Download or read book Darkover Landfall written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkover, a planet of wonder, world of mystery, has been a favourite of science fiction readers for many years. For it is a truly alien sphere - a world of strange intelligences of brooding skies beneath a ruddy sun, and of powers unknown to Earth. In this new novel, Mario Zimmer Bradley tells of the original coming of the Earthmen, of the days when Darkover knew not humanity. This is the full bodied novel of what happened when a colonial starship crashlanded on that uncharted planet to encounter for the first time in human existence the impact of the Ghost Wind, of the psychic currents that were native only to that world, and of the price that every Earthling must pay before Darkover can claim for itself.
Download or read book Exile s Song written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by fleeting, nightmarish memories of her childhood on Darkover, Margaret Alton flees her home with her uncommunicative, brooding father to take a job as assistant to musicologist Ivor Davidson, a career that takes her back to Darkover and a terrifying confrontation with the past.
Download or read book Marion Zimmer Bradley s Darkover written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...an incredible blending of fantasy and science fiction. Eventually the Terrans rediscover their long-lost -- and now alien -- colony: Darkover. Things are different there. While adolescent male homosexuality is generally tolerated on Darkover, men are expected to outgrow it. When Dyan Ardais takes lovers young enough to be his sons, he risks not just his reputation, but his life. Life in a Tower as a Keeper, the chaste virgin who holds a circle together, is grueling. Few succeed in the long, painful years of training. The ones who do have power greater than any queen, but what happens to the ones who don't? Darkovan technology is based on matrix stones that amplify psychic gifts, and people with those gifts work in the Tower circles. But duty to family outweighs everything else, and anyone can be called home from the Tower to marry as her family dictates. A Comyn lady can have lands, wealth, family...everything but freedom. Women can become Free Amazons, but that life has its own set of challenges. Before a candidate's trial period ends, she must decide if she is truly meant to cope with everything being a Free Amazon entails.
Download or read book Traitor s Sun written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traitor's Sun continues the epic saga of Darkover, the award-winning series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her most brilliant and popular creation, the Darkover books take readers to a planet torn by rebellion--and struggling for freedom...
Download or read book Domains of Darkover written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh anthology of all-original Darkover stories adds to the legends of the Planet of the Bloody Sun. This volume contains stories by Deborah J. Ross, Mercedes Lackey, Lynne Armstrong-Jones, Barbara Denz, Cynthia Drolet, Mary Frey, Dorothy J. Heydt, Judith Kobylecky, Meg MacDonald, Patricia Duffy Novak, Diann Patridge, Janet Rhodes, Judith Sampson, Micole Sudberg, Joan Marie Verba, L.D. Woeltjen, and Elisabeth Waters & Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Download or read book Rediscovery written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonie Hastur has a high degree of laran, the telepathic power of the Comyn caste, and wants to be Keeper of Arilinn Tower, which will give her as much power as her twin brother Lorill, Heir to Hastur. But she has a premonition that something strange and disturbing will come from the sky and change their world forever. She is correct. Ysaye Barnett loves life on shipboard and would happily stay right there, with her beloved computers, forever. Her best friend Elizabeth Mackintosh, a musician and anthropologist, and her fiance, linguist David Lorne, want to marry and have children, which means they need a planet they can settle on and make their lives' work. They are very excited about the new planet, especially when they realize that it's a lost Terran colony. As five young lives and their very different cultures meet, all of them will be changed by the encounter.
Download or read book Hawkmistress written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She had the MacAran Gift, the rare laran that conferred mastery over hawk and horse. There was war in the lands of Darkover for this was the age of chaos when usurpers took the throne and the true king wandered in disguise with a price on his head. Romilly wanted none of all this, but there were those who shared her talents - the men and women of the Towers. And for them, Romilly was the key. Whether male-garbed or beast-minded, she was also human. And duty to her own true kind pointed her to the ultimate decision.
Download or read book Renunciates of Darkover written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth Darkover anthology returns to stories about the Free Amazons, also called Renunciates. Here are twenty-two brand new tales about the Renunciates, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's account of how Camilla and Rafaella changed from enemies to best friends. Stories in this volume were written by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah J. Ross, Mercedes Lackey, Diana L. Paxson, Elisabeth Waters, Emily Alward, Priscilla W. Armstrong, Lynne Armstrong-Jones, Chel Avery, Margaret L. Carter, Patricia B. Cirone, Mary Fenoglio, Kelly B. Jaggers, Judith Kobylecky, Jean Lamb, Vera Nazarian, Patricia Duffy Novak, Diann S. Partridge, Andrew Rey, Janet R. Rhodes, Annette Rodriguez, and Joan Marie Verba.
Download or read book The Planet Savers written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Planet Savers" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Heritage and Exile written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heritage of Hastur: Nominated for a Hugo Award, and described as “Bradley’s best [Darkover] novel” by Lous, THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR is a brilliant epic of the pivotal events in the love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien off-spring of the forgotten colonists who peopled Darkover. This is the complex and compelling tale of the early life of Regis Hastur, Darkover’s greatest monarch. But HERITAGE also spins the terrifying and heartbreaking story of those who sought to control the deadly Sharra Matrix and tells how Lew Alton met and lost his greatest love, Marjorie Scott. This is the unforgettable showdown between these Darkovan lords who would bargain away their world for the glories of Terran science and those who would preserve the special matrix powers that are at once the prize and burden of Darkover. Sharra’s Exile: The most dangerous magical implement on all of Darkover was the infamous, legendary Sharra Matrix. Embodying the image of a chained woman wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Ages of Chaos—an era of uncontrolled laran warfare which had almost destroyed all life on Darkover. The Sharra Matrix had been exiled offworld to one of the far-flung planets of the Terran Empire, in the protective custody of one who had suffered gravely from its use: Comyn Lord Lew Alton. But when Lew was called back to Darkover to contend for his rights, he had no choice but to bring this dangerous matrix back with him, and once the Sharra Matrix was black, her flaming image spread far and wide, setting motion events which would change the lands, the seven Domains, and the entire future forever.
Download or read book The Other Side of the Mirror written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth anthology of all-original Darkover stories, first published in 1987, contains the following: Bride Price, by Marion Zimmer Bradley Everything But Freedom, a novella by Marion Zimmer Bradley Oathbreaker, by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Other Side of the Mirror, a novella by Patricia Floss Blood Hunt, by Linda Frankel & Paula Crunk
Download or read book Stormqueen written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great epic of Darkover did not begin with the Terrans' arrival. For in those years, the power of the matrix was first learned - and misused in a power struggle that could have made Darkover a duplicate of Terra.
Download or read book Rediscovery written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by DAW Hardcover. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonie Hastur, headstrong and lovely daughter of the Hastur Clan, most powerful of all the telepathic families who rule Darkover, is being escorted by her twin brother Lorill to Dalreuth Tower for training in the use of her psychic powers. Although this is the even she has long dreamed of - for her laran is so strong that she has been able to use it without benefit of training or the need of a matrix crystal - and she yearns for the power which will come to her if she succeeds in becoming a keeper, she is deeply disturbed. For she is plagued by a terrifying premonition that haunts her days and disrupts her nights, the inescapable feeling that something is about to happen - something monumental and dangerous which will descend upon her world and change it utterly. And all she knows for certain is that this something will be coming from one of Darkover's four moons...
Download or read book The Winds of Darkover written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Barron was a rational and efficient member of the Terran space-force - until nightmare visions drove him from the safety of the trade city into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges. Into an ancient battle that would shape the destiny of more than one world. One of the earliest Darkover novels to reveal the awesome and terrifying powers of the infamous Sharra Matrix - in a story of violence and vengeance as the Storn family is held hostage in the frigid High Hellers.
Download or read book Thendara House written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a place on Darkover where the Order of the Renunciates dwelled - women as Free Amazons, who had renounced all subservience to men. And who sought for total equality in all spheres of society. To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaella, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of these two cultures - one male-dominated, one egalitarian, brings into focus all the deepest questions of love and marriage, of male and female, of justice and injustice. Thendaria House is a novel of future speculation destined to be a classic masterwork o the role of women in any world.
Download or read book The Heirs of Hammerfell written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated at birth... Nobody alive knew how the feud between Storn and Hammefell had begun, but that didn't stop the fighting. When Storn's men burned Hammerfell's castle, his infant twin sons were separated, and each grew up thinking himself the rightful Duke of Hammerfell. Conn, raised in the mountains by his father's paxman, continued to fight the Storns. Alastair grew up with his mother in Thendara and planned to marry his cousin Floria. But when Conn came to Thendara to seek King Aiden's help and the twins encountered each other, it changed all their lives.
Download or read book The Heritage of Hastur written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by D A W Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most dangerous magical implement on all of Darkover was the infamous, legendary Sharra Matrix. The Sharra Matrix had been exiled offworld in the protective custody of Comyn Lord Lew Alton. But when Lew was called back to Darkover to contest his rights, he had no choice but to bring this dangerous matrix back with him.
