Suzy McKee Charnas

Suzy McKee Charnas, (born 1939 in New York City) is an American novelist and short story writer, writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. She has won several awards for her fiction, including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She lives in New Mexico.

Names

• Rebecca Brand (pseudonym)

Bibliography

Novels

• Dorothea Dreams (1986)
• The Kingdom of Kevin Malone (1993)
• The Ruby Tear (1997) (as Rebecca Brand)

Series

• The Holdfast Chronicles
  • Walk to the End of the World (1974)
  • Motherlines (1978)
  • The Furies (1994)
  • The Conqueror's Child (1999)

• Sorcery Hill
  • The Bronze King (1985)
  • The Silver Glove (1988)
  • The Golden Thread (1989)

Collections

• The Vampire Tapestry (1980), connected stories which function as a novel, ebook available on www.fictionwise.com
• Moonstone and Tiger-Eye (1992)
• Music of the Night (2001) ebook
• Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms 2004, Tachyon Publications

Short stories

• "Scorched Supper on New Niger" (1980)
• "Unicorn Tapestry" (1980) (included in The Vampire Tapestry), available on www.fictionwise.com
• "A Woman Appeared" (1981)
• "Listening to Brahms" (1986)
• "Boobs" (1989), available on www.fictionwise.com
• "Evil Thoughts" (1990)
• "Advocates" with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1991)
• "Beauty and the Opera, or the Phantom Beast" (1996), available on www.fictionwise.com
• "Peregrines" (2004)

• "The Ancient Mind at Work" (1979)
• "The Land of Lost Content" (1980)
• "The Last of Dr Weyland" (1980)
• "A Musical Interlude" (1980)
• "Scorched Supper on New Niger" (1980)
• "The Unicorn Tapestry" (1980)
• "Listening to Brahms" (1986) Nebula (nominee)
• "Boobs" (1989) Nebula (nominee)
• "Advocates" (1991) (with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) Bram Stoker (nominee)
• "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (1991)
• "Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast" (1996)

Other works

• "Nosferatu" (musical production; lyrics)
• The Vampire Tapestry (play)

Non-fiction

• "No Such Thing as Tearing Down Just a Little: Post-Holocaust Themes in Feminist SF" (1980; Janus v.6)
• Strange Seas (2001) ebook
• My Father's Ghost (2002)
• "The Stagestruck Vampire" (2004)
• "They're Right, Art Is Long" (2004)

Awards

• "The Unicorn Tapestry" won the Nebula Award in 1981.
• "Boobs" won the Hugo Award in 1990.
• Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines together won one of the three Retrospective Tiptree Awards in 1996.
• The Conqueror's Child won the Tiptree Award in 2000.

External links

• Charnas's web site
• Text of "Peregrines"
• "The Erotics of Gender Ambiguity, an online symposium with L. Timmel Duchamp, Janet Barron, Jeanne Gomoll, Nicola Griffith, Suzy McKee Charnas, Rebecca Holden, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Janet Lafler, Sylvia Kelso, and Brian Attebery