Thendara House | Characters
Although strong female central characters are perhaps even more unusual in science fiction as they are in mainstream fiction, both Jaelle (Jaelle n'ha Mellora) and Magda (Magdalena Lome, in Darkovan "Margali") are spunky, self-sufficient, warm, engaging, resourceful, and active. They share the dual Darkoveran-Terran nature of many Bradley heroines—part Terran and part Darkovan, as well as the same job in Terran Intelligence helping build understanding between the two societies. Both are in a sense displaced—Magda to Darkover, and Jaelle , kidnapped as a child to the Dry Towns and...
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