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Thendara House
''Thendara House'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her '' Darkover series'' and a sequel to '' The Shattered Chain''. It was originally published by DAW Books (No. 544) in 1983. The book was co-written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, without credit. The title refers to the Thendera Guildhouse of Renunciates, a religio-military sisterhood whose members live independently from Darkover's rigid patriarchal society. In terms of the Darkover timeline, the events of ''Thendera House'' take place three or four years after ''The Spell Sword'' and about two years after the events of ''The Forbidden Tower''.Russell Montray announces "we've found Mattingly and Carr", explaining that their plane was lost three or four years prior. ''Thendara House'', pg 199, DAW Books, 1983, paperback. Plot summary Part One: Conflicting Oaths Magda Lorne tenders her resignation from Terran service to her supervisor, Cholayna Ares, saying that she has taken an oath t ... [...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] |
Darkover
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] |
American Science Fiction Novels
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...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] |
1983 American Novels
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazism, Nazi war crime, war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for 1983 Australian federal election, elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. American author and activist L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982. The Society created a Hall of Fame Award (for classic works of libertarian science fiction, not necessarily novels) in 1983, and also presents occasional one-off Special Awards. Multiple recipients Some authors have won the award for best novel more than once: Thrice * Cory Doctorow * Victor Koman * Ken MacLeod * L. Neil Smith Twice * Travis J I Corcoran * James P. Hogan * Neal Stephenson * Vernor Vinge * F. Paul Wilson A few authors have won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award more than once: * Poul Anderson * Robert Heinlein * George Orwell * Ayn Rand * F. Paul Wilson Process Books published in a given year are eligible (although books from the last few months of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Of Danger
''Star of Danger'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her ''Darkover'' series. It was first published by Ace Books in 1965. Bradley states in "Author's Notes on Chronology" that in her view, ''Star of Danger'' occurs about thirty years after the events in ''The Spell Sword''.Marion Zimmer Bradley, "Author's Notes on Chronology", endnote to ''The Spell Sword'', DAW Books, 1974, paperback Plot summary Wade Montray, a civil servant of the Terran Empire, is transferred from Earth to Darkover. He's a widower with a teenaged son, Larry, who is fascinated by this alien world. Larry has learned the rudiments of the Darkovan language from tapes, and wants to explore outside the confines of the Terran Spaceport complex and the Trade City. During his first solo exploration, Larry runs into a gang of street toughs. A local, Kennard Alton, intervenes. After Larry comports himself well in a one-on-one fight with one of the toughs, Alton invites him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover
''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover'' is a collection of science fantasy Science fantasy is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy. In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientif ... short stories by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley. The stories are set in Bradley's world of '' Darkover''. The book was first published by DAW Books (No. 929) in October 1993. The stories are divided into four sections, each preceded by a brief overview of Bradley's thoughts on that category's main subject(s). Some of the stories were previously unpublished, notably the "Hilary" stories that had been intended as drafts for a proposed novel about the character Hilary Castamir. Other stories in this collection originally appeared in previous ''Darkover'' anthologies edited by Bradley, although not all of her previous anthology contributions are reprinted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
The Spell Sword
''The Spell Sword'' is a sword and planet novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of the ''Darkover series, Darkover'' series. The book was co-authored by Paul Edwin Zimmer, Bradley's brother, though he was not credited. ''The Spell Sword'' was first published in paperback by DAW Books, DAW in 1974 and has been republished several times. This book is the first in a trilogy within the Darkover series dealing with the evolution of Towers and Keepers. The sequels are ''The Forbidden Tower'' (1977) and ''The Bloody Sun'' (1979), which takes place many decades later. In "Author's Notes on Chronology", Bradley states that in her view, ''The Spell Sword'' occurs about thirty years before ''Star of Danger''.Marion Zimmer Bradley, ''Author's Notes on Chronology'', endnote to ''The Spell Sword'', DAW Books, 1974, paperback Plot summary Andrew Carr is employed as a technician in the Empire's Mapping and Exploration survey of Cottman IV, known locally as Darkover. His survey pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Jacqueline Lichtenberg (born March 25, 1942, Flushing, Queens, New York) is an American science fiction author. Many of her early novels are set in the Sime~Gen Universe, which she first described in a short story in 1969. Writing the series satisfied her preference for "'Intimacy'—the kind of relationship between the character and other characters, between the character and the universe, or between the character and him/herself, that brings trust into life" over "Action," a genre she "seriously dislike " Her other writings have dealt with fantasy and occult subjects, including articles on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. She has written a monthly review column on science fiction, under the title "Science Fiction", for '' The Monthly Aspectarian''. Under the pen name 'Daniel R. Kerns', she has published two novels, ''Hero'' and ''Border Dispute''. Many of her works have been written in collaboration with Jean Lorrah, with whom Lichtenberg has a business partnership. A Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
