3.5
Walk to the End of the World
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begins Suzy McKee Charnas's incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty.
In a post-apocalyptic world, Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning, until she escapes and is saved by a tribe of women whose strength and courage sustain her.
is old-school feminist science fiction at its most prophetic.
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3.5
“This is the first dystopian novel I’ve read in a long time where men dominate women. And it’s the first one I’ve read from the point of view of the men. It takes place many years after nuclear war and women are treated as property, slaves, and even as pets. It’s disturbing as hell. Unfortunately, the message was lost in the writing style of the book; it was non-stop exposition. I continually lost the plot because either a character or the third person omniscient narrator always seemed to go back in time to explain some aspect of a character’s life or some point in the history of how the world got to this point. Nonetheless, this book plus its sequels, together known as “The Holdfast Chronicles”, is in the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame. This book plus its first sequel, together known as “The Slave and the Free”, won an Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award) retrospective honor.
Come visit my blog for the full review…
https://itstartedwiththehugos.blogspot.com/2020/06/walk-to-end-of-world.html”
“This book becomes more intense as it goes along, and some of the most profound statements are toward the end in the relationship (not romantic) of two of the characters. Charnas says she originally wrote it as a political satire, and bits of that are in evidence, in an entirely organic and plausible way. There was one character I didn't feel that I really understood - but not in a way that took away from the larger ideas. I am surprised this book isn't more know - if you are interested in patriarchy, dystopian novels where the disaster seems all too real and immanent you will be interested in this. Additionally I felt that she gives an view into the mindset of slave holders, and the slave, or any very gender divided society (including I am sure some of the ultra rightwing in the US.)”
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