Book description
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.
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.
