ReDiscovery (Darkover( (DAW book collectors, no. 909) - Hardcover

Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mercedes Lackey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0886775612 ISBN 13: 9780886775612

Publisher: DAW, 1993

Synopsis

Many years after a Terran spaceship crashlands on a remote world, stranding its passengers on the planet known as Darkover, another ship from Earth rediscovers the frigid planet and its now telepathic inhabitants. 50,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

Mercedes Lackey is a full-time writer and has published numerous novels and works of short fiction, including the best-selling Heralds Of Valdemar series. She is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots. She can be found at mercedeslackey.com.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Bradley (Black Trillium, 1990, etc.) here joins forces with the prolific Lackey (coauthor, The Elvenbane, 1991, etc.) for the long-awaited story of the rediscovery of the lost colony of Darkover, settled by a ship from Earth, but unable to sustain high technology after losing contact with the parent civilization; now, after centuries of isolation, a second wave of exploration from Earth arrives. The two cultures could hardly be more different: Darkover is a low-tech feudal society, male- dominated, in which telepathic powers have developed to extraordinary degrees, while the Terran ship carries a crew of scientists, equipped with the latest computer technology, representatives of a rationalistic and egalitarian interstellar empire. As a result, the first contacts between the two are filled with mistaken assumptions and false steps. Much of the story, meanwhile, is told from the points of view of two women: Leonie Hastur, an extraordinarily gifted young telepath, descended from perhaps the most powerful clan on Darkover; and Ysaye Barnett, the expedition's computer specialist, who has (by Terran standards) unusual telepathic powers of her own. The plot moves very slowly at first, full of small conflicts and misunderstandings; most of the real action is concentrated in the last hundred pages, where the foundations are laid for the acrimonious relationship between Earth and Darkover that will prevail in the double handful of novels Bradley has already set on this world. Given that the events here are among the most crucial in the entire history of the planet--the equivalent, in our own history, of Columbus's landing in America--it is curiously tame and tentative. Dedicated Darkover fans will probably find deep meaning in some of the apparently slight episodes, but for a newcomer to the series, almost any of Bradley's solo novels would be a better introduction. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: DAW
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0886775612
• ISBN 13: 9780886775612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Illustrator: Romas Kukalis