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Darkover Landfall

Darkover Landfall

Science FictionSpace Opera
Pages
160
Published
1972
Language
English

Synopsis

A starship crash-lands on an uncharted planet, forcing the surviving crew to adapt to a world unlike anything they've known. As they struggle to build a new society, they discover the planet, Darkover, holds secrets that will challenge their very humanity. This is the story of humanity's first, desperate attempt to survive and thrive on an alien world.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseThought-Provoking
SurvivalFirst ContactFish Out of Water

Genres

Science Fiction Space Opera

About the author

M
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Darkover Landfall the first book in the Darkover series?

    While published later in the series' history, Darkover Landfall is chronologically the first story in the Darkover universe, detailing the initial arrival of humans on the planet. It serves as an origin story for the entire setting.

  • Does Darkover Landfall connect to Marion Zimmer Bradley's other works?

    This novel is the foundational text for Marion Zimmer Bradley's extensive Darkover series, which explores the evolution of human society and culture on an alien world over millennia. It establishes many of the core concepts and conflicts that are developed in subsequent books.