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Okay, there this fantasy series I’m trying to find. I don’t know the name of the author, and I don’t know the names of any of the books. I think it is a trilogy. It may be targeted to young adults (read: teens/pre-teens). I came across it in my school library in junior high, so I know it had to have been written before, say, 1986. In my mind, it was located in the general area of the “M” authors on the shelves, but that might be a red herring.
As I said, it’s fantasy. The heroine is a young woman, probably a teenager. She lives in a standard fantasy society, i.e. about a medieval level of tech, etc. The society is controlled or shaped by a prevailing “religious” belief or organization. The religion is oppressive and dogmatic. It is built around a belief in certain beings, or “gods,” that appear in the form of flying centaurs. These “gods” are also sometimes accompanied by pegasi. Nobody ever sees them, or perhaps only seldom, but that doesn’t stop the religion from believing in them and building a whole theology/theocracy around them.
From here on, it gets foggy. The heroine, as some point, actually sees these “gods” and the pegasi. There is also a green, glowing stone or jewel, or rather a number of such stones or jewels, that possess remarkable powers that I don’t recall. Near the climax of the series, the heroine finds herself moving chaotically through time and space, even to the point of influencing her own past actions from earlier in the series. I remember a particular scene where she, or another major character, is captured and thrown across the back of a smelly mule or donkey, and has to try to hide the green stone/jewel in the cloth and hay saddle.
Finally, the heroine learns that the “gods” do in fact exist, and can interact with people in a way, but that they are not gods at all. They are simply beings from another dimension that approaches close to or intersects the heroine’s dimension in some places.
Well, that’s about it. Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I remember really liking this series when I was a kid, and would love to reread it.
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Not Wrinkle in Time. Not even close. Thanks for giving it a shot, though. That's been about the only thing anyone else I've asked has been able to come up with, too.
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Some of your description reminds me quite a bit of Anne MacCaffrey's The Ship Who Won. It's part of her "Brain and Brawn" series, and it's actually not fantasy but science fiction . . . well, sort of.
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I don't have an answer. But your description made ME want to read the series. Hope someone knows what it is...
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