Darkover - Publication Order Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters, Deborah J. Ross

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  • The Planet Savers (Darkover - Publication Order #1)
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    The Planet Savers (Darkover - Publication Order #1)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1958

    These two short novels are a welcome addition to any SF fan's library. The Planet Savers, the first Darkover novel, introduces the reader to the now legendary world of Cottman IV. The Winds of Darkover, also an early novel in the series, reveals the awesome and terrifying powers of the infamous Sharra Matrix.

  • The Sword of Aldones (Darkover - Publication Order #2)
    #2

    The Sword of Aldones (Darkover - Publication Order #2)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1962

    Lew Alton was returning to Darkover - returning at the command of men who had once been all too glad to see him leave. For Lew, a Darkovan on his father's side, and a Terran on his mother's, had always walked between two worlds, accused by each of belonging to the other, and trusted by neither. Yet Lew alone had the power to understand both worlds and to save them from each other's unknown forces... more

  • The Planet Savers/ The Sword Of Aldones (Darkover - Publication Order #1-2)
    #1-2

    The Planet Savers/ The Sword Of Aldones (Darkover - Publication Order #1-2)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1962

    Two novels: The Planet Savers and The Sword of Aldones plus a short-story Waterfall and a non-ficition article Darkover Retrospective

  • The Bloody Sun (Darkover - Publication Order #3)
    #3

    The Bloody Sun (Darkover - Publication Order #3)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1964

    This is the re-written version of the original story.To Terran Jeff Kerwin the distant planet he remembered only as a childhood dream was home... more

  • Star of Danger (Darkover - Publication Order #4)
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    Star of Danger (Darkover - Publication Order #4)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1965

    First published in 1965, Star of Danger is a work that stands as a foundation for the bestselling Darkover series, introducing many loyal fans to this wonderful, mysterious world. Two natives of Darkover are forced to combine Darkover matrix magic with Terran technology to stand against a shared enemy.

  • The Winds Of Darkover (Darkover - Publication Order #5)
    #5

    The Winds Of Darkover (Darkover - Publication Order #5)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 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 become legend in the outside world--the howling inhuman Ya-men, the deadly Ghost Wind, the fiefs of barbaric brigand chieftains, decaying eldritch Dry-Towns...and the eerie forces that were worshiped as gods... more

  • The World Wreckers (Darkover - Publication Order #6)
    #6

    The World Wreckers (Darkover - Publication Order #6)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 1971

    Planetary Investments Unlimited--that was its official name. But unofficially it was knows 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 forced to allow Terran investors to step in and salvage their planet. And now, once again, its agents were at work... more

  • Darkover Landfall (Darkover - Publication Order #7)
    #7

    Darkover Landfall (Darkover - Publication Order #7)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1972

    Darkover, planet of wonder, world of mystery, has been a favorite of science fiction readers for many years. For it is a truly alien sphere--a world of strange intelligences, of brooding skies beneath a ruddy sun, and of powers unknown to Earth. In this novel, Marion Zimmer Bradley tells of the original coming of the Earthmen, of the days when Darkover knew not humanity... more

  • The Heritage of Hastur (Darkover - Publication Order #9)
    #9

    The Heritage of Hastur (Darkover - Publication Order #9)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1975

    Nominated for a Hugo Award, and described as "Bradley's best [Darkover] novel" by Locus, The Heritage of Hastur tells the complex and compelling tale of the early life of Regis Hastur, Darkover's greatest monarch. It also spins the terrifying and heartbreaking story of those who sought to control the deadly Sharra Matrix, and of how Lew Alton met and lost his greatest love, Marjorie Scott.

  • The Shattered Chain (Darkover - Publication Order #10)
    #10

    The Shattered Chain (Darkover - Publication Order #10)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1976

    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 chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.

  • The Forbidden Tower (Darkover - Publication Order #11)
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    The Forbidden Tower (Darkover - Publication Order #11)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 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 into a terrifying unity in that defiance were two men and two women.The men were Damon Ridenow, a Comyn of the ruling caste, and Andrew Carr, the Earthman who had won for himself the right of clan-entry.

  • Stormqueen! (Darkover - Publication Order #12)
    #12

    Stormqueen! (Darkover - Publication Order #12)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1978

    The great epic of Darkover did not begin with the Terrans' arrival. For in those years, the power of the matrix was first learned--and misused in a power struggle that could have made Darkover a duplicate of Terra.

  • Sharra's Exile (Darkover - Publication Order #15)
    #15

    Sharra's Exile (Darkover - Publication Order #15)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1981

    The sequel to Heritage of Hastur, perhaps the single most popular of Bradley's spectacular Darkover novels, Sharra's Exile is the story of Lew Alton's return to Darkover and his battle to destroy the deadly Sharra matrix.

  • Hawkmistress! (Darkover - Publication Order #16)
    #16

    Hawkmistress! (Darkover - Publication Order #16)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1982

    She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She had the MacAran Gift, the rare Laran that conferred mastery over hawk and horse.

  • Thendara House (Darkover - Publication Order #18)
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    Thendara House (Darkover - Publication Order #18)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1983

    Bradley, Marion Zimmer, Thendara House

  • Exile's Song (Darkover - Publication Order #32)
    #32

    Exile's Song (Darkover - Publication Order #32)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1996

    She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeting memories disturbed her sleep were fragments of terror - a strange silver man and a screaming woman with hair that circled her head like a ring of fire. Since leaving Darkover as a child, Margaret had lived her life on Thetis... more

  • The Shadow Matrix (Darkover - Publication Order #33)
    #33

    The Shadow Matrix (Darkover - Publication Order #33)

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings · published 1997

    After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited Laran gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover... more

  • Hastur Lord (Darkover - Publication Order #39)
    #39

    Hastur Lord (Darkover - Publication Order #39)

    Deborah J. Ross, Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2010

    A never-before-published fantasy novel set in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover universe. The world of Darkover, a unique, isolated, and protected world, has long avoided becoming part of the technologically advanced Terran Empire. But things are about to change. Regis Hastur, lord of the most powerful of the seven Domains in Darkover, learns that the Empire is about to become a Federation, and is extending an invitation for all of the worlds to join... more

  • The Children of Kings (Darkover - Publication Order #40)
    #40

    The Children of Kings (Darkover - Publication Order #40)

    Deborah J. Ross, Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2013

    A Novel of Darkover®Millennia ago, the planet Darkover, a cold world orbiting a giant red sun, was settled by a lost colony ship from the Terran Federation. Alone on a new world, survivors interbred with the native chieri, psychically Gifted alien humanoids. The children of these matings were Gifted with telepathy and other psychic abilities, and their descendants, the aristocratic Comyn, forged a civilization in which the arts of the mind were cultivated and cherished... more

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