The Colors of Space - Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Colors of Space is a 1963 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. - Can Bart Steele devise a plan to steal the secret of faster-than-light space travel from the Lhari, reptilian aliens who ruthlessly control warpdrive technology?
Across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication. There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love. Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service.
Young Bart Steeles father is dead. A mysterious stranger tells him his life is in danger, and hands him a ticket aboard a Lhari star cruiser to an unknown destination. He gets on, not knowing where he is going, or why... A fantastic kids adventure from sci-fi master Marion Zimmer Bradley. ( Summary by Mark Nelson )
The Terran colony on the planet Darkover faces imminent destruction by a plague of the deadly Trailmens Fever. The only hope is to develop a serum in time, but this requires the cooperation of the elusive native Trailmen, the brilliant parasitologist Dr. Jay Allison, and his split personality. (Introduction by Mark Nelson)
At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory.But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years hed sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran Headquarters, cut off there ever since he and a rival had scarred and ripped each other in blood-feud.But when THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE swung suddenly open, the feud was on againand with it a plot designed to check and destroy the Terran Empire.
Calista, una celadora de la matriz que permite las transmisiones telepáticas en el planeta Darkover, es secuestrada por los hombres gato. Damon Ridenow, lord del Comyn, será el encargado de rescatarla. Contará con la colaboración de Andrew Carr, un humilde terrano que, sin embargo, posee cierto laran o poder telepático, y que acaba siendo el único héroe capaz de liberar a Calista de las garras de sus temibles captores.
Regis Hastur, lord del Comyn, se enfrenta a la expansión de su laran o poder telepático, a la vez que sigue un lento proceso de maduración personal y sexual. Hastur y Lew Alton compartirán decisiones que cambiarán el rumbo de Comyn. En el planeta Darkover la magia y la telepatía son elementos esenciales de una cultura antitecnológica que resiste con éxito los más variados intentos de forzar su integración en una unión política y económica con el Imperio Terrano.
Las Amazonas Libres son un grupo de mujeres fieles a un juramento, que intentan superar las limitaciones impuestas por una sociedad machista. Bradley profundiza en el papel de las mujeres de Darkover y en el diferente trato que reciben en cada uno de sus Siete Dominios. Darkover, un planeta dominado por una cultura antitecnológica, resiste con éxito los más variados intentos de forzar su integración en el Imperio Terrano.
Morgaine, gifted with the Sight and fated with her brother-lover's doom, recounts the glorious tragedy of Camelot's brief flowering - not as a tale of knightly deeds, but as a woman's rounded view of society in the crucible of change. Through the lives of pious Guinevere, ambitious Morgause, Priestess of Avalon Viviane and her successor as Lady of the Lake, Morgaine herself, this rich and haunting epic reveals a greater threat to the Old People than the Saxons. For the spread of patriarchal Roman ways and a narrow Christianity seem likely to drive the ancient worship of the Mother forever into the mists ...
It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The Mentorian paused, needle in hand. "Do you wish to be wakened for the time we shall spend in each of the three star systems, sir? You can, of course, be given enough drug to keep you in cold-sleep until we reach your destination." Bart felt tempted -- he wanted very much to see the other star systems. But he couldnt risk meeting other passengers.
Somewhere on the Time Ellipse Mike Kenscott became Adric; and the only way to return to his own identity was to find the Keep of the Dreamer, and loose the terrible Falcons of Narabedla! Marion Zimmer Bradley exceeds expectations with this classic sci-fi/fantasy tale.
En el planeta Darkover la magia y la telepatía son elementos esenciales de una cultura antitecnológica que resiste con éxito los más variados intentos de forzar su integración en una unión política y economica con el imperio Terrano. En la presente entrega, Lew Alton se exilia de Darkover con Sharra, la mas legendaria y peligrosa de las piedras matrices de Darkover. Encarnada en la imagen de una mujer encadenada y rodeada de llamas, Sharra es el ultimo vestigio de las poderosas armas de las Eras del Caos que casi destruyeron la civilizacion en el planeta del sol sangriento.Las novelas sobre el planeta Darkover (de lectura independiente) son el mejor ejemplo del auge de la nueva fantasia, que huye de la pretension racionalizadora y cientifista tan habitual en la ciencia ficcion clasica.
