Warrior woman

Description

This is not a typical Marion Zimmer Bradley novel. This book is the result of a bet between Marion and Don Wollheim, her editor for the Darkover novels at DAW Books. In addition, it's her response to the Gor novels - where men were men and women were slaves - that were also being published by DAW Books. Yes, this book does start out with a heroine who has been captured and is being sold as a slave, who has amnesia and remembers nothing of her life before the trip across the desert with the slavers - and, due to a head injury, remembers mercifully little of that. But she does know that she would rather fight in the arena than be a harlot for the men who do, and that choice changes the rest of the book. In a Gor-style novel the woman would become less her own person, eventually learning to be a contented and obedient slave. In this book, even while the heroine, called Zadieyek of Gyre, remains a slave, she is something quite different from the typical 'slave girl' - she grows and develops, always searching for her memory and her past, convinced that this is not how her life is supposed to be. And, of course, she's right.

Description

They called her Zadieyek of Gyre, which meant dreaded woman. She was a fighter, dangerous to confront. Dreaded. The distant city of Gyre trained such women, so they thought she came from there. If she had a real name and a true birthplace, she could not remember them. Her life had apparently begun with her sale to the Arena for a short brief stardom fighting vicious men and savage beasts. Because she was a skilled gladiator, she became an object of value. Bids were made for her body, by those who wanted a winner, or a valued slave. For herself, she wanted freedom.

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• Warrior womanPaperbackDAW1985-09-03
• Warrior womanPaperbackDAW1985-09-03