Gildenhaus Thendara
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783811828346 (3811828347)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Moewig bei Ullstein
Pages no: 490
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: Darkover 6 (#13)
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote 18 Darkover novels--more if you include collaborations. Darkover is a "lost colony" of Earth that falls into a medieval society ruled by a psychic aristocracy and is later rediscovered by a star-spanning advanced human federation after centuries, giving the series a feel ...
Re-read. Hack writing, lousy editing, strong characters & plotting.
Series background: a human colony ship crash lands on the wrong planet. They name it Darkover and do their best to survive in a fairly hostile landscape. Over the centuries they forget their off-world origins and develop a vaguely feudal society. The nobility, called the Comyn, is comprised of seven...
[These notes were made in 1984:]. The Mists of Avalon had a definite feminist bent. This has gone further into the realms of radical feminism, and depicts a society (the Free Amazons) where lesbianism is the norm, at the same time as it shows the break-up of a heterosexual marriage. Like Shirley, ...