Book description
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. 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.
