Book description
It was a place on Darkover where the Order of the Renunciates dwelled -
women as Free Amazons, who had renounced all subservience to men And who
sought for total equality in all spheres of society. To Thendara House
came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaella, who had
become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The
cross-currents of these two cultures - one male-dominated, one
egalitarian, brings into focus all the deepest questions of love and
marriage of male and female of justice and injustice. Thendaria House is
a novel of future speculation destined to be a classic masterwork o the
role of women in any world. Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 - 1999) Marion
Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, in 1930, and married
Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She received a B. A. from Hardin Simmons
University, Texas, and did post-graduate work at the University of
California, Berkeley, during which time she helped found the Society for
Creative Anachronism. She sold her first story in 1952 and was a writer
of note for over four decades. Bradley is best known for two signature
series: the 'Darkover' science fantasy series and her Arthurian
masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon and its sequels. She also edited
anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy
Magazine, which ran for 50 quarterly issues between 1988 and the end of
2000. Marion Zimmer Bradley died in Berkeley, California, on September
25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.
