Stormqueen!

Name: Stormqueen!
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780879976293

by Unknown Author

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368 pages1978DAWISBN 9780879976293

Fiction

About this book

The great epic of the world beneath the Bloody Sun known as Darkover did not begin with the coming of the Terrans. It began far earlier, during the dark days of the civilization that came to be known as The Ages of Chaos. For in those years the pwoer of the matrix was first learned - and misused in a power struggle between the rising Domains. that mental-physical force created a technology that threatened to make Darkover into a frightening duplicate of all that was bad in far-off Terra. This is the first novel of the days when the matrix was in the hands of ambitious men, when genetic tampering was producing prodigies and wielders of strange powers, as well as psi monsters, and when the heir of hte Hasturs met his destiny in the persons of the witch-woman he loved and the mutant girl-child he had pledged to protect.

Publication Details

Publisher: DAW
Published: 1978
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780879976293
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.