Heritage and Exile

✍ Scribed by Bradley, Marion Zimmer

• Publisher: DAW Books
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: Italian
• Weight: 254 KB
• Series: Darkover
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1101157496

✦ Synopsis

The people of Darkover are descendants of Terran colonists who over centuries had lost their science, turning instead to the curious technology of the matrix stones and laran, or psi, powers. During the lawless Ages of Chaos and the time of the Hundred Kingdoms, these powers were used to drive weapons that could kill from afarweapons so terrible that they almost destroyed Darkover until they were banned by the Compact. Set during the Second Age, after the Terran Empire reestablished contact, these books chronicle the pivotal events in the turbulent relationship between Terra and its semi-alien offspring. Nominated for a Hugo Award, and described as Bradley's best [Darkover] novel by Locus, The Heritage of Hastur tells the complex and compelling story of the early life of Regis Hastur, Darkover's greatest monarch. It also spins the tale of those who sought to control the deadly Sharra Matrix and tells how Lew Alton met and lost his greatest love, Marjorie Scott. Here is the showdown between those Darkovan lords who would bargain away their world for the glories of Terran science and those who would preserve the matrix powers that are at once the prize and the burden of Darkover. In Sharra's Exile, the most dangerous magical implement on all of Darkoverthe legendary Shara matrixmoves to the center of the story. Embodied as a chained woman wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining magical weapon of the Ages of Chaos. The matrix had been exiled offworld to one of the planets of the Terran Empire, in the custody of one who had suffered gravely from its use: Comyn Lord Lew Alton. But when he was called back to Darkover, he had no choice but to bring it with him. Once back, the stone's flaming image spread far and wide, setting in motion events that would forever change the seven Domains and the future of Darkover.

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Fantasy -- General