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The Forbidden Tower
''The Forbidden Tower'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her ''Darkover'' series. Originally published by DAW Books (No. 256) in 1977, it is the sequel to ''The Spell Sword'' and is followed by ''The Bloody Sun''. The major characters also appear in '' Thendara House'' and ''City of Sorcery''. This book is set approximately forty years after the events in the book ''Rediscovery''. The Hilary Castamir stories in the collection '' Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover'' precede the events in ''The Forbidden Tower'' by about ten years. Plot summary On the road to Armida, Damon Ridenow encounters Leonie Hastur, Keeper of Arilinn. Leonie tells him that she wishes to persuade Callista Lanart to return to Arilinn Tower and replace her as Keeper. She is aware that Callista wishes to marry the Terran, Andrew Carr, who rescued her from the Caves of Corresanti (as seen in ''The Spell Sword''). After they arrive, Leonie meets with Callista and unable to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Keeper's Price
''The Keeper's Price and Other Stories'' is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The stories are set in Bradley's world of ''Darkover''. The book was first published by DAW Books in February 1980. Many of the stories first appeared in the magazine ''Starstone''. Contents * Introduction: "A Word from the Creator of Darkover" by Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel ''The Mists of Avalon'' an ... Sources * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Keeper's Price, The Darkover books 1980 anthologies American anthologies Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley Books with cover art by Don Maitz DAW Books books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Marion Zimmer Bradley
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 American Novels
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Darkover Books
Darkover is the planet giving its name to the ''Darkover'' series of science fiction-fantasy novels and short stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley and others published since 1958. According to the novels, Darkover is the only habitable planet of seven orbiting a fictional red giant star called Cottman. The Cottman stellar system Bradley describes Cottman's Star as a red giant, around which seven planets orbit. Among these, CottmanIV, known to its inhabitants as Darkover, is the only habitable planet. The three inner planets and two outer planets are not habitable. CottmanV is an ice planet that while not toxic to humans, cannot naturally support a self-sustaining human population. Like Cottman V, Darkover is a planet stuck in a permanent ice age. Only one small equatorial strip of its single smallish continent is warm enough to support limited agriculture, fishing, and livestock. Similar in size to Earth, Darkover has a lower gravity due to its relative lack of metals; it also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Press
Gregg Press was founded about 1965 by Charles Gregg in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey to distribute in the United States the antiquarian reprints published in the UK by Gregg Press International. Gregg decided he wanted to publish scholarly reprints of his own and initially focused on reprinting classics of American literature in runs of 250 to 500 copies for the US academic library market. His first program, Americans in Fiction, included 70 out-of-copyright titles selected by American literature professor Clarence Gohdes. The series was sold as a set, but individual titles could be purchased separately. Charles Gregg sold Gregg Press to ITT Corp. in 1972, and the operation was moved to Boston, becoming a division of ITT's library reference publishing company, G. K. Hall & Co. James F. Koehlinger, General Manager of Gregg, moved to Boston with the company to oversee its transition for a year. Thomas T. Beeler was hired as editor of Gregg Press in Boston in June 1972. Beeler dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Award For Best Novel
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette, and novella categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction", and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The Hugo Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually by the World Science Fiction Society since 1953, except in 1954 and 1957. In addition, beginning in 1996, Retrospective Hugo Awards or "Retro-Hugos" have been available for works published 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro-Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. To date, Retro-Hugo awards have been given for novels for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954. Hugo Award nominees and winners ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Studies
''Science Fiction Studies'' (''SFS'') is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen. The journal is published three times per year at DePauw University. As the name implies, the journal publishes articles and book reviews on science fiction, but also occasionally on fantasy and horror when the topic also covers some aspect of science fiction as well. Known as one of the major academic publications of its type, ''Science Fiction Studies'' is considered the most "theoretical" of the academic journals that publish on science fiction. History ''SFS'' has had three different institutional homes during its lifetime. It was founded in 1973 at Indiana State University by the late English professor Dr. R. D. Mullen, where it remained for approximately five years. In 1978, it moved to McGill University and then to Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where it was supported by a Canadian government grant until 1991. ''SFS'' was brought back to Indiana to DePauw University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renunciates Of Darkover
''Renunciates of Darkover'' is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The stories are set in Bradley's world of ''Darkover''. The book was first published by DAW Books (No. 844) in March 1991. Contents * Introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley * "Strife" by Chel Avery * "Amazon Fragment" (from the first draft of '' Thendara House'') by Marion Zimmer Bradley * "Broken Vows" by Annette Rodriguez * "If Only Banshees Could See" by Janet R. Rhodes * "A Midsummer Night's Gift" by Deborah Wheeler * "The Honor of the Guild" by Joan Marie Verba * "A Butterfly Season" by Diana L. Paxson * "Misjudged Situations" by Kelly B. Jaggers * "Awakening" by Mary Fenoglio * "Carlina's Calling" by Patricia Duffy Novak * "A Beginning" by Judith Kobylecky * "Set a Thief" by Mercedes R. Lackey * "Shut-in" by Jean Lamb * "Danila's Song" by Vera Nazarian Vera Nazarian (born 1966 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an Armenian-Russian (by ethnicity) American writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alton Gift
''The Alton Gift'' is a science fiction novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross in the ''Darkover'' series. It was first published by in hardcover by DAW Books in 2007. The book is the first in the "Children of Kings" trilogy. In terms of Darkover's timeline, the book starts three years after the death of Regis Hastur in ''Traitor's Sun'', and is a continuation of that story. The book falls in the Darkover time period that the publisher has labeled "Modern Darkover", which succeeds the departure of the Terran Federation. Plot summary Book One Domenic Alton-Hastur arrives at Comyn Castle in Thendara, accompanying the body of his late grandmother, Javanne Lanart-Hastur. He is reunited with his cousin, Alanna Alar, an emotionally unstable young woman who is unable to control her outbursts of temper and ''laran''. Domenic and Danilo Syrtis-Ardais learn that Alanna appears to have a version of the Elhalyn gift, which shows the possessor multiple possible f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zandru's Forge
''Zandru's Forge'' is a science fantasy novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, part of the ''Darkover'' series; it is set in The Hundred Kingdoms era, at the end of the Ages of Chaos. This book is also part two of ''The Clingfire'' trilogy. The events in this book start about 20 years after the end of ''The Fall of Neskaya''. Chapters 35 and 46–50 overlap with ''Hawkmistress!''. The end of the book describes Varzil Ridenow being appointed Keeper of Neskaya, so the book takes place before ''Two to Conquer''. Plot summary Prologue Rumail Deslucido, a bitter, corrupt and defeated laranzu, tells his twisted story to his only son, Eduin MacEarn (from ''The Fall of Neskaya''). He has sent each of his sons to kill the Hasturs, and each has died in the attempt. Now it is Eduin's turn. He charges Eduin with the duty to enter Arilinn Tower and befriend all, but to secretly kill any Hasturs he can. Book One Varzil Ridenow presents himself for admission t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rediscovery
''Rediscovery'' is a science fantasy novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey, part of the ''Darkover'' series of novels and short stories published in the United States since 1958. It was first published by DAW Books in 1993. ''Rediscovery'' deals with Earth's reestablishment of contact with the lost human colony on the planet Darkover after centuries of societal development on the colony world. It presents the backstory necessary for understanding '' The Sword of Aldones'', ''Sharra's Exile'', and ''The Heritage of Hastur''. The story take place between 2,000 and 5,000 years after human colonization of the planet in ''Darkover Landfall''. Plot summary On Darkover, Lorill Hastur accompanies his twin, Leonie, to Dalereuth Tower for training. The keeper, Fiora, discovers that she has amazing but undisciplined ''laran'' powers. A Terran ship heads towards Cottman's Star, seeking possible descendants of pre-Empire lost colony ships of the distant past. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
