Series
Great Alta
Jane Yolen · 3 novels · 2 short stories · 1988–1998
Great Alta is Jane Yolen's fantasy trilogy: Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988), White Jenna and The One-Armed Queen. It follows a girl raised among an order of women warriors devoted to the goddess Alta, whose life becomes bound to an uncanny companion who appears only in firelight or darkness. The books interleave the main narrative with in-world songs, tales and scholarly fragments about the heroine's growing legend.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Great Alta at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s4
- 1990s1
Shape
3 novels · 2 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasymusicsecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- White Jennadarkest
- Sister Light, Sister Darkbrightest · calmest
- The One-Armed Queenmost intense