La Casa de Thendara es el centro de formación de las Amazonas Libres de Darkover. Magda, una terrana, acude allí para cumplimentar su juramento como Amazona Libre. Al mismo tiempo, la darkovana Jaelle, su hermana de juramento, la sustituirá en el centro terrano. Ambas deberán desenvolverse en el seno de dos culturas distintas -una igualitaria y otra dominada por los varones- y ceñirse al papel que cada sociedad reserva a las mujeres.
Las Amazonas Libres son un grupo de mujeres fieles a un juramento, que intentan superar las limitaciones impuestas por una sociedad machista. Bradley profundiza en el papel de las mujeres de Darkover y en el diferente trato que reciben en cada uno de sus Siete Dominios. Darkover, un planeta dominado por una cultura antitecnológica, resiste con éxito los más variados intentos de forzar su integración en el Imperio Terrano.
Calista, una celadora de la matriz que permite las transmisiones telepáticas en el planeta Darkover, es secuestrada por los hombres gato. Damon Ridenow, lord del Comyn, será el encargado de rescatarla. Contará con la colaboración de Andrew Carr, un humilde terrano que, sin embargo, posee cierto laran o poder telepático, y que acaba siendo el único héroe capaz de liberar a Calista de las garras de sus temibles captores.
Ciudad de brujería es la narración de un peligroso viaje a una misteriosa ciudad de leyenda. Las protagonistas de este periplo son mujeres a las que impulsan diferentes razones: ambición, poder, sed de sabiduría. El objetivo es encontrar la Hermandad que perdura en el culto ancestral de la diosa Avarra y que se esconde en los límites de las altas montañas conocidas como el Muro Alrededor del Mundo. Las novelas sobre el planeta Darkover, independientes entre sí, son el mejor ejemplo del auge de la nueva fantasía, que huye de la pretensión racionalizadora y cientifista tan habitual en la ciencia ficción clásica.
A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantasy about that ancient and legendary realm. On one side stand the Priests of the White Robe, guardians of powerful natural forces which could threaten the world if misused. Ranged against them are the Black Robes, sorcerers who secretly practice their dark arts in the labyrinthine caves beneath the very Temple of Light. Caught between are Domaris and Deoris, daughters of the Archpriest Talkannon, trapped in a web of deadly sorcery -- the same forbidden sorcery that could bring about The FALL of ATLANTIS Marion Zimmer Bradley began writing science fiction and fantasy in 1953. After many short stories and short novels in science fiction magazines, she published the first of her novels, The Door Through Space, in 1961. The following year she published The Sword of Aldones -- the beginning of her popular and monumental Darkover series -- which was nominated for that year's Hugo Award for Best Novel. A later Darkover novel, The Forbidden Tower, was also nominated for a Hugo Award, and a third, The Heritage of Hastur, was nominated for a Nebula Award. Her works set on the planet Darkover, which adroitly combine science fiction and fantasy, are so popular that for twenty-five years an annual convention has been held for fans of the Darkover universe. Her most popular novel was The Mists of Avalon, which won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, spent months on the New York Times Best Seller List as a hardcover, then repeated the feat in a trade paperback edition. It has sold over a million copies, and has been filmed as a TV miniseries. Ms. Bradley died in 1999 (more) (less)
Trying to outrun the memory of a drunk-driving accident where he may have killed someone, Wycherly Musgrave sends his expensive sports car sailing off the road. . . . Amazingly, he survives the crash with no more than a few bumps and bruises, but the car is totaled and Wych is stranded in tiny Morton's Fork. Sinah Dellon left Morton's Fork an infant foundling. Now a world-famous movie star, her most closely-held secret is her ability to read minds. She's come home in search of the truth about her origins. Also poking around in Morton's Fork this fateful summer are researchers investigating centuries of reported hauntings and other phenomena. Truth Blackburn discovers a renegade Gate, a portal to another plane. But she cannot close the Gate without the help of its Keeper, who is nowhere to be found. Wycherly, Sinah, and Truth are fighters in the eternal struggle between Light and Darkness, and the small mountain town of Morton's Fork has become a battleground.
Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well. The truth may never be known . . . one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished. Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Hearing this, Thorne Blackburn's daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother's death and father's disappearance. Truth has many unanswered questions. Where are her long-lost half-siblings? Was her mother's death accident or murder? Is Pilgrim a charlatan, or are his claimed powers real? If he completes Thorn's ritual, will someone else die?
