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by Suzy Mckee CHARNAS (Author) "Four Women on foot and lightly laden hid in a dusty dip where sharu came at another season to roll ..." (more)
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Powerful and poignant, but hopefully not prophetic, Charnas's sequel to Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines presents an action-packed, if upsetting, dystopia in which men have used women as chattel and have even contemplated raising them for food. The story continues the adventures of heroine Alldera, who leads the Free Fems, freed female slaves, against their former masters. As she returns from the Grasslands with a small army of Free Fems, Alldera's soldiers are now on horseback. Using superior bows, they retake the lands of their former bondage, joined in their victories by newly liberated slaves and by the Riding Women, nomadic females who have no biological need for men because they use horse sperm as a catalyst for their own reproduction. The women's taste of victory in battle leaves them nearly as bloodthirsty as their former masters, and Alldera's leadership is always in jeopardy, in part because she decides to protect the master who freed her long ago; the latter and a eunuch, Setteo the seer, are the only "good" males here. Hugo and Nebula award winner Charnas's story is not for the weak of stomach. For as Alldera asks, "Who can make a new, whole self without spending the ocean of old poisons first?" That spending is here vicious, bloody and wrenching.
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Alldera the Runner, with her army of Free Fems, embarks on the realization of her lifelong dream: the liberation of the enslaved women of Holdfast, her former home. In this follow-up to Walk to the End of the World (1974) and Motherlines (1978), Charnas explores the politics of retribution as the former slaves becomes masters with the power to dispense either mercy or revenge. The strong feminist theme that permeates this powerfully written saga creates a disturbing and thought-provoking atmosphere that may not appeal to everyone.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, Aug 29 2002
By Paula (Californialand) - See all my reviews
Hard to believe anyone could find anything in it boring enough to skip through. I tore through it in a day. The characters are especially well drawn and distinct. I don't know how Charnas does it.

The themes aren't wishy-washy and wimpy. Don't you want to yell at the book sometimes? Or at least what the people do and think? Yes. That's good.

Some have found the sequel, "The Conqueror's Child" to be better, or "Motherlines" before it, but this one is in my opinion the the best, most brutal one of the bunch. It's fast and action-packed, one of those great showdowns, vindications, coups de grace, whatever.

Sorry this is a patchy review, I tried!

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3.0 out of 5 stars the book of separatist feminist fears, Aug 17 1999
By Dr. Sam More "white_dragon" (Germany, Europe) - See all my reviews
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A superficial look would result in discarding the book as a summary of the irrational ideology separatist lesbian and feminists tend to harbour. (I have met some so I can compare with real life.) But apart of revealing the abstruse ideology of these social fringe group the book does more: it captures the reader in a world of struggle of a formerly oppressed group against the dominant group and exposes the underlying ethics or nonethics beneeth. The atrocities described in this book are real, happening today in various countries torn by civil war, be it in the former jugoslavia, in ruanda or in afganistan. This book sheds light on the sociolocal and psychological dynamics and this is its very strenght. Apart from that it is one of the very few books where I skipped whole chapters because of boredom - but still was intrigued ennough later to return and find out what actually happened in the story. Even decieded to buy a sequel.

But then I collect queer s/f and fantasy books.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful and evocative novel., Mar 2 1998
The Furies is a book that makes you think. I found it captivating and couldn' t put it down once I started it. Alldera is a heroin complete with self-doubt and other human failings. Her relationships with Sheel, Eykar Bek and her own people, the Free Fems make for great action and emotion. A totally believable character. I found the Riding Women of the grasslands facinating.
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