The Bloody Sun
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780441068630 (0441068634)
Publish date: July 1st 1986
Publisher: Daw Books
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Series: Darkover 6 (#17)
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...
The first book of the 'Darkover' series I read. I think it's a good place to start since the main character is an outsider who knows nothing about the ways of this world and we get to experience it and learn about it with him. It was very easy to identify myself with the protagonist and his difficul...
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 ...