London: Arrow Books. Good. 1978. First British Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, some edge and shelf wear, dealer sticker upon remains of previous to front cover, paper starting to tone. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Melvyn Grant. ; The Darkover Series; 192 pages; The planet Darkover served as a convenient space port for the Terran Empire. Beyond that the Terrans knew little of the planet's strange landscape. Its vast mountain ranges, its deadly winds and its hostile inhabitants. Dan Barron, a simple space port despatcher, found himself alone and helpless in this alien world. A victim of powerful psychic forces beyond the comprehension of scientific man, irrestistibly drawn into a ife and death struggle... .

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Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67. She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction . She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine , which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called Sword and Sorceress for DAW Books. Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds , although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled Mists of Avalon , which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand , a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon , Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26611
Title: The Winds of Darkover
Author: Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Edition: First British Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0099178109
ISBN 13: 9780099178101
Publisher: Arrow Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: Mass Market PB
Bookseller catalogs: Classic Science Fiction And Fantasy;

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