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What is the plot of the darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley?
I want to know what the general plot of the series is. I have been trying to find a plot or a summary or soemthing but i cant find anything
The Darkover series, much like Anne McCaffery’s Pern or Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar, is a series united by the setting over a long, long time rather than one plot about a certain group of characters.
To sum up:
-Humans land on alien planet, aka Darkover, and develop a variety of psychic powers. Society ends up stuck in a rather feudalistic vein, but hey, cool magic powers for the win!
-War of Chaos. When you intentionally breed for laran (magic psychic powers) and develop fantasy-grade nukes, your neighbors are doing the same, and you throw some Free Amazons into the mix… the results can be volatile. And kinda awesome.
-Second contact. Sure, Darkover society has come to peace, more or less, but citizens from other Terran colonies have finally rediscovered them and are curious as to the whole backwater civilization with previously mentioned laran. Oh, and the rest of civilization still has a good grasp on the whole spaceships and lasers thing. This makes finding one’s place in the bigger universe a very delicate matter.
If you’re a fan of sweeping sci-fi/fantasy, you’ll probably enjoy these. Most of the omnibuses have summaries of the overall timeline, as well.
Kim Zimmer/Bradley Cole Red Carpet Interview – June 20, 2008
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The Golden Age of Science Fiction: An Anthology of 50 Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) $1.99 This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories by more than forty authors. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1950s.Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Will… |
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The Mists of Avalon $18.00 Even readers who don’t normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon’s Camelot politics and intrigue ta… |
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