Darkover Landfall (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alien civilization
- Time of Work: The twenty-first century
- Setting: The planet Darkover
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Twenty-first century, Castaways
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
Marion Zimmer Bradley wrote Darkover Landfall to explain the origins of the people and culture of her created world of Darkover, the setting of numerous books. After a starship crashes, its surviving crew and passengers are stranded on an unknown planet. Repair of the ship, a tenuous hope at best, becomes impossible when someone erases its computer programs during a hallucinatory “ghost wind” episode. A survey group discovers alien life, including two reclusive humanoid races. The planet has terrible weather, poor soil, few metals, and mysterious psi...
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