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In the fantasy kingdom of Ruwenda, the ruler appoints as her successor, Princess Mikayla. But Mikayla is not interested, she is in love with a young man. The ruler tries to break up the relationship with magic, but the couple keeps in touch by telepathy. A tale of youth, age, love and duty. By the author of The Mists of Avalon.
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While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.
3) Stormqueen
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Darkover volume 2
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English
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The great epic of Darkover did not begin with the Terrans' arrival. For in those years, the power of the matrix was first learned--and misused in a power struggle that could have made Darkover a duplicate of Terra.
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Darkover volume 10
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English
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Leonie Hastur, headstrong and lovely daughter of the Hastur Clan, most powerful of all the telepathic families who rule Darkover, is being escorted by her twin brother Lorill to Dalreuth Tower for training in the use of her psychic powers. Although this is the event she has long dreamed offor her laran is so strong that she has been able to use it without benefit of training or the need of a matrix crystaland she yearns for the power...
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Darkover volume 18
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To the faithful followers of the chronicles of Darkover, whose greatest delight seems to be discovering even the most minute inconsistencies from book to book: This book tells a story which a great many of the friends of Darkover have asked me to tell - the story of the early life of Regis Hastur, and of the Sharra uprising, and of Lew Alton's first encounter with Marjorie Scott and the man who called himself Kadarin. The faithful followers mentioned...
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Darkover volume 21
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English
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The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Ages of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun. The Sharra had been exiled off-planet among the far stars of the Terran Empire in the custody of Lew Alton ... until he found himself called back to his homeworld to contest his rights. But once...
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Darkover volume 1
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Daw
Pub. Date
c1972.
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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 crashlanded...
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Daw
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c1987.
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English
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Spanning generations of Darkover history, this collection of stories journeys into the heart of Darkover power, from the ancient chieri, to the alliance of Ariada Aillard, to Regis Hastur's struggle to bridge the gap between Terrans and the people of Darkover.--Goodreads.com
11) Lady of Avalon
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A multi-generation story of three priestesses in legendary Britain. Caillean veils the land in everlasting mist to protect it from enemies, Teleri tries to save it by marriage to a Roman general, and Viviane must safeguard the Grail in preparation for the king to come. Adventure, magic, romance.
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Darkover volume 8
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Daw
Pub. Date
1989.
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English
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Darkoverplanet of the Bloody Sun, world of legend and mystery, the long-lost Terran colony where an ancient power has awakened humans to their own hidden talents of laran, that special magic through which those gifted enough can communicate directly mind to mind, call up fire, even link their thoughts to control bird and beast. Set in the age of The Hundred Kingdoms, The Heirs of Hammerfell takes place in a time of war and strife when Darkover...
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Morrow
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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When the city state of Merina is conquered by an emperor, its ruling women go underground to continue the struggle. The dowager queen, Adele, disappears into a temple, the ruling queen, Lydana, becomes a peddler of beads, and Shehyra, heir to the throne, joins the gypsies. A tale of feminine deception.
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Clingfire trilogy volume 1
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DAW
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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At a time when Darkover is split into warring kingdoms, Corin Leynier, on the cusp of developing his laran powers, becomes a pawn in a plot to bring the entire world under the rule of one king. Sequel Zandru's Forge.
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Darkover volume 22
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Ace
Pub. Date
c1971.
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English
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Planetary Investments Unlimited--that was its official name. But unofficially it was knows as Worldwreckers, Inc.. For a fee, its agents would infiltrate any world unwilling to give up its independence, and do enough damage so the natives would be forced to allow Terran investors to step in and salvage their planet. And now, once again, its agents were at work. In the 78 years since Cottman IV, called Darkover by its natives, was rediscovered by the...
16) The bloody sun
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Darkover volume 18
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Severn House
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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To Terran Jeff Kerwin the distant planet he remembered only as a childhood dream was home. But when years of planning finally brought him back to Darkover, ha found that there was no peace for him there--not for someone with both the red hair of a Com'yn lord and the bastard strains of Terrani in his blood; not for someone who carried a Darkovan matrix jewel without knowing where it came from; not for someone who managed to win the trust of the sacred...
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Darkover volume 17
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Ace
Pub. Date
c1970.
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English
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Turning under a blood-red sun, Darkover had always been a mystery to the Terrans. Its most puzzling riddles lay in the incredibly high mountains known as the Hellers. These jagged and almost impassable peaks sheltered races and enigmas that had become legend in the outside world--the howling inhuman Ya-men, the deadly Ghost Wind, the fiefs of barbaric brigand chieftains, decaying eldritch Dry-Towns...and the eerie forces that were worshiped as gods....
18) The Alton gift
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DAW
Pub. Date
c2007.
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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.
19) Witchlight
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[Shadow's gate series] volume 2
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Tor
Pub. Date
c1996.
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English
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Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of the most beloved and praised fantasy storytellers of our time, has once again written a compelling and powerful novel with larger-than-life characters. Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tissue-thin. She seem to be possessed--objects shatter when she passes, the corpses of animal appear on her doorstep. And she has the terrible feeling that something horrible happened in her empty past--results...
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Baen
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantasy about that ancient and legendary realm. On one side stand the Priests of the White Robe, guardians of powerful natural forces which could threaten the world if misused. Ranged against them are the Black...
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