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The Planet Savers (2010)

by Marion Zimmer Bradley(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0012176397 (ISBN13: 2940012176394)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Quality Classics

review 1: Considered by Marion Zimmer Bradley as the first serious story about Darkover, "The Planet Savers" is firmly in the tradition of psionically based hard science fiction and includes the basic foundations of the Darkovan universe. It is an action-packed adventure covering aliens, Terran imperialists, lost Earth colonists, and the hazards of a primitive planet. In this first book you see why Darkover captured the imagination of readers immediately and spawn one of the greatest series in SF and fantasy without violating the rules of either of the genres. Like most of the Darkover works, the author maintains a high-level of psychological tension and a focus on cultures in collision. For a novel of less than ninety pages, it has an amazing depth of characterization for the prota... moregonist without interfering with the rapid pace of the adventure. Over all, the story is a fun and thought-provoking read.Given the recent accusations of sexual abuse by Bradley's daughter, I think it is important to alert this to potential readers. The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, which owns the copyrights to her literary works has released the following statement "...[we are] aware of the allegations that have been made...Marion is deceased and we are not able to ask her about her side of the story, nor do we have any personal knowledge of the events that are being described. All we can say is that during the decades in which we worked with her, we found Marion to be a great friend and enormously kind person. She was much loved by many friends, especially in the literary community where she supported the careers of many writers at considerable personal expense. That's just a statement of fact based on personal knowledge, and is not meant to be a response to these allegations".
review 2: This book was a pleasant surprise. When I read that it was the first of the Darkover novels to be published, I was expecting the world to be less well developed with a lot of mis-matches to details in later novels but I was wrong. The only mis-match was that I got the impression Regis and Rafe Scott were a bit older here than they were in Sharra's Exile.The title has nothing to do with weapons by the way, something else I imagined at first, but the battle is against a deadly infectious disease. I was also intrigued by the idea of someone having their dominant personality supressed so their alter ego could do a particular job! less

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