Thendara House
A romantic fantasy set in a futuristic society divided by two cultures, one male dominated and one egalitarian, where the roles of male and female, love and marriage and justice and injustice are brought sharply into focus. From the author of CASTLE TERROR.
A romantic fantasy set in a futuristic society divided by two cultures, one male dominated and one egalitarian, where the roles of male and female, love and marriage and justice and injustice are brought sharply into focus. From the author of CASTLE TERROR.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780886771195 (0886771196)
Publish date: September 1st 1983
Publisher: DAW
Edition language: English
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, ...
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