Suzy McKee Charnas Livres

Set against the backdrop of post-Revolution France, the story unfolds as artist Dorothea Howard grapples with the haunting presence of a ghostly judge and the magical grip of her own creation. Her desire for solitude is shattered when Ricky Maulders, a dying friend, visits her, only to be interrupted by three Chicano teens fleeing the law and a group of summer-school students. This chaotic intrusion forces Dorothea to confront the complexities of life and politics she has long evaded.

Themes will appeal to fans of fantasy, romance, horror, and character-driven suspense.Contents:Beauty and the Opéra or the Phantom Beast (1996)Unicorn Tapestry (1980)Boobs (1989)Evil Thoughts (1990)Advocates (1991) with Chelsea Quinn YarbroA Musical Interlude (1980)Peregrines (2004)Listening to Brahms (1986)

After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty. It started with Walk to the End of the World, where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning. In continued with Motherlines, where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling, killing the few men who approach their boundaries. The books that finish Alldera's story, The Furies and The Conqueror's Child, are now available. Once you start here, you won't want to stop until you've read the last word of the last book.

A vampire in contemporary America, Dr. Edward Weyland discovers it is a world he can manipulate with ease, despite a stoic South African widow who discovers his true identity and an occultist who seeks to acquire his power.

"The device for the play is that of a modern and successful psychoanalyst who finds herself strangely attracted to her patient, a renowned anthropology professor who claims to be a vampire. The doctor of course, knows there are no such things as vampires but his sophisticated and erudite manner becomes an obsessive fascination... Charnas's dialogue is stylish and witty--a contemporary comedy with an unsettling mixture of romance, mysticism, fantasy and sophistication...the play is mesmerizing." A J Esta, Dramalogue ..".a wonderful tale of deceptions, seduction, destruction, and romance." Kathleen Baca, San Francisco Sentinel "Charnas clearly knows her way around the undead. Her play is full of savvy, one to tempted to say biting, wit, with a realistic, common-sense attitude toward vampirism... The dialogue is bright and crisp... Highly unsafe sex." Gerald Nachman, San Francisco Chronicle

The direct sequel to The Furies -- which Publishers Weekly named one of the 5 best SF titles of 1994 -- it is the story of how the Free Fems reclaim the Holdfast from the men who ruled them.Sorrel, adopted daughter of Alldera the Conqueror, comes from the camps of the Riding Women to join her mother, to claim a mother's attention and love. As she and her adopted son face grave danger, she slowly finds her own place outside her mother's shadow.

A gripping tale of slavery and freedom--the long-awaited sequel to Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World. When Alldera the Runner fled the Holdfast, she met the Riding Women, who live a free life of thievery and nomadic wandering. Now Alldera leads an army back to free the remaining slaves.

Die prophezeite Katastrophe, die große Verheerung ist hereingebrochen. Kriege, Umweltverschmutzung und Raubbau an Bodenschätzen haben die Welt verwüstet und sie dem Unkraut überlassen. Nur wenige haben überlebt, und die Männer unter ihnen unterdrücken ihr eigenes Entsetzen und den Vorwurf in den Gesichtern der Frauen durch ein strenges Regime: Sie lernen, strikt nach Regeln für ihre Altersgruppe in der Anonymität aufzugehen. Den Frauen aber lastet man alle Schuld für das Geschehene an — ein Vorwand, sie völlig zu versklaven.