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Suzy McKee Charnas
A Nebula, Hugo, and Tiptree award winner, Suzy McKee Charnas is the author of the acclaimed Holdfast Chronicles, comprised of Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines, The Furies, and The Conqueror's Child. Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines were recently published in a single volume called The Slave and the Free. Her other books include The Vampire Tapestry, Dorothea Dreams, The Bronze King, The Silver Glove, The Golden Thread, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Strange Seas, and Music of the Night. Charnas' nonfiction book My Father's Ghost will be published by Tarcher/Penguin-Putnam in Fall 2002. Charnas currently lives with her husband in New Mexico. Her official website is http://www.sfwa.org/Members/Charnas.
Photograph © Kyle Zimmerman
Strange Seas
Strange Sea is a nonfiction book about whales, channeling, and writing, and a unique insight into the thoughts of this award-winning author.
Suzy McKee Charnas' Summer Reading List
Mind of the Raven
by Bern Heinrich
I'm working on a book that's partly about shamanism, and the raven is a potent figure in many shamanic belief systems; this book is by a nature writer who has spent many years observing ravens, including, it says here, a number of these birds that he raised himself.
Daughter of the Bear King
by Eleanor Arnason
Arnason is one of my favorite authors, and I picked up this item in the dealer's roomat the only explicitly feminist science fiction convention in the world, Wiscon in Madison, Wisconsin, in May. An old book, but knowing Eleanor, a good one.
The Vintner's Luck
by Elizabeth Knox
A book about an angel by a New Zealand author, it comes with high praise; and I am always interested in what sharp-minded authors can do with an idea as hackneyed as that of an angel involving itself in a human's life.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Didn't like this author's Practical Demonkeeping, but did like Bloodsucking Fiends (well, I'm a sucker --- heh heh --- for good vampire books), and this one has a very wry tone that reminds me of Terry Pratchett at his best; it's a comic novel about the childhood of Joshua (Jesus Christ, to you) told my his best friend Levi (known to all as "Biff").
An Embarrassment of Riches
by Simon Schama
A collection of essays about the history of the Netherlands (in particular the years of empire, when they were really prospering and the great Dutch painters were recording the resultant commercial success and its signs), which is where we are taking our vacation this summer. I expect to browse it on the plane over. Schama wrote a nifty book about the French Revolution called Citizens. He's good.
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