![]() ![]() ![]() It’s fantasy based in dark reality and dealing with a fascinating topic – the doppelganger. Richard Bowes’ Minions of the Moon (TOR Books, $23.95, 320 pages) is a “take a chance, try something really different” kind of book. One hint – Bradley fans won’t be surprised at who winds up winning this cultural war. ![]() ![]() In her new novel, Traitor’s Sun (DAW Books, $24.95, 483 pages), Bradley takes the series to a new point in the history of Darkover. Tolkien, who almost single-handedly transformed fantasy literature in the last half of the 20th century.īut it also would be equally impossible to argue that any series ever seemed as real or was as fully explored as Bradley’s colony of shipwrecked Terran space travelers who developed all sorts of seemingly magical powers on the cold, alien world of jagged mountains and strange plants they named Darkover. It would be hard to argue, say, that any series has ever had the impact of the Middle Earth sagas of hobbits and dragons penned by J.R.R. Others may have been more influential or popular. It’s likely that when the history of 20th-century fantasy and science fiction is written in the next century, critics and students of the genre will agree that the Darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley was one of the most beloved and best realized fictional worlds ever created. ![]()
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