The Motherlines Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Suzy McKee Charnas
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—feminist
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Slavery or slaves, Future, Feminism, Women, Conquest, Earth
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
The novels follow the protagonist Alldera, who escapes slavery to men in the Holdfast and flees to the Grasslands. There she discovers other escaped female slaves as well as free tribes of women. She leads her people back to conquer their homeland.
Walk to the End of the World depicts life in the Holdfast following the Wasting, an environmental disaster. The surviving women, called fems, are horribly treated as slaves. As the novel opens, Eykar Bek has abandoned his post as Endtendant of Endpath, a job that involved providing good deaths for men who felt...
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