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FROM: Jan Nottingham <mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 2:12 PM

I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in high
school.
All she remembers is that it was about telepathic Amazons and it had a
one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by Marion Zimmer Bradley
but this is not the book. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jan Nottingham
Miami Township Branch Library
Dayton Metro Library
jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org

FROM: "Bergstrom, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Bergstrom@sdcounty.ca.gov>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 2:34 PM

Possibly "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? It was published in 1915 but I read it in high school in the 90s.
I don't remember if they were telepathic, but it was a society of all women.

Jenne Bergstrom
Reference and Young Adult Librarian
San Diego County Library, El Cajon Branch
(619) 588-3703

"She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn."
--Harriet the Spy

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Nottingham [mailto:mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:05 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Telepathic Amazon books

I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in high
school.
All she remembers is that it was about telepathic Amazons and it had a
one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by Marion Zimmer Bradley
but this is not the book. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jan Nottingham
Miami Township Branch Library
Dayton Metro Library
jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 2:34 PM

In 1951, Doublday published L. Sprague de Camp's Rogue Queen , which
might be a possibility. Another, same era, is Poul Anderson's Virgin
Planet.

>>> mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US 4/20/04 2:05:08 PM >>>
I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in
high
school.
All she remembers is that it was about telepathic Amazons and it had a
one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by Marion Zimmer Bradley
but this is not the book. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jan Nottingham
Miami Township Branch Library
Dayton Metro Library
jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org

Marsha Valance
Management Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 3:02 PM

No telepathy that I recall in either ROGUE QUEEN or VIRGIN PLANET.

Couldn't it be another of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books,
even if it's not CITY OF SORCERY? I've read only a couple of them,
and those thirty years ago, but I believe several focus on the
Free Amazon subculture of Darkover, and a sort of telepathy (laran?)
is involved. STORMQUEEN and HAWKMISTRESS are one-word titles.
I haven't read either of those.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

At 02:23 PM 4/20/04 -0500, you wrote:
>In 1951, Doublday published L. Sprague de Camp's Rogue Queen , which
>might be a possibility. Another, same era, is Poul Anderson's Virgin
>Planet.
>
>>>> mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US 4/20/04 2:05:08 PM >>>
>I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in
>high
>school.
>All she remembers is that it was about telepathic Amazons and it had a
>one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by Marion Zimmer Bradley
>but this is not the book. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Jan Nottingham
>Miami Township Branch Library
>Dayton Metro Library
>jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 3:13 PM

I wasn't sure about Virgin Planet, but I believe the insect culture
communicated telepathically. It's been a while, tho.

>>> Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu 4/20/04 2:58:38 PM >>>
No telepathy that I recall in either ROGUE QUEEN or VIRGIN PLANET.

Couldn't it be another of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books,
even if it's not CITY OF SORCERY? I've read only a couple of them,
and those thirty years ago, but I believe several focus on the
Free Amazon subculture of Darkover, and a sort of telepathy (laran?)
is involved. STORMQUEEN and HAWKMISTRESS are one-word titles.
I haven't read either of those.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

At 02:23 PM 4/20/04 -0500, you wrote:
>In 1951, Doublday published L. Sprague de Camp's Rogue Queen , which
>might be a possibility. Another, same era, is Poul Anderson's Virgin
>Planet.
>
>>>> mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US 4/20/04 2:05:08 PM >>>
>I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in
>high
>school.
>All she remembers is that it was about telepathic Amazons and it had
a
>one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by Marion Zimmer Bradley
>but this is not the book. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Jan Nottingham
>Miami Township Branch Library
>Dayton Metro Library
>jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org

Marsha Valance
Management Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 3:18 PM

At 02:58 PM 4/20/04 -0500, you wrote:
STORMQUEEN and HAWKMISTRESS are one-word titles.
>I haven't read either of those.
>
>Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
<snip>
>>
>>>>> mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US 4/20/04 2:05:08 PM >>>
>>I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a book she read in
>>high
>>school.
<snip>

Sorry--I overlooked the "read in high school" qualification. The
two MZBs I cite are circa 1980, so a little too late to be what's
wanted (unless the patron is younger than she appears).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: David Wright <dwright333@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/20/04, 3:41 PM

Gosh, sounds to me like it might be somewhere in
the Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books, which
started in 1972, although I'm not sure where.
David Wright

--- Jan Nottingham <mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US>
wrote:
> I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for
> a book she read in high
> school.
> All she remembers is that it was about
> telepathic Amazons and it had a
> one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by
> Marion Zimmer Bradley
> but this is not the book. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Jan Nottingham
> Miami Township Branch Library
> Dayton Metro Library
> jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org
>
>
>
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FROM: jejones4@uiuc.edu
REC'D: 4/20/04, 4:03 PM

Except for City of Sorcery, already ruled out, none of the Darkover
books featured telepathic Amazons. They did feature both telepaths and
Amazons. For the most part the telepath, whose powers were known as
laran were of the nobility and lived/worked in the Towers. Amazons, or
Free Amazons as they like to be known as were formed in a medieval
period of Darkover's history, the Ages of Chaos from the Priestess of
Avarra and the Sisterhood of the Sword. But as David points out these
were mostly written in the 1970's and 1980's. Worth looking at. A lot
of her titles have been reprinted lately, but I have had a hard time
finding some of the Amazon books, which were not the best written in my
opinion.

A google search for "darkover reading guides" turns up many pages
including: http://www.darkover.com/darkover/index.uk.html. If these
aren't the books, maybe your patron will be interested in them anyway.
I've certainly enjoyed them.

Jessica E. Moyer

M.S. in Library and Information Science
Librarian for the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International
Security (ACDIS) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Phone: (217) 333 9173
Webpage: http://acdisweb.acdis.uiuc.edu/Library.html
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 03:39 PM, David Wright wrote:

> Gosh, sounds to me like it might be somewhere in
> the Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books, which
> started in 1972, although I'm not sure where.
> David Wright
>
> --- Jan Nottingham <mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US>
> wrote:
>> I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for
>> a book she read in high
>> school.
>> All she remembers is that it was about
>> telepathic Amazons and it had a
>> one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by
>> Marion Zimmer Bradley
>> but this is not the book. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan Nottingham
>> Miami Township Branch Library
>> Dayton Metro Library
>> jnottingham@daytonmetrolibrary.org
>>
>

FROM: Sara <twelvecabins@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/23/04, 2:00 PM

--- Jan Nottingham <mt_jan@DAYTON.LIB.OH.US> wrote:
> I have a 50ish year old lady who is looking for a
> book she read in high
> school.
> All she remembers is that it was about telepathic
> Amazons and it had a
> one word title. We have the City of Sorcery by
> Marion Zimmer Bradley
> but this is not the book. Any ideas?

I doubt this is the book, but I just read "The
Firebrand" by Bradley, and although most of the story
focuses on the fall of Troy and on Kassandra, daughter
of Priam, Kassandra does spend a good section of the
book with her Amazon kin, and she has
telepathic/visionary powers.

Best wishes, Sara LS



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