Daughters of Artemis - Softcover

Townsend, L. M.

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974412139 ISBN 13: 9780974412139

Publisher: Dare 2 Dream Pub, 2003

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To anyone who saw the 2017 film, "Wonder Woman," the scenes in this book will be very familiar, despite being written over a decade before the film. There is a universal image of Amazons, inspired as this book was, by the greatest of fictional Amazons to ever grace page or screen (either small or large).

For those who cannot get enough of the Amazons, those who would desperately love to move to the Themicyra of the big screen, this book will take you home.

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From the Author:

Daughters of Artemis is a novel that started out as a screenplay. It was my hope that I could fill a void left by the ending of a beloved television show. Now I realize that some things are irreplaceable, but as the story unfolded before me, I realized that it was a great story and that the screenplay would probably never see production. So, at the suggestion of my friend, Sam, I turned it into the novel you now hold in your hands. Since I had originally planned for Daughters of Artemis to be performed, naturally, I "cast" the roles and it is the voices of the actors I heard in my head while writing the dialogue, though probably not the same actors my readers will see and hear, and eventually, the characters evolved into having their own voices and faces. There is one very important thing that you must keep in mind as you read this story: it is not historically accurate. I did a lot of research to create the "feel" ofthe time and place,but I know that Neolithic matristic societies, such as the Amazons would have been, did not exist during the height of Roman empiricism. If you are an historical purist for whom such blatant inaccuracies will spoil the story, then consider that this story takes place in an alternative universe.Most importantly, I want readers to enjoy this story, to laugh and to cry and to love the characters who populate it as much as I do

From the Back Cover:

Daughters of Artemis It is ten years after the battle that almost completely wiped out the once strong and proud Amazon Nation, a battle in which their queen, Aradia, was captured. Betrayed by one of their own sister tribes, the Amazons are on the verge of extinction. Powerful forces are at work to see that they do not recover.

Aradia manages to escape and makes her way home to reunite and rebuild the scattered remnants of the Nation. She must retrieve and discover the secrets of the elusive Sword of Artemis in time to evade recapture by the Romans and the complete destruction of her people. Can her protege -- a young girl caught up in mysterious forces and hampered by her own thirst for revenge against her mother's killers -- overcome her anger and reunite all the Amazon tribes in order to battle their common enemy?

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