The Winds of Darkover

communications expert Dan Barron, a Terran stationed on wintry Darkover, is given a punishment-assignment to teach lenscrafting to the tech-phobic Darkovans, after a temporary telepathic takeover targeting Dan causes a near-crash at the spaceport. adventures ensue, including increasing mental incurs......more

Maybe reading the Darkover books in order of publication wasn't such a hot idea, after all. I'm now on the fifth one, and I'm not sure that I want to go much further. The Winds of Darkover is a clunky, sloppily edited story that lurches along to an improbable ending. So why not just quit reading Dark......more

Con questo volume si conclude l'era dei Comyn di Darkover e in effetti il libro ha tutto il sapore delle storie che segnano un passaggio fra un'epoca e l'altra all'interno di una saga. Il che mi stupisce tantissimo considerando che invece è il 5° in ordine di pubblicazione... L'autrice ha davvero tu......more

The thing I've always appreciated about Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series is that it works as both scine fiction and fantasy; not many authors can pull that off. I first read the darkover series about twenty five years ago or so, when I bought or was given an omnibus of five or so novels calle......more

2.5 stars. Not my favorite Darkover novel. Storn and his sister and Barron. (And the other sister and brother, but no need to discuss them, I guess?) I understand that each book within the series may be read on its own, but I benefited greatly from having previously read the Shattered Chain (as part......more