Archive - August 8, 2024

RPCVs in the news — She was best known for the Holdfast Chronicles, a series about a dystopic world in which once-enslaved women conquer their former male masters. By Richard Sandomir New York Times Published March 10, 2023 Suzy McKee Charnas, an award-winning feminist science fiction writer who in a four-novel series created a post-holocaust, male-dominated society called the Holdfast that is liberated by an army of women, died on Jan. 2 at her home in Albuquerque. She was 83. Her cousin David Szanton said the cause was a heart attack. Her death was not widely reported at the time. Ms. Charnas, whose books were well regarded but who by her account did not make a living from her writing, was best known for her science fiction. But she also wrote vampire fiction, young-adult fantasy novels with women as central characters, and a memoir about taking care of her father . . .