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430:, where a group of humans have been stranded and have developed their own unique culture and society. The books focus on the conflicts between the human settlers and the native population of Darkover, as well as the struggles of the various factions on the planet. The series is known for its complex world-building and exploration of themes such as gender, sexuality, and mental illness. Occasionally, Bradley collaborated with other authors, and she also edited and published Darkover stories by other authors in a series of anthologies. After Bradley's death, the series was continued, mostly by 1073:, Peter Haldane, a Terran, looks exactly like Rohana Ardais's son, except for the lack of a sixth finger. When attempting Haldane's rescue, disguised as a Renunciate on Rohana's advice, Magdalen Lorne meets Jaelle, who is a Renunciate and Rohana's niece. Jaelle is the one person who can expose Magda as a fake, because Magda claims to have the same oath-mother, which Jaelle knows is a lie. The remedy for masquerading as a Renunciate is to take the Renunciate's oath and make the lie come true. Rohana does not think this is all coincidence; Bradley suggests there is a higher power at work. 1163:. Adrienne Martine-Barnes was the uncredited co-author of these books. {The dedication of the ebook edition of Exile's Song say "For Adrienne Martine-Barnes, who created the character Margaret Alton, and worked on this book with me." Further, the copyright page of the ebook editions of "The Shadow Matrix" and "Traitor's Sun" both list Adrienne Martine-Barnes as co-copyright holder, along with Ms. Bradley.} . This broke Bradley's "ground rules". Bradley was at that time approaching the end of her life; she died in 1999, the same year that the third book of this "trilogy" was published. 866:
genetic diversity must be maintained. That meant that women must have as many children as possible, by as many men as possible, and every child that survives is needed. The experts believed that miscarriages and infant deaths would be greater on a planet unlike Earth, although of course, this idea is unproven. Bradley was particularly criticized for the scene in which Camilla Del Rey is forbidden to have an abortion, although she wants one, because the child is needed for the colony's survival.
1127:"Also", Bradley says, "... whenever consistency from book to book threatens to impair the artistic unity of any single book as a unit in itself, inter-book consistency will be relentlessly sacrificed... If I perpetuate anything in a Darkover book which I think could be altered for the better, I simply write it in the next book the way I think it ought to have been all along... I can't imagine why readers should be bothered by this kind of thing". 920:, Cholayna Ares, a dark-skinned Terran woman (actually from Alpha Centauri), is asked more than once if her dark skin is the result of a disease. There is no overt racism; Darkovans are simply curious because they have never seen anyone like her before. Bradley handles this issue with sensitivity and at times, wry and ironic humor, having Cholayna's Darkovan friends (who are Renunciates) become outraged at the question. 3238: 75: 2108: 34: 236: 177: 1225:, published in 1981, Lew Alton says, in the Prologue, "Travel among the stars has strange anomalies; the enormous interstellar distances play strange tricks with time... The elapsed time on Terra was something like three thousand years. Yet elapsed time on Darkover was somehow more like ten thousand..." This is but one example of inconsistency. 1197:
from one book to another is sometimes in conflict. Commenting on this problem, Bradley wrote, "I have fiercely resisted any attempt to impose absolute consistency, straightforward chronology, or anything but the most superficial order on the chronicles of Darkover". Furthermore, in the introduction to the "Between the Ages" section of
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called fantasy, because psychic powers appear to be "out and out magic". Other themes are feminism, sexism, the roles of women in society, the roles of men in society, racism, social division (the Comyn nobility and the non-Comyn "commoners"), xenophobia and the clash of cultures, sexual taboos, fate and the horrors of war.
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Callista, a virgin untouchable Keeper who has renounced all family ties for the sake of being a Keeper, becomes Andrew's wife. Damon's challenge of the Tower norms and the rules that Keepers must follow helps Callista free herself from her rigid training. In addition, Andrew Carr must accept Darkovan
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In that book, the Comyn (although called "the Seveners") were much the same as in later novels, with specific telepathic gifts. The seven families were the same, except the Altons were called the Leyniers and the Aillards were called the "Marceau of Valeron", a name that Bradley changed after hearing
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eras. It's occasionally the case that the official readers guide places a book in one era, but internal plot evidence places it in another (or both). Additionally, Bradley was not particularly sympathetic to her fans' need to organize the books into a consistent chronology, and the timeline evidence
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Several themes are explored by Bradley at length within the books of the series. Psychic powers, treated as a science, are a theme that places the books firmly within the category of science fiction, even in the books that do not have "Terrans", spaceships, or the "Galactic Empire". They can also be
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were a unisex race, sometimes male and sometimes female. She decided that the issue of sexuality was too difficult to handle in the current milieu of science fiction. She says, "I had no desire to write the kind of story which would have to be published as pornography". In "1970 or so" she went to a
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breeding programs had been abandoned, and the many small principalities were beginning to consolidate into the seven domains that survived into Darkover's modern era. Bradley's innovation, the adoption of "The Compact", is a turning point in the development of Darkover's social order. The Compact,
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The "hope" (Bradley's hope, or the hope of the books) is that the opposites will merge and grow. In other books, Bradley creates more characters capable of crossing the gap between cultures, some of whom have mixed Terran-Darkovan parentage, or were removed from Darkover at a young age (Jeff Kerwin
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with the ones in the second enables the reader to "understand what lies behind some of Bradley's limitations as a writer". Neither society is presented as a utopia, Bradley seems confused about the value of each, and she "is unable to make up her mind whether it is desirable for Terran influence to
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First, these two opposing cultures prove to have more in common than one suspects at first. Second, the contact between them brings about growth or a maturing process in each of them. Leith expresses the meaning of this cultural clash as "to grow or to mature ultimately means to accept the element
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The notion of women as "brood mares" (and similar expressions) pervades the novels. Women have few rights, even at the time that the colony is found by the Terran Empire some thousands of years later, because they are still perceived as the bearers of children. The Comyn women are supposed to have
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stirred up a furor because some outraged feminists objected to the stand I took in the book, that the survival of the human race on Darkover could, and should, be allowed to supersede the personal convenience of any single woman in the group. I have debated this subject ad nauseam in the fanzines,
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interaction work. Don Wollheim reluctantly told her to go ahead, although he demanded that she use no profanity (which was not her intention anyway), and she demanded in return that he would not change it without consulting her. Bradley claims that the scene, which "shocked some people and pleased
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Leith says that the opposition of cultures has an "impressive simplicity". The Terrans are technologically advanced, liberal and imperialist. Darkover is non-technological (as far as the Terrans know) and feudal. The rational, scientific, and utilitarian Terran society, aimed at efficiency and
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In the fictional Darkover world, the Renunciates may be the author's reaction to this sexism. The Renunciates call themselves by that name because they renounce all loyalty to their clan or family and swear never to have a child because a man wants one. Bradley's first novel in the Renunciates
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because of the way the women of the incipient colony were treated. When the colonists realized that their spaceship would never fly again, the scientists said that for any colony to survive with a founding population of only a few hundred and no real hope of immigration, the greatest amount of
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Bradley was unable to sell "The King and the Sword", even after she cut it down to "500 manuscript pages" and "located the whole thing on an imaginary planet with a red sun" in a "Galactic Empire". However, she kept writing and eventually sold "a shameless pastiche of a Kuttner story",
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suggest that at least 2000 years have passed between the founding of the colony and Earth's recontact. The last sentence of "Darkover Landfall" states, "But Earth knew nothing of them for 2,000 years", but as Lew Alton says (above) the time on Darkover was perhaps 10,000 years.
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and some other stories that dealt with the concept. She says: "So that a deeply repressed Terran Medic, Jay Allison, discovered himself in the personality of his repressed alternate who calls himself Jason". She placed the story on the planet she had created for
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Bradley says: "So these are the ground rules for the Darkover books, series or not; every one is complete in itself, and I do not assume that the reader has read, or will ever read, any other book in the series". As an example of what she avoids, Bradley cites
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These contrary elements, as indicated, place Terra to Darkover in a relation of the same type as maleness to femaleness. While there are "cross-overs in the fictions between the two columns", the general linking of Terra with the items in the first column and
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books, "where at the very end of the book the heroine ... was stolen away and popped into some kind of giant wheel with cubicles which moved at a fixed rate" and "John Carter and his sidekick were left staring at the giant wheel until the next book".
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abilities are housed and trained. All of these dominate political and social life. However these developments are accompanied by a period of nearly constant civil war, in which the Darkovans seem determined to exterminate themselves. Walter Breen's
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Bradley noted that most of the fan fiction she received was inspired by the Renunciates, that she had met individuals who had taken Renunciate-style names or were attempting to live in women's communes inspired by the Renunciate guildhouses.
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children at least until they produce a male heir; the exception to this is in the Aillard Domain, where the head of the Domain runs in the female line. Most males who are not Comyn have similar ideas about the need for a male heir.
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and I absolutely refuse to debate it again, but to those who refuse to accept the tenet that "Biology is Destiny", I have begun to ask them to show me a vegetarian lion or tiger before they debate the issue further".
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others", was the first time the issue of homosexuality (not to mention sex-changing) had been dealt with directly in science fiction, and says, "I managed to become something like science fiction's token homosexual!"
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Coker, Catherine. 2011. "The Contraband Incident: The Strange Case of Marion Zimmer Bradley". Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 6. doi:10.3983/twc.2011.0236. Texas A & M University, College Station, TX,
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Racism as a concept is unknown on Darkover, because there are no races. All Darkovans are fair-skinned and have blue or grey eyes, except a few: for example, Marguerida Alton, who is the granddaughter of a
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Leith's opinion is that Darkover is presented as weak compared to the Terran Empire. Darkover is the society that changes in response to Terran pressure, and it slowly but surely becomes less Darkovan.
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Bradley herself recommended that the books be read in the order in which they were written, rather than the Darkovan chronological order, as her writing style changed considerably over her career.
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Bradley is silent about the developments that followed the first generation of the colony, and does not make clear how many years intervene between the founding and the Ages of Chaos. The novels
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According to Linda Leith, the opposition between the Terran and Darkovan civilizations is a theme of "nearly all" Darkover fiction. This opposition has the following pairs of contrary elements:
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Bradley's books constantly refer back to the Ages of Chaos, but few books are actually set in this era. In this era, the descendants of the original colonists have organized themselves into a
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Bradley often implies that fate is at work when a character uses the Darkovan proverb, "The world will go as it will, not as you or I will have it", which appears in nearly all the
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series. She mentions a fellow novelist who has a grand scheme worked out for 2000 years into the future, and every book must fit into the scheme. She thinks that is "horrible".
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According to Deborah J. Ross, co-writer with Marion Zimmer Bradley on several Darkover novels and editor of related anthologies, the proposed series has been scrapped.
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promulgated by the recurring historical character Varzil the Good, bans all weapons that can be used without bringing the user into equal danger, effectively banning
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weapons, but allowing swords and knives. The Hundred Kingdoms may be read as commentary on the use of weapons of mass destruction in Earth's own endless conflicts.
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legally unpublishable. The anthologies are now out of print owing to the publisher's concerns regarding the ownership of the copyrights of the individual stories.
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series, which led her to believe that it was soon to be resolved when she was reading it, but then it wasn't. Another example is the cliffhanger ending of one of
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This theme overlaps with "Clash of Cultures" because some Darkovans express a dislike for Terrans without giving a reason other than they have "different ways".
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Leith, Linda. 1980. Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover. Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Science Fiction on Women, Science Fiction by Women. Online at
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there is a brief mention, or appeal, to the theme of fate. In later books, both Darkovan and not Darkovan, Bradley explores her ideas in greater depth. In
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Although the books written between 1958 and 1995 were intended to be stand-alone stories in accord with Bradley's "ground rules", with the publication of
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was published as a bonus piece in an Ace Double feature published in April 1980. The copyright page includes the works and copyright dates as follows:
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At the end of the 21st century, Earth sends colony ships out to the stars. One of these ships becomes disabled and crash-lands on Darkover, the fourth
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into her books and stories, often using them differently, e. g. the name of a city might become the name of a person. Chambers borrowed some terms in
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indicates that the Ages of Chaos period begins about a thousand years after the colonization of the planet and lasts a full thousand years.
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According to Nasrullah Mambrol, "though Bradley did not call herself a feminist, she was both criticized and applauded by those who have".
742:. This novel chronicled "the attempts of this lost and alien race to interbreed with humans." She says it was not dissimilar to a novel by 199: 2642: 829:, Don Wollheim was more willing to publish material that would have been considered controversial before. In particular, Bradley mentions 3166: 2787: 2681: 2010: 2518:
2000 years: Leith, Linda, "Marion Zimmer Bradley and Darkover", Science-Fiction Studies, Volume 7 No. 1 (1980), pg 28, DePaw University
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In addition to novels, Bradley edited and published twelve short story anthologies in collaboration with other authors, known as the
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Marion Zimmer Bradley (1980), "A Darkover Retrospective", The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, San Francisco. Online at
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and "Theodore Sturgeon, who first explored the questions which, directly or indirectly, underlie almost everything I have written".
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became more like Tolkien's elves, but Bradley conceived of them as ambiguously sexed. She says this idea may have derived from
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As noted above, some sources, e.g. Goodreads, say that Adrienne Martine-Barnes was the sole author of the latter three books.
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solar system. Unable to repair their ship and equally unable to make contact with Earth, the survivors establish a colony.
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Mambrol, Nasrullah. May 11, 2018. "Analysis of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Novels". Literary Theory and Criticism, online at
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In her essay (perhaps a transcribed interview) called "A Darkover Retrospective", Bradley mentions reading the works of
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and she did not intend to. McCaffrey gave Bradley her own copy of that book, and Bradley read it and was "spellbound".
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fan story as the origin of the Sisterhood of the Sword, and described the Priesthood of Avarra as a counterforce.
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The stories in the anthologies stand apart from the novels and do not necessarily fit into the chronology above.
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had been called "The ol' world wrecker" because he destroyed planets, galaxies and even universes in his books.
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Walton, Jo. "Culture clash on the borders of genres: Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series". 2010. Online at
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https://www.tor.com/2010/02/24/culture-clash-on-the-borders-of-genres-marion-zimmer-bradleys-darkover-series/
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The Reference Library, pg. 169, Lester del Rey, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 1977, Vol. XCVII No. 3
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culture and the fact that his relationship with Damon must be a closer one than Terran culture would allow.
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for a complete chronological bibliography of Darkover books, anthologies and series by date of publication
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Bradley, on demand from publishers and fans, later created a backstory, amounting to an entire history of
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A number of other websites also make this claim, or claim that Martine-Barnes was the sole author,
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that has hitherto been missing, in short to reconcile the opposites in oneself". As an example, in
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Bradley says that the clash of cultures, Darkovan v. Terran, that she strengthened when rewriting
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Many of Bradley's books, and a large number of the short stories, are set at the tail end of the
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may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience
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books was announced in 2012, and was to be produced by Ilene Kahn Power and Elizabeth Stanley.
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This Darkover chronology uses the time period designations first provided by the author as "
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However, Bradley realized that she needed one fairly explicit sex scene to make the human-
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In the introduction to "The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda" by Bradley in the anthology
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therefore fall in their own category, which the publisher is calling Modern Darkover.
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series was ended, friends, fans and casual readers objected, "Oh, don't do that!"
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Bradley told McCaffrey that she was tired of science fiction and wanted to write
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practicality, placed on Darkover, which lacks these qualities, creates tension.
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https://literariness.org/2018/05/11/analysis-of-marion-zimmer-bradleys-novels/
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Eventually Darkover is rediscovered by the Terran Empire, which establishes a
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Goodreads, Books by Adrienne Martine-Barnes, Goodreads, Inc. 2019. Online at
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5000 years: Jason Allison refers to the city of Carthon as 5,000 years old.
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any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against
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This article is about the books and stories. For the fictional planet, see
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http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/236/191
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in earlier books, were women who had opted out of Darkover’s traditional
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for publication, but it was the version that had previously been called
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with the permission of the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust.
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The publication of the anthologies of Darkover was restarted in 2013.
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/314666.Adrienne_Martine_Barnes
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she decided she would not be "locked into" the immature concepts of
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Introduction: And Contrariwise, pgs 9-12, Marion Zimmer Bradley,
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and Elizabeth Waters, and a single story by Patricia Floss,
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Review of the "Darkover" series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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abilities are acquired through interbreeding with the
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as the merger between the Sisterhood of the Sword, a
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But every time Bradley said that the 810:series; a way to end it, like "tossing 1809:Books in the world of the Renunciates: 1412: 1189: 787:that you thought you couldn't write". 437:Commenting on the significance of the 298: 247:too many and overly lengthy quotations 1703:(1999 - with Adrienne Martine-Barnes) 1695:(1998 - with Adrienne Martine-Barnes) 890:. Critics of the earlier work called 426:. The series is set on the planet of 7: 2615:"Marion Zimmer Bradley Bibliography" 2479:"Marion Zimmer Bradley Bibliography" 2367:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239308 869:In Bradley's comment for the book: " 563:, who had revived a magazine called 97:adding citations to reliable sources 2159:(1976, Marion Zimmer Bradley), and 1315:Short stories describing this era: 790:Bradley then had the idea to write 738:, one of which she had included in 316:(1958), the first novel set in the 16:Science fiction-fantasy book series 1336:"A Gift of Love", Diana L. Paxon, 498:. Bradley adapted many names from 200:Knowledge (XXG)'s inclusion policy 14: 2127:, a board game based on the books 1393:(1978 - by Marion Zimmer Bradley) 1328:"The Forest", Cynthia McQuillin, 43:This article has multiple issues. 3237: 3236: 3167:Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover 2761:Unofficial Darkover encyclopedia 2106: 2011:Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover 935:, was a "theme of all the early 628:was a kind of replay of the old 234: 175: 73: 32: 2706:Andreeva, Nellie (5 May 2016). 749:Bradley then realized that the 686: 441:series, science fiction author 84:needs additional citations for 51:or discuss these issues on the 2203:The book Bradley describes is 394:Print (hardback and paperback) 1: 2656:Levine, Stuart (2012-02-14). 1416:, in a period she called the 758:) and discussed writing with 3118:The Other Side of the Mirror 2684:. 2015-09-14. 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Heinlein's 933:The Sword of Aldones 835:Thomas Burnett Swann 804:The Doomsday Machine 664:was nominated for a 662:The Sword of Aldones 652:The Sword of Aldones 620:, also published as 612:Seven from the Stars 605:The Sword of Aldones 571:The Sword of Aldones 557:Falcons of Narabedla 551:, whom she admired. 93:improve this article 3209:Masques of Darkover 3139:Domains of Darkover 3125:Red Sun of Darkover 2956:The Forbidden Tower 2942:The Shattered Chain 2903:The Fall of Neskaya 2645:. 14 February 2012. 2601:Domains of Darkover 2173:The Forbidden Tower 2060:Masques of Darkover 1979:Domains of Darkover 1963:Red Sun of Darkover 1901:Domains of Darkover 1886:Friends of Darkover 1865:The Shattered Chain 1845:The Shattered Chain 1825:The Shattered Chain 1816:The Shattered Chain 1749:(2022 - written by 1739:(2013 - written by 1729:(2007 - written by 1671:(2010 - written by 1554:The Forbidden Tower 1546:The Shattered Chain 1463:), Book One of the 1456:The Fall of Neskaya 1360:feudal-type society 1306:(2024), written by 1071:The Shattered Chain 1067:The Shattered Chain 1038:The Forbidden Tower 892:The Shattered Chain 884:The Shattered Chain 697:Bradley says that " 467:Red Sun of Darkover 407:is a collection of 301: 3202:Realms of Darkover 3160:Towers of Darkover 3153:Leroni of Darkover 3097:The Keeper's Price 3037:The World Wreckers 2766:2016-08-03 at the 2749:2015-09-06 at the 2451:The New York Times 2085:Proposed TV series 2078:Jewels of Darkover 2054:Realms of Darkover 2003:Towers of Darkover 1995:Leroni of Darkover 1931:The Keeper's Price 1774:gender-based roles 1660:The World Wreckers 1347:Leroni of Darkover 1331:The Keeper's Price 1323:The Keeper's Price 894:a feminist novel; 827:The World Wreckers 792:The World Wreckers 544:Skylark of Valeron 523:Robert W. 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