Darkover novels
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Darkover novels volume 1
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Darkover was experiencing a flare-up of trailmen's fever, a disease that would decimate the entire human population of Darkover, from the Comyn to the Terrans. The Medical Branch at Terran HQ had the start of a cure, but in order to finish it, they needed trailmen to come out of their mountain heights and donate blood. Only one man on Darkover stood any chance of persuading the trailmen to help, but he occupied the same body as the doctor capable...
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Darkover novels volume 2
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After Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and getting it was an even bigger problem.
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Darkover novels volume 3
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For Jeff Kerwin, Darkover meant home, the home he had left as a child, the home he had longed for through the many years. Yet, he was to be terribly disappointed when he finally returned. First he learned that there were not records of any kind of either his birth or childhood on Darkover. And then, after he renounced his Terran allegiance and joined the natives attempting to free Darkover from Earth's control, the Darkovans accused him of being a...
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Darkover novels volume 4
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DAW Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1993
Language
English
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A novel from the Darkover series, about a man on his first mission to the planet. What he encounters when he leaves the space station is to determine the fate of every Terran stranded there.
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Darkover novels volume 5
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A member of the Terran Spaceforce finds himself drawn into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges, away from the trade city into an ancient battle that is to shape the destiny of more than one world.
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Darkover novels volume 6
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1994, c1971
Language
English
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A classic novel in the bestselling Darkover series. For three quarters of a century, Darkover has resisted the Terran Empire's efforts in colonization and industrialization. But the leader of Planetary Investments Unlimited (known as Worldwreckers, Inc.) has decided to take on this assignment herself ... for long ago, she had called Darkover home.
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Darkover novels volume 7
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English
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Darkover, planet of wonder, world of mystery, has been a favorite of science fiction readers for many years. For it is a truly alien sphere--a world of strange intelligences, of brooding skies beneath a ruddy sun, and of powers unknown to Earth. In this novel, Marion Zimmer Bradley tells of the original coming of the Earthmen, of the days when Darkover knew not humanity. This is the full-bodied novel of what happened when a colonial starship crash-landed...
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The spell sword: a Darkover novel , Darkover novels volume 8
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Darkover novels volume 9
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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...
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Darkover novels volume 10
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The women of Darkover are treated like slaves, despite the fact that they alone can control the power of the matrix, but the Free Amazons provide a key to the future
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Darkover novels volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
1994, c1977
Language
English
Description
A Darkover series volume, by the author of The Mists of Avalon, presents four challengers to the planet's sacred traditions--ruling caste member Damon, his betrothed, Earthman Andrew, and Andrew's betrothed, a Keeper of the Sacred Tower.
12) Stormqueen!
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Darkover novels volume 12
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During the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their laran-gifted offspring to gain powerful talents, a baby was born to the lord of Aldaran. This child, born on a dark and thunder-filled night--, was possessed of a terrifying and uncontrolled talent: Dorilys, heiress to her father's domain, could unwittingly call forth lightning, even while still a fretful child. Fearful for his daughter's life and the safety...
13) Two to Conquer
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Darkover novels volume 13
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What forces would operate if there were two objects that were absolutely identical in form and substance? This problem has occupied both workers in magic and the scientists of physics and psychology. It is the pivot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel of Darkover during the final flaming days of the Ages of Chaos. This is the story of the era when the planet of the Bloody Sun was divided into a hundred warring kingdoms and civilization teetered on the...
14) Sharra's Exile
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Darkover novels volume 14
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After the Age of Chaos had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun, even the Sharra had been exiled, but now the Sharra had returned, embodied in the image of a chained woman wreathed in flames, an image which could change the history of Darkover forever.
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Hawkmistress! , Darkover novels volume 15
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16) Thendara House
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Darkover novels volume 16
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Jaelle has been raised in the harsh patriarchal environment of the Dry Towns. Her mother Mellora is a Comyn woman who has been kidnapped in order to breed laran-gifted offspring for her barbarian "husband." But when a desperate, pregnant Mellora dies in childbirth following a daring escape aided by a band of Renunciates, the still young Jaelle is adopted into the Guild, and becomes the Free Amazon Jaelle n'ha Mellora, a woman who has never known kindness...
17) City of sorcery
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Darkover novels volume 17
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
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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.
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Darkover novels volume 18
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
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A Darkover novel set in the age of the hundred kingdoms
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Darkover novels volume 19
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Leonie Hastur has a high degree of laran, the telepathic power of the Comyn caste, and wants to be Keeper of Arilinn Tower, which will give her as much power as her twin brother Lorill, Heir to Hastur. But she has a premonition that something strange and disturbing will come from the sky and change their world forever. She's correct.
Ysaye Barnett loves life on shipboard and would happily stay right there, with her beloved computers, forever. Her...
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Darkover novels volume 20
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English
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Haunted by fleeting, nightmarish memories of her childhood on Darkover, Margaret Alton flees her home with her uncommunicative, brooding father to take a job as assistant to musicologist Ivor Davidson, a career that takes her back to Darkover and a terrifying confrontation with the past.
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Darkover novels volume 21
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English
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After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift—forced rapport and compulsion—one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited Laran gifts of the telepathic Comyn—the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain,...
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Darkover novels volume 22
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English
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Traitor's Sun continues the epic saga of Darkover, the award-winning series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Her most brilliant and popular creation, the Darkover books take readers to a planet torn by rebellion—and struggling for freedom...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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The Fall of Neskaya, Book One of the Clingfire Trilogy, marks the legendary author's final return to Darkover before her death. Set in the tumultuous era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a terrible time of strife and war, this unique fantasy world is divided into a mutlitude of small belligerent domains vying for power and land. One ambitious and corrupt tyrant will stop at nothing to control Darkover-even wield the terrifying weapons of the matrix....
24) Zandru's Forge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, a legendary friendship is forged between king and keeper which will lead to a new destiny for Darkover.
25) A flame in Hali
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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King Carolin and Varzil Ridenow, a Keeper, join forces to bring peace to Darkover, but hiding in the shadows of death of these two courageous men.
26) The Alton gift
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English
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Lew Alton's daughter Marguerida, a psychic, must decipher visions of impending doom, while her son searches for his place in a world of shifting loyalties, and the rulers of Darkover face a new threat--an ancient enemy that has risen again.
27) Hastur Lord
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Darkover novels volume 27
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English
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A gripping fantasy novel set in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover universe.
Regis Hastur was the heir to the most powerful domain on Darkover. When his grandfather died, he would inherit the title Hastur of Hastur, Regent of Darkover—king in everything but name. But ironically, this mantle was the last thing Regis had ever wanted. For he dreamed of a different kind of life—a life with the freedom to live and love like...
Regis Hastur was the heir to the most powerful domain on Darkover. When his grandfather died, he would inherit the title Hastur of Hastur, Regent of Darkover—king in everything but name. But ironically, this mantle was the last thing Regis had ever wanted. For he dreamed of a different kind of life—a life with the freedom to live and love like...
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Darkover novels volume 28
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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After an interstellar civil war, heir to the throne Gareth Elhalyn takes on a secret mission to stop the seedy population of Darkover from arming the Dry Towners with forbidden weapons
29) Thunderlord
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Darkover novels volume 29
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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The saga of two kingdoms, divided by bitter history and present-day suspicions, one armed with devastating power and the other determined to overcome it, no matter what the price. Can love and resourcefulness overcome even the overwhelming power of a Thunderlord? A follow-up to The Ages of Chaos omnibus, Thunderlord is a brand-new novel of the genre-bending Darkover universe, expanded by Marion Zimmer Bradley's collaborator Deborah J. Ross.