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Domains of Darkover
Join Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover as they reveal previously unknown legends and lore about one of the most fascinating worlds in the annals of science fiction. "Bradley's Darkover series grows richer by the book."--Science Fiction Review.
Introduction: And Contrariwise by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad by Deborah J. Ross
Object Lesson by Mercedes Lackey
Beginnings by Cynthia Drolet
Clingfire by Patricia Duffy Novak
Death in Thendara by Dorothy J. Heydt
Firetrap by Elisabeth Waters & Marion Zimmer Bradley
Friends by Judith Kobylecky
Manchild by L.D. Woeltjen
Just a Touch… by Lynne Armstrong-Jones
Mind-Eater by Joan Marie Verba
Mist by Meg MacDonald
Our Little Rabbit by Mary Frey
Gift from Ardais by Barbara Denz
Horse Race by Diann Patridge
Plague by Janet Rhodes
Tapestry by Micole Sudberg
To Serve Kihar by Judith Sampson
Introduction: And Contrariwise by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad by Deborah J. Ross
Object Lesson by Mercedes Lackey
Beginnings by Cynthia Drolet
Clingfire by Patricia Duffy Novak
Death in Thendara by Dorothy J. Heydt
Firetrap by Elisabeth Waters & Marion Zimmer Bradley
Friends by Judith Kobylecky
Manchild by L.D. Woeltjen
Just a Touch… by Lynne Armstrong-Jones
Mind-Eater by Joan Marie Verba
Mist by Meg MacDonald
Our Little Rabbit by Mary Frey
Gift from Ardais by Barbara Denz
Horse Race by Diann Patridge
Plague by Janet Rhodes
Tapestry by Micole Sudberg
To Serve Kihar by Judith Sampson
254 pages, Paperback
First published March 6, 1990
About the author
Marion Zimmer Bradley
752 books4,720 followersMarion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.
Bradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.
Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms.
Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by herself, but in her later years collaborated with other authors for publication; her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death.
Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture.
For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.
Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including male authors in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death in September of 1999.
Probably her most famous single novel is The Mists of Avalon. A retelling of the Camelot legend from the point of view of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, it grew into a series of books; like the Darkover series, the later novels are written with or by other authors and have continued to appear after Bradley's death.
Her reputation has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations of child sexual abuse by her daughter Moira Greyland, and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children.
(from Wikipedia)
Bradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.
Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms.
Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by herself, but in her later years collaborated with other authors for publication; her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death.
Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture.
For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.
Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including male authors in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death in September of 1999.
Probably her most famous single novel is The Mists of Avalon. A retelling of the Camelot legend from the point of view of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, it grew into a series of books; like the Darkover series, the later novels are written with or by other authors and have continued to appear after Bradley's death.
Her reputation has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations of child sexual abuse by her daughter Moira Greyland, and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children.
(from Wikipedia)
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March 3, 2015
I'm gratified that a lot of the stories in this collection come from earlier in Darkover's history. Like I mentioned in my review of Stormqueen!, the Ages of Chaos and the period between then and Landfall is my favorite period in Darkover's chronology, and there are very few books set there. I'm glad there are short stories in these collections that fill in the gaps.
Despite that, my favorite story in Domains of Darkover wasn't one of the earlier ones, it was "Death in Thendara," which features the Terran Donald and the Darkovan Keeper Marguerida, two recurring characters I remember from "Festival Night" in Four Moons of Darkover. There isn't really any single thing I can point to as the part that stood out. It was just well-written all around, without feeling rushed like so many of the stories in these short story collections seemed to. It also made me wonder how the Terrans can keep being skeptical about laran when they have to have video evidence of Keepers making people spontaneously combust.
"Clingfire" features a minor character from Stormqueen! that I just realized I hadn't mentioned in my review even though he stood out to me. Coryn, the Keeper of Hali Tower, who in Stormqueen! who opines on how laran weapon research is important because eventually the laranzu'yn will discover weapons that are so incredibly awful that no one will conceive of being able to use them, and war will end because the alternatives are so terrible. "Clingfire" expands on his obsession with laran weaponry and pits it against his love for the Monitor Arielle who used to work in his Circle, and you can probably guess how that turns out.
"Manchild" is ostensibly about a single Renunciate house where boys are allowed to stay past the age of majority in order to provide a safety valve for the other houses (and so they aren't taught misogyny by the greater Darkovan culture), but I mostly focused on the fact that they used a bow to hunt the marauding banshee. The Compact seemed to be so absolute that I had thought that all ranged weaponry of any kind was banned on Darkover, but reading this I realized that would make hunting nearly impossible, to say nothing of defending from predators. I'm not sure if my understanding is wrong, or if this story is wrong. The other books seem to imply it's a total ban, but then again, they mostly deal with the Comyn who aren't going to have to hunt. Though hunting is a huge pastime of the nobility on Earth, so do the Comyn not hunt? What do they do with their days post-Hastur uniting the Domains when they aren't killing each other all the time? I guess "Manchild" gets points for making me think about all this, but then it loses them for possible inconsistencies that led to these questions in the first place.
"Mind-Eater" gets called out by Bradley for being a rare Darkovan horror story, and it starts off pretty effectively with an isolated village and the villagers slamming doors in the protagonist's face and a crumbling castle filled with "ghosts" and so on. But Darkover lacks the actual ghosts of fantasy and the vicious aliens of sci fi, and I found the resolution to be far too easy for effective horror. The dread fades once the source of horror is revealed early on and then it's just a standard conflict between laranzu. Wasted potential.
"An Object Lesson" is satisfying to read even if the message is of ambiguous value. Two Renunicates are jumped in the Dry Towns and one of them is taken to be a sex slave, and their solution to this is to murder the lord, kill a bunch of people, and burn down the house. Not that a sex slaver doesn't deserve murder, but the story's message is basically the same one as the famous speech in A Few Good Men, all about how violence are necessary to preserve freedom. Of course, the way that's delivered it's a terrible message because it's the same logic that leads to "I fought for your free speech so shut up and stop criticizing me" and torture sites in American cities because we are Hard Men Making Hard Choices, do you want the bad guys to win, comsymp?
Violence is necessary to defend freedom, but that means we should subject its practitioners to more scrutiny, not less. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, not least directed toward those who claim they are why we are free. Of course, the story is being told to the initiates in the house, so it's not like the Renunciates are hiding the truth of their founding.
"Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad" is about a conditioned assassin and how the protagonist's brother was used by the assassin to accomplish his mission, causing the brother to break down and realize his rages are counterproductive...but the assassin was guilty of killing their father to motivate the rage, so I think the end message about blaming the rage and thinking through the consequences of your actions is misplaced. There's still a murderer around and justice was ignored because the protagonist needed to deliver a message. I wasn't a fan.
"Friends" mostly stood out for me because it roots the rift between Aldaran and the other Domains much, much further back in history, with Aldaran being a safe site for those who wanted to escape the Comyn's breeding program to flee. I liked this even though it's not hinted at anywhere else in the Darkover books I remember, but that might just be a consequence of there being fewer stories set early in Darkover's history as I mentioned.
I liked "The Plague" both because it's about sourdough, which is my favorite kind of bread, and because it deals with a laran-based understanding of germ theory. One of my favorite aspects of Darkover is that it's a sci fi setting with fantasy trappings, and Kirsten's understanding of the "tinylives" and her attempts to heal the plague victims and discovery of the source of the sickness bridges the gap nicely. Too often the stories in these collections seem to just treat laran as sorcery and "The Plague" stands out for firmly remaining in the bounds of Darkover's particular genre blend.
Huh. I had more to write about here than I thought, and I still haven't covered some of the stories. Overall, I like Domains of Darkover better than Four Moons of Darkover even thought the latter book had individual stories I liked more than any of the ones in here, so this one is better even if they both scored the same on a one-to-five scale. "Death in Thendara" is worth reading even if you read none of the other stories, and while writing this review I found it's available as a stand-alone kindle story on Amazon, so it's possible to do just that.
Despite that, my favorite story in Domains of Darkover wasn't one of the earlier ones, it was "Death in Thendara," which features the Terran Donald and the Darkovan Keeper Marguerida, two recurring characters I remember from "Festival Night" in Four Moons of Darkover. There isn't really any single thing I can point to as the part that stood out. It was just well-written all around, without feeling rushed like so many of the stories in these short story collections seemed to. It also made me wonder how the Terrans can keep being skeptical about laran when they have to have video evidence of Keepers making people spontaneously combust.
"Clingfire" features a minor character from Stormqueen! that I just realized I hadn't mentioned in my review even though he stood out to me. Coryn, the Keeper of Hali Tower, who in Stormqueen! who opines on how laran weapon research is important because eventually the laranzu'yn will discover weapons that are so incredibly awful that no one will conceive of being able to use them, and war will end because the alternatives are so terrible. "Clingfire" expands on his obsession with laran weaponry and pits it against his love for the Monitor Arielle who used to work in his Circle, and you can probably guess how that turns out.
"Manchild" is ostensibly about a single Renunciate house where boys are allowed to stay past the age of majority in order to provide a safety valve for the other houses (and so they aren't taught misogyny by the greater Darkovan culture), but I mostly focused on the fact that they used a bow to hunt the marauding banshee. The Compact seemed to be so absolute that I had thought that all ranged weaponry of any kind was banned on Darkover, but reading this I realized that would make hunting nearly impossible, to say nothing of defending from predators. I'm not sure if my understanding is wrong, or if this story is wrong. The other books seem to imply it's a total ban, but then again, they mostly deal with the Comyn who aren't going to have to hunt. Though hunting is a huge pastime of the nobility on Earth, so do the Comyn not hunt? What do they do with their days post-Hastur uniting the Domains when they aren't killing each other all the time? I guess "Manchild" gets points for making me think about all this, but then it loses them for possible inconsistencies that led to these questions in the first place.
"Mind-Eater" gets called out by Bradley for being a rare Darkovan horror story, and it starts off pretty effectively with an isolated village and the villagers slamming doors in the protagonist's face and a crumbling castle filled with "ghosts" and so on. But Darkover lacks the actual ghosts of fantasy and the vicious aliens of sci fi, and I found the resolution to be far too easy for effective horror. The dread fades once the source of horror is revealed early on and then it's just a standard conflict between laranzu. Wasted potential.
"An Object Lesson" is satisfying to read even if the message is of ambiguous value. Two Renunicates are jumped in the Dry Towns and one of them is taken to be a sex slave, and their solution to this is to murder the lord, kill a bunch of people, and burn down the house. Not that a sex slaver doesn't deserve murder, but the story's message is basically the same one as the famous speech in A Few Good Men, all about how violence are necessary to preserve freedom. Of course, the way that's delivered it's a terrible message because it's the same logic that leads to "I fought for your free speech so shut up and stop criticizing me" and torture sites in American cities because we are Hard Men Making Hard Choices, do you want the bad guys to win, comsymp?
Violence is necessary to defend freedom, but that means we should subject its practitioners to more scrutiny, not less. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, not least directed toward those who claim they are why we are free. Of course, the story is being told to the initiates in the house, so it's not like the Renunciates are hiding the truth of their founding.
"Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad" is about a conditioned assassin and how the protagonist's brother was used by the assassin to accomplish his mission, causing the brother to break down and realize his rages are counterproductive...but the assassin was guilty of killing their father to motivate the rage, so I think the end message about blaming the rage and thinking through the consequences of your actions is misplaced. There's still a murderer around and justice was ignored because the protagonist needed to deliver a message. I wasn't a fan.
"Friends" mostly stood out for me because it roots the rift between Aldaran and the other Domains much, much further back in history, with Aldaran being a safe site for those who wanted to escape the Comyn's breeding program to flee. I liked this even though it's not hinted at anywhere else in the Darkover books I remember, but that might just be a consequence of there being fewer stories set early in Darkover's history as I mentioned.
I liked "The Plague" both because it's about sourdough, which is my favorite kind of bread, and because it deals with a laran-based understanding of germ theory. One of my favorite aspects of Darkover is that it's a sci fi setting with fantasy trappings, and Kirsten's understanding of the "tinylives" and her attempts to heal the plague victims and discovery of the source of the sickness bridges the gap nicely. Too often the stories in these collections seem to just treat laran as sorcery and "The Plague" stands out for firmly remaining in the bounds of Darkover's particular genre blend.
Huh. I had more to write about here than I thought, and I still haven't covered some of the stories. Overall, I like Domains of Darkover better than Four Moons of Darkover even thought the latter book had individual stories I liked more than any of the ones in here, so this one is better even if they both scored the same on a one-to-five scale. "Death in Thendara" is worth reading even if you read none of the other stories, and while writing this review I found it's available as a stand-alone kindle story on Amazon, so it's possible to do just that.
February 25, 2018
It is great to get anthologies based in the Darkover world, but I like the novel length stories better.
December 22, 2023
A collection of short stories focused on individual Doms. Not much about Darkover & most references to laran is in reference to not having it. One of my least favorite Darkover books.
April 21, 2010
Marion Zimmer Bradley is famous for her Avalon books, but I'm a fan of her Darkover stories, set in an original world and a blend of science fiction and fantasy. This is one of a series of anthologies that basically are collection of "fan fiction" by other authors based on MZB's Darkover. I was impressed on reread of the first such book, The Keeper's Price. Enough I ranked it just below five stars, and was tempted to give it full marks. Not that I would argue it's deathless literature, but as a Darkover fan I loved it, and was surprised how memorable the various stories were even decades after I first read it--there were some I remembered just from the title, and no story I didn't completely enjoy.
The next four collections, The Sword of Chaos, Free Amazons of Darkover, Red Sun of Darkoer, and Four Moons of Darkover, though still enjoyable, didn't impress nearly me as much. The next, The Other Side of the Mirror, represented an uptick, but it was unusual in being a collection of novellas, not short stories, including one almost a novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I'm afraid I feel Domains of Darkover is back to routine. The first collection seemed mostly taken from a contest, and perhaps that pushed the quality up. So many in the contents page of the next four anthologies seemed the usual suspects, with the majority of stories included by authors who appeared in previous MZB anthologies. With this one, not only didn't I remember any of these stories from my read years before, it was hard to remember the stories I read early on by the time I finished rereading this book. And there were a few I out and out disliked. Not good. I did like Dorothy J. Heydt's "Death in Thendara" which featured recurring characters from her previous stories in Darkover anthologies. Similarly it was nice reading a new Hilary story from Marion Zimmer Bradley and Elizabeth Waters, "Firetrap." And it was interesting reading a fairly early story from an author who'd become a favorite, Mercedes Lackey. Otherwise, I did (rather mildly) enjoy most of the stories--but certainly wouldn't recommend this for someone not already a die hard Darkover fan.
The next four collections, The Sword of Chaos, Free Amazons of Darkover, Red Sun of Darkoer, and Four Moons of Darkover, though still enjoyable, didn't impress nearly me as much. The next, The Other Side of the Mirror, represented an uptick, but it was unusual in being a collection of novellas, not short stories, including one almost a novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I'm afraid I feel Domains of Darkover is back to routine. The first collection seemed mostly taken from a contest, and perhaps that pushed the quality up. So many in the contents page of the next four anthologies seemed the usual suspects, with the majority of stories included by authors who appeared in previous MZB anthologies. With this one, not only didn't I remember any of these stories from my read years before, it was hard to remember the stories I read early on by the time I finished rereading this book. And there were a few I out and out disliked. Not good. I did like Dorothy J. Heydt's "Death in Thendara" which featured recurring characters from her previous stories in Darkover anthologies. Similarly it was nice reading a new Hilary story from Marion Zimmer Bradley and Elizabeth Waters, "Firetrap." And it was interesting reading a fairly early story from an author who'd become a favorite, Mercedes Lackey. Otherwise, I did (rather mildly) enjoy most of the stories--but certainly wouldn't recommend this for someone not already a die hard Darkover fan.
March 1, 2015
Domains of Darkover (The Friends of Darkover Present)
contents:
Acurrhir todo: Nada Perdonad by Deborah J. Ross,
An Object Lesson by Mercedes Lackey
Beginnings by Cynthia Drolet,
Clingfire by Patricia Duffy Novak,
Death in Thendaara by Dorothy J. Heydt,
Firetrap by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Waters,
Friends by Judith Kobylecky,
Manchild by L. D. Woeltjen,
Just A Touch by Lynne Armstrong-Jones,
Mind-Eater by Joan Marie Verba,
Mists by Meg MacDoanald,
Our Little Rabbit by Mary K. Frey,
A Gift from Ardais by Barbara Denz,
The horse Race by Diann Partridge,
The Plaque by Janet R. Rhodes,
The Tapestry by Micole Sudburg,
To Serve Kihar by Judith Sampson
5*****
contents:
Acurrhir todo: Nada Perdonad by Deborah J. Ross,
An Object Lesson by Mercedes Lackey
Beginnings by Cynthia Drolet,
Clingfire by Patricia Duffy Novak,
Death in Thendaara by Dorothy J. Heydt,
Firetrap by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Elizabeth Waters,
Friends by Judith Kobylecky,
Manchild by L. D. Woeltjen,
Just A Touch by Lynne Armstrong-Jones,
Mind-Eater by Joan Marie Verba,
Mists by Meg MacDoanald,
Our Little Rabbit by Mary K. Frey,
A Gift from Ardais by Barbara Denz,
The horse Race by Diann Partridge,
The Plaque by Janet R. Rhodes,
The Tapestry by Micole Sudburg,
To Serve Kihar by Judith Sampson
5*****
October 28, 2008
Just a Touch... Armstrong-Jones, Lynne
The Gift from Ardais Denz, Barbara
Beginnings Drolet, Cynthia
Our Little Rabbit Frey, Mary K.
Death in Thendara Heydt, Dorothy J.
Friends Kolecky, Judith K.
An Object Lesson Lackey, Mercedes R.
Mists Mac Donald, Meg
Clingfire Novak, Patricia Duffy
The Horse Race Partridge, Diann S.
The Plague Rhodes, Janet R.
To Serve Kihar Sampson, Judith
The Tapestry Sudberg, Micole
Mind-eater Verba, Joan Marie
Firetrap Waters, Elisabeth & Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad Wheeler, Deborah J.
Manchild Woeltjen, Linda D.
With another cool cover by Richard Hescox
The Gift from Ardais Denz, Barbara
Beginnings Drolet, Cynthia
Our Little Rabbit Frey, Mary K.
Death in Thendara Heydt, Dorothy J.
Friends Kolecky, Judith K.
An Object Lesson Lackey, Mercedes R.
Mists Mac Donald, Meg
Clingfire Novak, Patricia Duffy
The Horse Race Partridge, Diann S.
The Plague Rhodes, Janet R.
To Serve Kihar Sampson, Judith
The Tapestry Sudberg, Micole
Mind-eater Verba, Joan Marie
Firetrap Waters, Elisabeth & Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad Wheeler, Deborah J.
Manchild Woeltjen, Linda D.
With another cool cover by Richard Hescox
January 20, 2016
This is a collection of short stories that were written by other folk about Darkover, that MZB selected for an anthology. I guess I'd forgotten how violent and vicious the setting is. The collection ranges over all of the various centuries of the novels, so you get a view of the various cultural settings. MZB provides a commentary for every story in the collection, with info mostly about the authors. I really need to go back to the start of the series! Right now, I'm wishing there was a glossary provided for the Darkover vocabulary sprinkled through the three books I've read lately. ( Kihar? )
July 6, 2017
Eu adoro esses contos de Darkover, principalmente as historias da Era do Chaos, e nesse livro tem algumas bem boas.
As minhas favoritas foram “The Tapestry”, que foi uma historinha bem estranha, mas que achei ótima, depois que entendi direito, e, “The Horse Race”, sobre corrida de cavalos e mulheres duronas!!
Death in Thendara também foi uma história diferente, um romance policial com investigação sobre um assassinato misterioso. Adorei o estilo meio Sherlock Holmes.
Quanto as outras, teve melhores e umas que eu perdi o tempo lendo, mas no geral deu para passar de ano.
As minhas favoritas foram “The Tapestry”, que foi uma historinha bem estranha, mas que achei ótima, depois que entendi direito, e, “The Horse Race”, sobre corrida de cavalos e mulheres duronas!!
Death in Thendara também foi uma história diferente, um romance policial com investigação sobre um assassinato misterioso. Adorei o estilo meio Sherlock Holmes.
Quanto as outras, teve melhores e umas que eu perdi o tempo lendo, mas no geral deu para passar de ano.
February 27, 2016
‘ACURRHIR TODO; NADA PERDONAD’:
(‘Remember Everything; Forget Nothing’)
A Tale of the Hundred Kingdoms
A Darkover short story of revenge in the name of honor and of childhood friends too.
(‘Remember Everything; Forget Nothing’)
A Tale of the Hundred Kingdoms
A Darkover short story of revenge in the name of honor and of childhood friends too.
August 25, 2011
Was pretty good for one of these anthologies, no stories from MZB herself, and quite a bit heavier on brutal themes than in others, at least as I recall.
January 31, 2019
Nice collection of stories. Loved the Durraman donkey story. I like stories that have some handle I can use to slot the story into the Darkover timeline.
January 4, 2021
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
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