- Darkover (Imaginary place), Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
The Fall of Neskaya, Book One of the Clingfire Trilogy, marks the legendary author's final return to Darkover before her death. Set in the tumultuous era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a terrible time of strife and war, this unique fantasy world is divided into a mutlitude of small belligerent domains vying for power and land. One ambitious and corrupt tyrant will stop at nothing to control Darkover-even wield the terrifying weapons of the matrix.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 556
- Publisher
- Distributed by Penguin Putnam, DAW Books, Weltbild
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780756400538
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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 Uni
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