Book description
Austere Dr Allison was a surgeon specialising in the parasitology of
the colony planet, Darkover. Antiseptic hospital walls were the limits
of his world, and the virgin ranges of the planet and the human clashes
of the Terran and Darkovan were abhorrent to him.
Headstrong, impulsive Jason, raised by the semi-human aboriginals,
loved Darkover as his only known home. Its forests, its mountains, its
varied peoples were his own, and he chafed for freedom from the confines
of the Terran trade city.
Now an epidemic ravaged the planet, destroying Terran and Darkovan
alike. The cure lay somewhere in those mountains, known o the natives as
The Wall Around the World. And the doctor and the adventurer had to
cooperate to find that cure.
But it was impossible for them to cooperate. For they shared only one
body between them . . . Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930 - 1999)
Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, in 1930, and
married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She received a B. A. from Hardin
Simmons University, Texas, and did post-graduate work at the University
of California, Berkeley, during which time she helped found the Society
for Creative Anachronism. She sold her first story in 1952 and was a
writer of note for over four decades. Bradley is best known for two
signature series: the 'Darkover' science fantasy series and her
Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon
and its sequels. She also edited anthologies for 14 years and published
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
, which ran for 50 quarterly issues between 1988 and the end of 2000.
Marion Zimmer Bradley died in Berkeley, California, on September 25,
1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.
