that major newspapers often have good reasons for not printing longish obituaries - as opposed to tiny death notices - for a few days - even a week.

But two and a half MONTHS, with the New York Times? What gives?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/books/suzy-mckee-charnas-dead.html

Yes, I see the date, but it's in today's hard copy.

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

In article <faa00ad0-5102-4bb3...@googlegroups.com>,

Well, we know her as having written possibly the most "70s" sf book ever,
but was she generally well known? Did she hit the NYT bestsellers list?
--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

[Lenona]

On Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 2:01:15 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

> Well, we know her as having written possibly the most "70s" sf book ever,
> but was she generally well known? Did she hit the NYT bestsellers list?

I don't quite know how likely it is that her family paid a lot for a long obituary, but I'd assume that obscure writers don't get more than tiny death notices. (For those who couldn't see it, it's definitely an obituary.)

There will always be those who don't read SF novels at all and who don't even recognize authors' names, but that doesn't make the authors less important.

[Paul S Person]

On 19 Mar 2023 18:01:10 GMT, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan

I once read an assertion that "every book makes the NYT bestsellers
list" -- the reason being that they (allegedly) have so many lists
that there are plenty of slots to go 'round.
--
"In this connexion, unquestionably the most significant
development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
of family right."