Book description
Lew Alton was returning to Darkover - returning at the command of men
who had once been all too glad to see him leave. For Lew, a Darkovan on
his father's side, and a Terran on his mother's, had always walked
between two worlds, accused by each of belonging to the other, and
trusted by neither. Yet Lew alone had the power to understand both
worlds and to save them from each other's unknown forces. That was the
reason he had returned at last - armed with the legendary sword of the
Sharra matrix, whose destiny was to cross forces with the equally mystic
Sword of Aldones in one mighty battle that would decide Darkover's fate
. . . 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.
