Book description
Described as "Bradley's best novel" by Locus, The Heritage of
Hastur, longest and most intricate of the Darkover books, is a brilliant
epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between
the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of forgotten peoples.
This is the novel of the Hastur tradition and of the showdown between
those who would bargain away their world for the glories of star-borne
science and those who would preserve the special "matrix"
power that was at once the prize and the burden of ruddy-sunned
Darkover. 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.
