Richard Hescox - Leroni of Darkover
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover Anthology edited by MZB Cover Art by: David A. Cherry More MZB Cover Art: readaroundtheclock.blogspot.com/2015/04/cover-art-for-mar...
For more than six decades, readers have fallen in love with Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover, a "Lost Colony" world of telepaths, swordsmen, intelligent alien races, and long-buried mysteries. From the glacier-shrouded Hellers Mountains to the arid Dry Towns, the ancient realms of the Ages of Chaos, and the star-faring Terran Federation, Darkover is brimming with adventure, intrigue, and romance. Editor Deborah J. Ross proudly presents this all-original collection in the finest spirit of Darkovan tales for your reading delight. Evey Brett + Barb Caffrey + Margaret L. Carter and Leslie Roy Carter + Lillian Csernica + India and Rosemary Edghill + Leslie Fish + Shariann Lewitt + Marella Sands + Deborah Millitello + Diana L. Paxson + Rhondi Salsitz
Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover Landfall - 1972 Publisher: DAW Books, Inc. This edition: 15th printing (first printing, December 1972) Cover Art by George Barr Border Art by Richard Hescox More MZB cover art is available here: readaroundtheclock.blogspot.com/2015/04/cover-art-for-mar... My thoughts on Darkover Landfall can be found here: readaroundtheclock.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-darkover-l...
Terran child psychologist Bryn Haslund has her hands full, treating the traumatized young victims of the interplanetary Star Alliance. She's tried to stay out of politics, leaving that to her charismatic statesman father, Ernst. Despite her best efforts to remain neutral, she gets caught in the crackdown of a protest-turned-riot. Then Ernst delivers a robotic speech in support of the Alliance's tyrannical leader and goes missing. With the Alliance's secret police hot on her heels, Bryn finally locates her father in the research labs on Alpha, only to find that a mind-control device has been implanted in his brain. Searching for a way to disable the device, she discovers the records of a remote, almost-forgotten planet where telepathic powers have been developed to an extraordinary degree…Darkover, a Lost Colony world circling a dim red star far out on the galactic rim. In the desperate hope that natural telepathy can disable the mechanical device and free her father's mind, she hustles him onboard a smuggler's ship. When they try to land on Darkover, however, powerful winds knock their shuttle off-course, and it crashes in a rugged, glaciated mountain range. As the shuttle spins out of control, Bryn cries out for help… …and someone answers her telepathic plea. Darkover poses its own dangers, from ice avalanches to bandits to gigantic carnivorous birds. Moreover, the planet has a complicated, often contentious history with Terra. When the Terrans rediscovered Darkover after millennia of isolation, the aristocratic Comyn struggled to maintain their unique culture, often at a terrible price. Using their extraordinary psychic abilities called laran, they forced the Terrans to honor Darkover's independence. The vicious interstellar wars waged by the Star Alliance eventually forced the Terrans to withdraw. Two generations later, smugglers, pirates, and rebels still use Darkover as a hidden base, threatening to drag the Comyn into their own battles. So far, Darkover's leaders have managed to avoid becoming a battleground for a larger conflict. Now Bryn and her father threaten to break that precarious isolation. To make matters worse, the mind-control device seems to be tightening its hold over Ernst, the Darkovans have their own agenda, and Bryn's newly awakened psychic powers just might turn out to be lethal. Can Bryn convince Darkover's telepaths to help, when they are deeply suspicious of Terrans and would rather remain forgotten? What are these strange new powers she's developing? And can she restore Ernst's mind before the Alliance enforcers track them down?
(Jack Gaughan’s cover for the 1972 edition) 3/5 (Average) Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999), most famous for her Arthurian fantasy novel Mists of Avalon (1983) from late in her career, publis…
About To Save a World (Darkover Omnibus #7) 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….
Darkover Landfall Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover Landfall - 1972 Publisher: DAW Books, Inc. This edition: 15th printing (first printing, December 1972) Cover Art by George Barr Border Art by Richard Hescox For a review of Darkover Landfall, please click here. Snows of Darkover, Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Snows of Darkover Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley Cover Art: Tim White Publisher: Daw, 1994 The Ages of Chaos, Darkover Omnibus (Stormqueen and Hawkmistress) by Marion Zimmer Bradley photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Stormqueen & Hawkmistress (Darkover Omnibus) Marion Zimmer Bradley Cover Art: Romas Brandt Kukalis Heritage and Exile, Darkover Omnibus (The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile) by Marion Zimmer Bradley photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Fall of Atlantis - (1983) Publisher: Baen First Printing: 1987 Tenth Printing 2007 Originally published (in parts) as "Web of Light" and "Web of Darkness" Cover Art: Darrell K. Sweet Dark Satanic by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith A TOR Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., New York Cover Art by Maren (Mariano Pérez Clemente) First edition: September 1988 The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith
Darkover Landfall Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Marion Zimmer Bradley: Darkover Landfall - 1972 Publisher: DAW Books, Inc. This edition: 15th printing (first printing, December 1972) Cover Art by George Barr Border Art by Richard Hescox For a review of Darkover Landfall, please click here. Snows of Darkover, Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Snows of Darkover Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley Cover Art: Tim White Publisher: Daw, 1994 The Ages of Chaos, Darkover Omnibus (Stormqueen and Hawkmistress) by Marion Zimmer Bradley photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Stormqueen & Hawkmistress (Darkover Omnibus) Marion Zimmer Bradley Cover Art: Romas Brandt Kukalis Heritage and Exile, Darkover Omnibus (The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile) by Marion Zimmer Bradley photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Fall of Atlantis - (1983) Publisher: Baen First Printing: 1987 Tenth Printing 2007 Originally published (in parts) as "Web of Light" and "Web of Darkness" Cover Art: Darrell K. Sweet Dark Satanic by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith A TOR Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., New York Cover Art by Maren (Mariano Pérez Clemente) First edition: September 1988 The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley, photo courtesy of Clarice Asquith
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"…
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