Book description
Haunted by mysterious images of hooded figures, Magdalen Lorne, chief
Terran operative on Darkover, pursues a quest not only to the frozen
ends of the physical world but also to the perilous limits of the
spiritual world. And there she is tested by the evil sorcery of the Dark
Sisterhood. 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.
