Marion Zimmer Bradley

//Marion Zimmer Bradley
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  • Endless voyage...that's an old saying in the Explorers. But for every Explorer there is, somewhere, a planet he will not leave. For some, the cause is love. For others, the desire to give up the strange roving life of the star wanderers who live outside of planet-time. Even for the ones who love the metal ships that are their only home there is still a planet waiting, a planet that will hold them forever - in the final clasp of death. But until then, life is adventure and wonders undreamed of by mere planet dwellers, an Endless Universe of the unknown.  Cover art by Lombardo.  Later re-written and published as Endless Universe.
  • Narabedla...where the Rainbow Cities gleam in every colour imaginable under the light of twin suns; where lush flowers croon a song of death in the gardens of Karamy the Golden, where their victims are never found; where falcons with human intelligence hunt in the forests, but seek no ordinary prey; where the mutant Dreamers sleep fitfully in their dark keep, dreaming of power lost long ago, and soon to be reclaimed...Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly, who spurned humanity for its evils and jealousies and lived among the birds and the beasts of the forests. There was war in the lands of Darkover - but Romilly wanted none of it. Yet, dressed as a man or mindful of the creatures, she was also human. And duty to her own kind pointed her to the ultimate decision. Cover art by Bruce Pennington.
  • Book II of Avalon. Three remarkable women will alter the fortunes of Roman Britain as they fight to reclaim the magic and traditions of a once glorious past: Caillean, the young priestess fated to become Lady of Avalon, who rescues and raised the orphaned Gawen - heir to a mystic and dangerous royal line... Dierna, who must use all her strength and wisdom to guide Avalon through treacherous political waters and veil the island from a hostile world... and Viviane, the Lady of the Lake and Keeper of the Grail, destined for true greatness as she prepares Avalon for the coming of a legendary king...Cover art by Jude Palencar.
  • SInce Haramis and her sisters Anigel and Kadiya unified the kingdoms of Ruwenda and Labornok, Haramis has lived several lifetimes as Archmage and Guardian of a land now blooming with the mystical and once-rare black trillium. But high in the Tower of Orogastus, the evil sorcerer of technology she once defeated, Haramis is plagued by dreams that drive her to seek a successor.  The Princess Mikayla, still a child, knows nothing of her kinship to Haramis. When she and her cousin, Lord Fiolin, go on an adventure that leads them into peril, it is Haramis who rescues them.  Mikayla finds herself a privileged - if reluctant - captive, as she must abandon her dream of marriage to Fiolin and dedicate herself to the magic arts. Haramis finds that training and installing her successor the most difficult challenge of her life. Cover art by Mark Harrison.
  • Book IV of The Saga Of The Trillium. Haramis – the White Lady – has lived several lifetimes as Archimage and Guardian of a land now abloom with the mystical Black Trillium, once thought extinct. But now she is plagued by disturbing dreams that will drive her to seek a successor – Mikayla, who knows nothing of her fate or kinship with the great Haramis. The challenges ahead will be more difficult than either Haramis or Mikayla could ever imagine. For installing a successor may be the most difficult fight they’ve ever had to face…Cover art by Geoff Taylor.
  • Thieves' World sequence. A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovered this sorcerer's Secret could steal away the Blue Star power, leaving the Adept defenseless, fit only for death. And Lythande's secret was perhaps the most dangerous of all, setting the mage apart from all humanity, forcing Lythande to war against spell beast, sorcerer, thief, swordsman, and the magic of the gods themselves... Other Lythande stories in this volume: The Incompetent Magician; Somebody Else's Magic; Sea Wrack; The Wandering Lute; Looking for Satan by Vonda McIntyre. Cover art by Stephen Bradbury.
  • Book III of Avalon series. With her mother's dying breath, Eilan, fifth child of the High Priestess of Avalon, takes life. The baby is taken to her father, King Coel, and raised in the Roman way as Helena, but in A.D. 259 the ten year old girl is returned to the mystical place of her birth. There she begins her training as a priestess, in the face of her Aunt Ganeda's determination that she shall fail. Despite her aunt's  hostility, the child becomes a gifted Priestess and on the night of her initiation she has a vision of the Roman, Constantine, the man she will love for the rest of her life. Her vision also reveals that he is the one who will father a child who will free Britain from Roman tyranny.  But to be with him she must betray her sisters and turn her back on Avalon, to build a new life in the dangerous city of the enemy. Cover art by Paula Lewis.

  • The natives of Darkover were human but hostile to the Earth colonists who had come to their planet. Larry Montray, however, was able to become friendly with the Altons, an important clan, and was one of the few Terrans ever to observe Darkovan life and customs at first hand. But Larry would get much more than he bargained for - he found himself in the middle of a feud older than memory; a feud fought by unknown beings, deadly beasts and alien intelligences - and his actions would determine the fate of every Terran on the planet of the blood-red sun. Cover art by Michael Whelan.