The Keeper's Price

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Book Overview

The first anthology of short stories set on Darkover, spanning Darkovan history: from shortly after the arrival of the lost Terran ship, through the Ages of Chaos, the rise of the Comyn and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879975172
• ISBN13: 9780879975173
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The title story alone deserves five stars!

Take your favorite Darkover novel, compress it into a few pages but leave all the emotional impact in place -- that's "The Keeper's Price." I notice that MZB and Lisa Waters kept coming back to Hilary Castamir's charcter, and I wish there had been a novel about her. :)Leaving aside the brilliance of the title masterpiece, the rest of the collection is strong and well-organized. Even the stories I didn't like as much at first ("A Simple Dream" comes to mind, as does "Ambassador to Corresanti") have grown on me. I've read and re-read this collection probably twenty times in the past year. I still want to read it over again. These are wonderful stories!I also appreciated how well-organized this collection and _Sword of Chaos_ were, and wish the anthologies had continued to print stories in approximate chronological order. Oh well.