Book description
The Age of Chaos had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the
Bloody Sun. Even the most dangerous Matrix on all Darkover, the
legendary Sharra, had been exiled to the far off Terran Empire. But now
the Sharra was back, embodied in the image of a chained woman wreathed
in flames - an image that could change the history of Darkover forever.
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.
