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.
Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well. The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished. Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn's daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother's death and father's disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother's death accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorn's ritual, will someone else die?
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.
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 ...
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.
Trying to outrun the memory of a drunk-driving accident where he may have killed someone, Wycherly Musgrave sends his expensive sports car sailing off the road. . . . Amazingly, he survives the crash with no more than a few bumps and bruises, but the car is totaled and Wych is stranded in tiny Morton's Fork. Sinah Dellon left Morton's Fork an infant foundling. Now a world-famous movie star, her most closely-held secret is her ability to read minds. She's come home in search of the truth about her origins. Also poking around in Morton's Fork this fateful summer are researchers investigating centuries of reported hauntings and other phenomena. Truth Blackburn discovers a renegade Gate, a portal to another plane. But she cannot close the Gate without the help of its Keeper, who is nowhere to be found. Wycherly, Sinah, and Truth are fighters in the eternal struggle between Light and Darkness, and the small mountain town of Morton's Fork has become a battleground.
Truman
