by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I'm a fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley, but my affection for her rests not on the Avalon books, which I didn't care for, but her Darkover series. Darkover is a "lost colony" of Earth that falls into a medieval society. Ruled by a psychic aristocracy, it is later rediscovered by a star-spanning high-tech...
One of my favourite Darkover novels, and the rewrite is much much better than the novel was the first time around.
[These notes were made in 1984:]. This is one of the slightly earlier ones in (chronological) sequence, and was also one of the earliest written, though I read it in the 1979 revised edition. Bradley, it seems to me, has done a skilful job of hiding the seams of her revision, and I found this novel ...