Stars of Darkover (Darkover anthology Book 14)
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00KQNVB54 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 116 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Deborah J Ross is doing a great job at keeping the MZB books coming along Deborah J Ross is doing a great job at keeping the MZB books coming along. It is like finding an old friend one thought lost forever. Darkover is improving with each new story.. Long time in coming I enjoyed finally having some new Darkover material to read. The stories were all good reads. My only complaint is that several of them seemed to have endings that were too much of a 'fairy-tale-lived-happily-ever-after' feel; they were suspenseful up until the last page or too and then tied things up rather abruptly and TOO neatly.. Alvin C. Lustie said Good stories!. I enjoy the stories of Darkover and the various authors of these shore stories held the tradition of quality quite well. Short stories are tricky to write, and these folks write well.
After her first short story in 1983 in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s first volume of Sword & Sorceress, her short fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Star Wars: Tales From Jabba’s Palace, Realms of Fantasy, MZB’s Fantasy Magazine, and many other anthologies and magazines. Her most recent books include the Darkover novel The Children of Kings (with Marion Zimmer Bradley); Collaborators, an occupation-and-resistance story with a gender-fluid alien race (as Deborah Wheeler); and The Seven-Petaled Shield, an epic fantasy trilogy from DAW. She made her editorial debut in 2008 with Lace and Blade. Two of her short stories (“Mother Africa” in Asimov’s 1997 and “The Price of Silence” in F&SF 2009) were awarded Honorable Mention in Year’s Best SF. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. About the Author Deborah J. Ross writes an
Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. She sold her first short story to Marion in 1980 for The Keeper’s Price, the first Darkover anthology. Two of her short stories (“Mother Africa” in Asimov’s 1997 and “The Price of Silence” in F&SF 2009) were awarded Honorable Mention in Year’s Best SF. She made her editorial debut in 2008 with Lace and Bla
Darkover, a distant planet circling a red sun, was home to telepaths and rebels, lovers and rivals, nonhuman races both friendly and deadly, ancient traditions and even more ancient feuds, and psychic gifts of unimaginable power, channeled through starstone gems and capable of changing not only individual lives, but the entire world.Generations of fans have fallen in love with Darkover, and many of them have gone on to notable literary careers of their own. Return to the world of the Bloody SunOver fifty years ago, master story-teller Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced readers to a compelling new world. Macdonald, Rosemary Edghill and Rebecca Fox, Leslie Fish, Gabrielle Harbowy, Steven Harper, Shariann Lewitt, Vera Nazarian, Diana L. From the Ages of Chaos to re-contact with the Terrans, from the Dry Towns to t