{"product_id":"the-saga-of-the-renunciates-9780756400927","title":"The Saga of the Renunciates","description":"\u003cb\u003eReturn to the genre-bending world of Darkover, to a trilogy that follows the thrilling story of two Free Amazon women\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the three novels which comprise THE SAGA OF THE RENUNCIATES, Marion Zimmer Bradley tells the masterful tale of two valiant women who face and try to break the invisible chains of custom, convention, habit and expectation with which society binds women, and women bind themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMagdalen Lorne is a Terran woman born and reared on Darkover. She thinks herself the perfect Terran undercover Intelligence agent, and disguises herself as a Free Amazon to enable her to fulfill a mission to free a Terran man from kidnappers. But when she herself is captured by a band of real Renunciates, she discovers they have a harsh punishment for any pretenders: she must swear the Oath of the Free Amazons, relinquish her former life, and become a Renunciate in reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJaelle has been raised in the harsh patriarchal environment of the Dry Towns. Her mother Mellora is a Comyn woman who has been kidnapped in order to breed \u003ci\u003elaran-\u003c\/i\u003egifted offspring for her barbarian \"husband.\" But when a desperate, pregnant Mellora dies in childbirth following a daring escape aided by a band of Renunciates, the still young Jaelle is adopted into the Guild, and becomes the Free Amazon Jaelle n'ha Mellora, a woman who has never known kindness from a man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether Magda, now known as Margali n'ha Tsabet, and her Guild-sister Jaelle will follow a twisting course neither could have predicted. A course which will lead them to question every aspect of themselves and of their two so-different societies. And one which will eventually set them on a life-threatening journey not only to the frozen ends of the physical world, but to the perilous limits of the spiritual overworld as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarion Zimmer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.\u003cp\u003eShe was a science fiction\/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in \u003ci\u003eFantastic\/Amazing Stories\u003c\/i\u003e in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to \u003ci\u003eVortex Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including \u003ci\u003eMarion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called \u003ci\u003eSword and Sorceress\u003c\/i\u003e for DAW Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was \"fantasy undiluted\". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled \u003ci\u003eMists of Avalon\u003c\/i\u003e, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Firebrand\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Forest House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLady of Avalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMists of Avalon\u003c\/i\u003e are prequels to \u003ci\u003ePriestess of Avalon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daw Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51180974768402,"sku":"9780756400927","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_67b0548d-c664-4892-ba5c-7063e1075fdc.jpg?v=1744387875","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-saga-of-the-renunciates-9780756400927","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}