A World Divided: (Darkover Omnibus #5)

An omnibus volume of three classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels--Star of Danger, The Bloody Sun, and Winds of Darkover--tell of two men of mixed Darkovan ancestry, who must choose where their true allegiances lie.

Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.

She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.

In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books.

Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon

She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.

One World, Two Cultures The Bloody Sun Jeff Kerwin had spent his early years in the Spacemen's Orphanage in the Terran Trade City on Darkover. Yet he was haunted by dreams of the world surrounding this Terran oasis, a world he somehow felt had once been his. Shipped back to Earth at the age of twelve, Jeff could not escape the conviction that only on Darkover would he discover who he truly was. But when he finally returned to the planet of the Bloody Sun as a member of the Terran Spaceforce, he still felt like an outcast. For though he had the red hair of a comyn lord and carried a powerful matrix jewel, he had no memory of how he had acquired it. Only if he managed to learn the secrets of the Towers could he hope to unlock the mystery of his heritage. Star of Danger Although the Darkovans are descendants of a long-lost Terran colony ship, they distrust the Terran spacers who have taken up residence on their planet, fearing these "strangers" will disrupt the entire society of Darkover. And many Terrans do feel that the people of Darkover should abandon their "backward" culture and become part of the Terran Empire. Yet despite this mutual prejudice, Terran Larry Montray and Darkovan Kennard Alton forge a bond of friendship. But when Larry and Kennard are forced to combine Darkover matrix magic with Terran technology to stand against a mutual enemy, will their alliance fracture the stability of both their cultures? Winds of Darkover When a bandit gang seizes High Windward, holding the Storn family hostage, the laran powers of the oldest son Loran are the family's only hope. Reaching out with those powers, he finds a young Terran, Dan Barron, and "overshadows" his mind, sending him on a desperate rescue mission to Aldaran Castle. But the "help" that the powerful Aldaran family offers may be far more dangerous than any bandit. For what they offer is use of the terrible Sharra Matrix-dreaded weapon of the Ages of Chaos.

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