The third wheel is composed of following novels:
The broken chain or the status of women, yet ...
Novel written in 1976, the second volume (in chronological order) of rediscovery cycle (or Terran Empire) and the first volume of the sub-cycle of the trilogy Renunciates (or Free Amazons).
The story takes place between 13 and 25 years after the first contact (reported in Rediscovery) and directed women as main characters of the Guild of Free Amazons, after the Sisterhood of the Sword (see especially The beautiful falconer ) and priestesses of Avarra (see especially The Wolf Kilghard).
The book is actually a compilation of three new thread whose character is Jaelle'Ha Melora. In the first part we witness his release, in a second his meeting with a land agent for the release (yet another Terran agent) and in the last part to the romance with the agent.
In this novel, in dry cities, women wear chains, literally, as in the fields, they are free but always subject to men.
Women, which is not arranged over the series, is back, and this is recurring in this series, the workhorse of the author. It also discusses the intricacies of language and translation and gender relations in this medieval world. SF portion of the Terran Empire is hardly discussed (in the second part).
Very little action in this volume a bit chatty (it must get the message) but still readable.
A book very "woman" in both topics, the characters portrayed and psychology worked, though for some a bit elementary, and sex of the author. But even though I prefer a darker fantasy, more brutal, more "masculine" I had a good time with these Amazons.
Monitoring The home of the Amazons where the clash of cultures.
Novel written in 1983, the second volume of the sub-cycle of Free Amazons.
Magdalen Lorne or Margali n'ha Ysabet Darkovans his name has taken the oath of the Free Amazons and Melora Jaelle n'ha or Mrs. Peter Haldane joined the Terran Zone to follow her new husband (common-law course).
Both will have to learn to live in the environment of the other with the necessary adaptations.
Magda in the house of the Amazons, will find a brotherhood that she had never known and finds himself propelled into Jaelle a modern and technological environment, exposed this time with her husband and prejudice and / or aspirations that are not necessarily his.
It is a clash of cultures, a clash of civilizations that had glimpsed in Episode Rediscovery, which is developed further here.
In this volume there also develops the doctrine of Free Amazons and addresses (in addition to the condition of the ever-present implicit woman) female homosexuality and the existential questions of the pregnant woman.
This novel (especially at first) is punctuated by numerous repetitions of the previous volume. What was perhaps welcome the time of publication (seven years separate the two volumes) but that is a bit annoying in the case of a group reading (especially in the case of an integral). Finally it is a little thicker than the average volume of this saga and I found him lengths.
Always so little action and too talkative, but honest distraction.
And finally the mirage city where a first quest.
Novel written in 1984 and last volume of the sub-cycle of Free Amazons.
The story takes place 7-8 years after the end of volume two. Staff exchanges between the Terran Zone and Free Amazons are now in place, to the point that the chain of union company was created to support them.
Jaelle and Magda each had a child.
When the Terran reco crashes beyond the Wall around the World, where everything is frozen desert and suddenly reappears at the gates of the Terran Zone, speaking in a mirage city, a mystery settles. Should we send a shipment? And this secret sorority (glimpsed in previous volumes), she has a role to play?
Registry is changed. Where the first two installment dealt with the status of women and everything that revolves around this new book covers all the codes of classical Fantasy: The Quest, the famous quest, with a story that is more committed to the path for the object or purpose of the quest itself. A nervous novel, faster, less talkative.
A beautiful ballad in the Heller. And that quail in heller, take your mittens and thick socks.
