“One of the best book I’ve read this year.” —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

“Only one science fiction book in hundreds manages to convince the reader that it ever could have happened anywhere, and at least that few are worth reading at all….[Charnas has] created a future that is at once believable and fascinating.” —William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch

“[Motherlines is] a pioneer exercise in women’s fantasies of independence, skill, freedom. It has a robust, earthy beauty. She has a genius for grasping ideas and dreams that are in the air and making them concrete and dramatic in her fiction.” —Marge Piercy, author of Gone to Soldiers and Woman on the Edge of Time