Download or read book A Flame in Hali written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by DAW Hardcover. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Darkover, it is the era of the Hundred Kingdoms - a time of nearly continuous war and bloody disputes between minor kings who seek to increase their power by usurping their neighbors' domains. A time when Towers are conscripted to produce terrifying laran weapons - weapons which kill from afar, poisoning the very land itself for decades to come. In this dark time, there seems no limit to the violence men are willing to wage against their adversaries in the name of power." "But in this terrifying time of greed and imperialism, two powerful men have devoted their lives to changing their world and eliminating these terrible weapons. For years King Carolin of Hastur and his close friend, Keeper Varzil Ridenow have dreamed of a world without war. Now they petition the domains of Darkover to adopt a decree that they call the Compact. Their Compact, a law based on honor, will ban all distance weapons, thus forcing one who seeks to kill another to fight hand to hand and face equal risk. Sadly, the Compact remains just an idealistic dream, for few kingdoms are willing to leave their borders undefended against hostile neighboring domains." "But while Varzil and Carolin continue their difficult campaign to bring peace to Darkover, another man hides in the alleys of Thendara, biding his time and plotting the destruction of these two heroic men. For Eduin Deslucido, renegade laranzu who disappeared during the battle which nearly destroyed Hestral Tower, still lives." "Carolin Hastur had been Eduin's beloved friend when they had trained together at Arilinn Tower, but now Eduin lives only to seek his old friend's death. For Eduin's father Rumail, who should have guided him, supported him, and nourished his powerful laran abilities, has instead wedded his son's soul to his own fanatic quest for vengeance. On Rumail's deathbed he sets a compulsion spell in Eduin's mind - a spell so powerful it haunts Eduin's every waking moment - a spell of destruction against Carolin Hastur and all of his clan." "Tormented by the spell of his dead father, compelled to kill a man he once loved, wanted by the Towers for laran crimes, can Eduin break free of the shackles which bind his mind, or is he doomed to carry out Rumail's deadly plans for revenge?"--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book A Flame in Hali written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, King Carolin of Hastur and his friend Keeper Varzil Ridenow work selflessly to put an end to the destruction caused by the long range weapons of the magical matrix Towers. But Eduin Deslucido-who once called Carolin brother-has been consumed with a vengeful rage, and will stop at nothing to destroy the king and his plan for peace.

Download or read book A Flame in Hali written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Daw Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Carolin and Varzil Ridenow, a Keeper, join forces to bring peace to Darkover, but, hiding in the shadows of Thendara, an enemy from Carolin's past, caught in the grip of a compulsion spell, is desperate to bring about the death of these two courageous men. Reprint.

Download or read book A Flame in Hali written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, King Carolin of Hastur and his friend Keeper Varzil Ridenow work selflessly to put an end to the destruction caused by the long range weapons of the magical matrix Towers. But Eduin Deslucido-who once called Carolin brother-has been consumed with a vengeful rage, and will stop at nothing to destroy the king and his plan for peace.

Download or read book Zandru s Forge written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover.

Download or read book The Poisoned Crown Novelette written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Deborah J. Ross. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king is dead, long live the prince, but not for long if his stepmother the Queen Regent has anything to say about it. So he appeals to the one person he can trust, his father’s best swordswoman and the king’s secret lover. Venise wants nothing more than to bury herself in her grief at the king’s death, but her conscience will not allow her to abandon the young man who is so like his father. The only question is whether the two of them can stand against the Queen Regent’s black magic.

Download or read book Collaborators written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Deborah J. Ross. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-rate world-building from a writer gifted with soaring imagination and good old-fashioned Sense of Wonder. — C.J. Cherryh A romantic and intellectually sexy gender discussion wrapped up in a compelling novel. — J. M. Frey, Lambda Literary Award reviews Poised on the brink of war, the people of the planet Bandar are stunned by the arrival of a disabled Terran space ship. But the Terrans are even less prepared to understand the politics, gender fluidity, or mob reflexes of the natives. The Terran captain uses increasing force as the only way to ensure desperately needed repairs. Hoping to bring enlightened human values to the natives, a young scientist's intervention leads to disaster. After a vicious assault, a pregnant native becomes radicalized. A failed poet sees the Terran occupation as a way to gain the recognition he craves. A widow whose farm is bombed using Terran weaponry journeys to the capital in search of help and ends up facing a firing squad. And a reporter becomes the voice of the resistance, determined to take back his world from the invaders... As violence escalates, the fate of both peoples rests with those who have suffered the most. Can they find a way to forgiveness . . . and peace? Lambda Literary Award Finalist James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2014 Long List

Download or read book A Heat Wave in the Hellers and Other Tales of Darkover written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Deborah J. Ross. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : In 1985, Deborah J. Ross sold her first Darkover short story to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Free Amazons of Darkover. For the first time, here are all of Ross’s Darkover short stories, some of them previously unpublished, now collected in one volume. ...A pair of City Guards cadets invent an imaginary recruit in order to avoid their chores, and then must face the consequences… In the Ages of Chaos, a young wizard must rely on his uncertain powers to survive a haunted Tower… Only the legendary Keeper could save her circle under the onslaught of forbidden weapons, but the results would cripple generations of women to come… …and in the title story, written as a birthday gift, Ross sends Marion Zimmer Bradley herself to Darkover to solve a crisis in “A Heat Wave in the Hellers”…

Download or read book Witch and Wombat written by Carolyn Cushman and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magic realm is set on a collision course with wackiness when a witch and her wombat sidekick guide an assortment of tourists from the mortal world through an enchanted forest they think is merely a high-tech amusement park.

Download or read book The Heir of Khored written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final volume of The Seven-Petaled Shield series! For Shannivar, warrior of the Azkhantia Steppe, the future is grim. She faces twin threats: the mighty Gelon empire, ruthessly conquering independent nations like her own, and the malevolent entity of Fire and Ice, unleashed from its prison in the Far North. And she must face them alone. After meeting Zevaron, an exiled prince in search of aid from Azkhantia, Shannivar and Zevaron had traveled together and fallen in love. But their journey to the north to investigate dangerous omens failed when Zevaron was enthralled by the monstrous Fire and Ice. Now Zevaron's hatred for Gelon, the empire that destroyed his kingdom and killed his mother, threatens to consume not only him, but all the living world.

Download or read book Shannivar written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus notable new release! Shannivar is a young warrior, skilled in horsemanship and archery and raised by her uncle, the clan chieftain. When all the other young warrior-women have set aside their bows and arrows for husbands, she still dreams of glory. Desperate to resist the imperialistic arm of the nearby growing empire, all of the clans of her nation are gathering to propose an alliance. As Shannivar and her fellow delegates travel to the meeting, they encounter a stranger, Zevaron, heir to the magical Seven-Petaled Shield. Zevaron also seeks to halt the empire’s expansion on behalf of his own fallen lost nation and joins forces with Shannivar. Shannivar has never met anyone like Zevaron, with his aura of power and quiet assurance. Soon the clan gathering is ready, except for the mysterious absence of the clan from the far north. When the ragged band of the missing delegates finally arrive, they tell strange and ominous stories; and Zevaron, bestowed with the ancient central stone of the mystical Seven-Petaled Shield, feels a great emanation of danger from the north . Together, he and Shannivar set out on a journey to discover the source of these dangers—a quest even the prophets believe will fail. Shannivar is the second installment of the thrilling The Seven-Petaled Shield series.

Download or read book The Seven Petaled Shield written by Deborah J. Ross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a widowed queen, the guardian of the magical Seven-Petaled Shield, is separated for her son, her son believes her to be dead and vows chaotic vengeance, but only his mother and a nomadic horsewoman can heal his heart and prevent him from descending into pure evil. First in a new trilogy.

Download or read book To Save A World Darkover Omnibus 7 written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An omnibus volume of two of Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels, including the first Darkover novel ever written! To Save a World includes The World Wreckers and the Planet Savers, plus the short story "The Waterfall." The Planet Savers: Originally published in Amazing Stories in December 1958, The Planet Savers was the very firs Darkover novel to see print. It was here readers were first introduced to the now legendary world of Cottman IV, at a time when the Terrans are desperately seeking a cure to a disease of epidemic proportions that threatens the lives of Terrans and Darkovans alike. For every forty-eight years, Trailmen’s fever, a childhood illness among this native and venerable race, becomes pandemic, decimating the human population of this rustic planet. Now, one brave Terran doctor must join a Darkovan expedition into the wild mountainous terrain of the Trailmen in a desperate attempt to create a vaccine and eradicate this terrible plague once and for all. The World Wreckers: Planetary Investments Unlimited—that was the company’s official name, but unofficially it was known as Worldwreckers, Inc. For a fee, its agent would infiltrate any world unwilling to give up its independence, and do enough damage that the natives would be forced to allow Terran investors to step in and salvage their planet. And now, once again, its agents were at work. In the 78 years since the planet Cottman IV—called Darkover by its natives—was rediscovered by the Terran Empire, all efforts to colonize and industrialize this exotic world had failed. And the person in charge of Worldwreckers, Inc.—a centuries-old being who appeared to be a woman—had decided to take on this particular assignment herself. After all, she had special insight into this world, for long ago—lifetimes ago—she had called Darkover home….

Download or read book Thunderlord written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of two kingdoms, divided by bitter history and present-day suspicions, one armed with devastating power and the other determined to overcome it, no matter what the price. Can love and resourcefulness overcome even the overwhelming power of a Thunderlord? A follow-up to The Ages of Chaos omnibus, Thunderlord is a brand-new novel of the genre-bending Darkover universe, expanded by Marion Zimmer Bradley's collaborator Deborah J. Ross.

Download or read book The Children of Kings written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting fantasy adventure set in Marion Zimmer Bradley's popular world of Darkover Court life for Prince Gareth Elhalyn, grandson of the legendary Regis Hastur, has become unbearable. In a desperate attempt to escape, Gareth appeals to his powerful grandmother, Linnea, and with her blessing, disguises himself and travels to the barbarous, warlike Dry Towns where no one will recognize a prince. In the Dry Towns, Gareth overhears rumors of deadly, illegal Terran blasters and stumbles upon a terrible reality no one could have suspected. Meanwhile, Linnea has never ceased to search for her lost daughter, Kierestelli, whom she and Regis were forced to send into hiding with the native chieri. Almost by chance, Linnea reconnects along the telepathic relays with Kierestelli, now called Silvana of Nevarsin Tower. Silvana, convinced that her parents abandoned her, rejects her mother’s overture and returns to her hidden home among the chieri. But the chieri once roamed the stars themselves, and they have no forgotten the terror of warfare in space—lessons that they pass on to Silvana. Unknown to the ruling Comyn, danger now fills the skies above Darkover, and Silvana holds half the key to protecting their world. Gareth holds the other half, if he can only stay alive long enough to discover where that key is....

Download or read book Rote Meto Comparative Dictionary written by Owen Edwards and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relate to forms in other languages including Proto‑Malayo‑Polynesian etyma (where known) and/or out-comparisons to putative cognates in other languages of the region. The dictionary also contains two finder-lists: English to Rote-Meto, and Austronesian reconstructions with Rote-Meto reflexes. The dictionary is preceded by three introductory chapters. The first chapter contains a guide to using the dictionary as well as discussion of the data sources. The second chapter provides a short synchronic overview of the Rote-Meto langauges. The third chapter discusses the historical background of Rote-Meto. This includes sound correspondences, the internal subgrouping of the Rote-Meto family, and the position of Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian more broadly. Searchable electronic versions of the comparative dictionary are provided in two formats at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/251618. The first electronic version is a Lexique Pro export of the dictionary. The Lexique Pro file contains the same data and information in the book version of the dictionary, but does not contain the introductory chapters. See the "About Rote-Meto" tab of the Lexique Pro file for more information on this version of the dictionary. The second electronic version is a text file. It is formatted as a tab separated file and is intended to be read in spreadsheet format. This text file does not contain all the data and information in other versions of the Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary and should be used in conjunction with these other versions. See the associated readme for more information on what data is included and excluded from that text file.

Download or read book The Fall of Neskaya written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of Neskaya, Book One of the Clingfire Trilogy, marks the legendary author's final return to Darkover before her death. Set in the tumultuous era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a terrible time of strife and war, this unique fantasy world is divided into a mutlitude of small belligerent domains vying for power and land. One ambitious and corrupt tyrant will stop at nothing to control Darkover-even wield the terrifying weapons of the matrix.