Scholarship and criticism on Suzy McKee Charnas

Marleen Barr.

• "Suzy McKee Charnas," in Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, edited by Curtis C. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.
• "Holding Fast to Feminism and Moving Beyond: Suzy McKee Charnas's The Vampire Tapestry." In Tom Staicar, editor, The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It (New York: Ungar, 1982). pp. 60-72, 138-140.
• "Utopia at the End of a Male Chauvinist Dystopian World: Suzy McKee Charnas's Feminist Science Fiction" in Marleen Barr and Nicholas D. Smith, editors, Women and Utopia: Critical Interpretations (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983), pp. 43-66. Analyzes Charnas' Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines.
• "Immortal Feminist Communities: A Recent Idea in Science Fiction," in Death and the Serpent, edited by carl B. Yoke and Donald M. Hassler. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985: pp. 39-47. Discussion of Motherlines by Charnas and other feminist sf.

Clemente, Bill.

• "Of Women and Wonder: A Conversation with Suzy McKee Charnas." in in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999: pp. 60-81.

Miller, Margaret.

• "The Ideal Woman in Two Feminist Science-Fiction Utopias," Science-Fiction Studies, No. 30 (July 1983): pp. 191-198. compares Charnas' Motherlines with Gilman's Herland.

Ruth Salvaggio, Marleen Barr, and Richard Law.

• Suzy McKee Charnas: Octavia Butler: Joan D. Vinge. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont, 1986.

I Cavalcanti

• The Writing of Utopia and the Feminist Critical Dystopia: Suzy McKee Charnas's Holdfast Series. Dark horizons: science fiction and the dystopian …, 2003 - Psychology Press

• Reading and Study Guide: Walk to the End of the World (Volume One of The Holdfast Chronicles). Available at http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/Study_guide_walk_to_the_end.html

Denise Du Pont.

• editor, Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

Interviews

Wilgus, Neal.

• "Algol Interview: Suzy McKee Charnas." Algol, v. 16, no. 1 (#33) Winter 1978-79: pages 21-25.
• "Algol Interview: Suzy McKee Charnas," Algol, Winter 1978-1979.