Book description
Sometime in the future, the human race realizes how much the population
is outgrowing the planet and decides to train people to go explore the
galaxy to look for other inhabitable planets. The trainees are chosen
for their intelligence at a very young age, then spend their entire
childhood learning a skill such as medicine, engineering, physics, etc.
When they reach adulthood, the best six of them are sent off to other
star systems to spend the rest of their lives searching for a place that
may be hospitable to humans.
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.
