Book description
Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as
semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders.
Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored and many of its peoples
seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr there was an attraction he
could not evade. Darkover drew him - and when his mapping p[lane crashed
in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him. Until the planet's
magic asserted itself - and his destiny began to unfold along lines
predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science
could never acknowledge. 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.
