Darkover — by Marion Zimmer Bradley

• 1962

Lew Alton had always walked between two worlds -- his mother was Terran, his father Darkovan -- and he had never been accepted by either. Yet Alton alone could fully understand both worlds, and the mystic forces gathering to engulf them. That was wh...

• 1964

OUTCAST ON TWO WORLDS Jeff Kerwin had spent his early years in the Spacemen's Orphanage in the Terran Trade City on Darkover. Yet he'd never felt he'd belonged there for he was haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran city, a world h...

• 1965

A TERRAN-DARKOVAN ALLIANCE Although the natives of Darkover are the descendants of a long-lost Terran colony ship, they distrust the Terran spacers who have recently taken up residence on their planet. Many feel that these strangers from space hav...

• 1970

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 becom...

• 1971

PLANETARY INVESTMENTS UNLIMITED --that was its official name. But unofficially it was known 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 f...

• Dec-1972

Here is the tale of the arrival of humans on the mysterious, uncharted world of Darkover, the story of what happened when a Terran colony ship crashlanded on Darkover, and colonists and crew were divided between those who sought to repair the starshi...

• Sep-1974

Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored... and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew ...

• Aug-1975

THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR, longest and most intricate of the Darkover books, is a brilliant epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of forgotten peoples. This is the novel...

• Apr-1976

The major theme of THE SHATTEREDCHAIN concerns the role of women. 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 chattel -- indeed in some barbaric p...

• Sep-1977

This is the novel of four who defied the powers of the matrix guardians--fanatics who protected those powers so that the planet of the ruddy sun might never fall beneath the influence of materialistic Terrans. The four who found themselves fused i...

• Jun-1978

THE MATRIC WARS The great epic of the world beneath the Bloody Sun known as Darkover did not begin with the coming of the Terrans. It began far earlier, during the dark days of the civilization that came to be known as the Ages of Chaos. For in...

• Feb-1980

The lore of the planet of the Bloody Sun, Darkover, with its human and semi-human peoples, its science of mental powers, its loves and hates, its feuds and favors--all have grown into one of the greater classics of the imagination, comparable only to...

• Jun-1980

What forces would operate if there were two objects that were absolutely identical in form and substance? This problem has occupied both workers in magic and the scientists of physics and psychology. It is the pivot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel o...

• Oct-1981

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...

• Apr-1982

Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun, is one of the great triumphs of the imagination. Its peoples, its sciences, human and non-human, have been brought to life and its legendry has the ring of authentic folklore comparable only to the depth and co...

• Sep-1983

To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...

• Mar-1984

• Oct-1984

Haunted by mysterious images of dark, hooded figures and the cawing of strange birds, and drawn by the memory of two lost comrades, Magdalen Lorne, chief Terran operative on Darkover must pursue her quest not only to the frozen ends of the physical w...

• Dec-1985

FROM THENDARA TO THE HELLERS AND BEYOND... Return with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover to the planet of the Bloody Sun, the world of Darkover, where powerful families gifted with rare mental powers of loran rule the land, where T...

• Feb-1987

WHEN THE COMYN RULES... Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun, at the time when Terra has rediscovered this long-lost colony ruled by families who wield their mind powers of laran for good or ill. Now, with Comyn power declining and the Terran inf...

• Nov-1987

RITES OF POWER Darkover, world of legend, where ancient power has awakened humans to their own hidden talents, where the changed humans of this planet of the Bloody Sun must face the challenge of recontact with Terra, of the native chieri, and of ...

• 1989

Now, after a five-year absence, Marion offers us the chance to return to Darkover at the time of The Hundred Kingdoms, an age of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflict into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. The Heirs of H...

• Mar-1990

FROM THE FOUNDING OF NESKAYA TOWER... to the origins of the Free Amazons... to a Terran innocently enmeshed in a Darkovan conspiracy of betrayal and murder, here are exciting new excursions into the six ages of Darkover. Join Marion Zimmer Bradl...

• Mar-1991

FROM GUILD HOUSE TO LORD'S COURT the Free Amazons ply their trade, serving as mercenaries wherever there is need, banding together in comradeship, setting themselves apart from the everyday rules of Darkovan society, earning their freedom with blade...

• Nov-1991

THE POWERS OF LARAN UNLEASHED Return once again to Darkover, the magnificent world of the Bloody Sun, with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the many writers devoted to expanding the Darkover universe as, in these all-new stories, they reveal legendry and...

• Jul-1993

WHEN FOUR MOONS RISE -- the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkovan, Terran, and even the native chieri must...

• Jul-1993

THE POWERS OF THE MIND Return to the magnificent world of the Bloody Sun in this exciting new, all-original anthology that explores one of the most fascinating facets of Darkover society -- The Towers. In these citadels, those gifted with laran-mind...

• Oct-1993

A COLLECTION OF DARKOVER STORIES WRITTEN BY MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY HERSELF! Return to Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun, with this collection written solely by the originator of this exotic world, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and including two entirely ...

• Apr-1994

Return to Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun ...Where an impassable wall of ice separates the domains of man from the frigid, snowy wastes beyond the High Hellers. ...Where, holed up in stone castles or cloistered in isolated towers, those gifted w...

• 1997

THE ACES OF CHAOS Margaret Alton, rightful heir to the Alton Domain, has been making a desperate effort to control her newfound laran powers and to understand the obscure, potent, and frightening nature of her unique shadow matrix. However Margare...

• 1998

THE POWER OF LARAN It has been fifteen years since Marguerida Alton returned to Darkover, discovered the terrifying powers of her special laran, and fell in love with Mikhail Lanart-Hastur, heir designate to the regency of Darkover. With the prope...