The Winds of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Winds of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The Winds of Darkover

Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Narrator: Pete Bradbury

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2018


Synopsis

When a bandit gang seizes High Windward, holding the Storn family hostage, the laran powers of the oldest son Loran are the family’s only hope. Reaching out with those powers, he finds a young Terran, Dan Barron, and “overshadows” his mind, sending him on a desperate rescue mission to Aldaran Castle. But the “help” that the powerful Aldaran family offers may be far more dangerous than any bandit. For what they offer is use of the terrible Sharra Matrix—dreaded weapon of the Ages of Chaos. 

About Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) wrote The Mists of Avalon, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, and The Firebrand, as well as the immensely popular Darkover series and numerous other science fiction and fantasy works. In 2000, she was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.


Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on September 12, 2024

communications expert Dan Barron, a Terran stationed on wintry Darkover, is given a punishment-assignment to teach lenscrafting to the tech-phobic Darkovans, after a temporary telepathic takeover targeting Dan causes a near-crash at the spaceport. adventures ensue, including increasing mental incurs......more

Goodreads review by Ken on April 04, 2008

Maybe reading the Darkover books in order of publication wasn't such a hot idea, after all. I'm now on the fifth one, and I'm not sure that I want to go much further. The Winds of Darkover is a clunky, sloppily edited story that lurches along to an improbable ending. So why not just quit reading Dark......more

Goodreads review by Saturn on March 21, 2021

Con questo volume si conclude l'era dei Comyn di Darkover e in effetti il libro ha tutto il sapore delle storie che segnano un passaggio fra un'epoca e l'altra all'interno di una saga. Il che mi stupisce tantissimo considerando che invece è il 5° in ordine di pubblicazione... L'autrice ha davvero tu......more

Goodreads review by Chuck on March 22, 2009

The thing I've always appreciated about Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series is that it works as both scine fiction and fantasy; not many authors can pull that off. I first read the darkover series about twenty five years ago or so, when I bought or was given an omnibus of five or so novels calle......more

Goodreads review by Thomasin on September 23, 2023

2.5 stars. Not my favorite Darkover novel. Storn and his sister and Barron. (And the other sister and brother, but no need to discuss them, I guess?) I understand that each book within the series may be read on its own, but I benefited greatly from having previously read the Shattered Chain (as part......more