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Sharra's exile (Darkover) Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1981

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The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Age of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun. . .Marion Zimmer Bradley has written what may be her most powerful and unforgettable novel of Darkover. A direct sequel to The Heritage of Hastur, it is a novel of love and hate, courage and horror, and the conflict of the worlds.

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October 1, 1981
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7 x 1 x 5 inches
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0879979887
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978-0879979881
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DAW; Reprint Edition (October 1, 1981)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0879979887
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0879979881
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1 x 5 inches

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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, 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 was "fantasy undiluted." She wrote a best-selling novel of the women in the Arthurian legends--Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others--entitled MISTS OF AVALON, and she also wrote THE FIREBRAND, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, THE FOREST HOUSE and LADY OF AVALON are prequels to MISTS 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 Mark Greyland; her daughter, Moira Greyland; and her grandchildren.

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Katharine F.

Darkover Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2023

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I read it. do you know how many reviews you are missing because you require a written response?

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Silntthnkr

The book was as advertised. It was arrived with ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2018

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The book was as advertised. It was arrived with $2 due in postage, I paid it as I wanted the book but it was not appreciated.

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lori harris

Liked this book very much

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2015

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I'm a big fan of the series. Liked this book very much.

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zinger

Much ado about nothing

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2019

This book reminds me of a hamster in a hamster wheel - a whole lot of activity, and no progress. Well, maybe there's a little bit of progress in the book, but it's hard to detect amidst all the verbosity. Characters obsess about their problems over and over again. I'm only reading this because I've read every book in my house twice already (and there are hundreds), and now I'm reading ones that I tossed aside before. I've read other Darkover novels, and enjoyed them. But this one just doesn't do it for me. In general I don't like fantasy novels written by women, because their approach to things is so different from a man's. A male character in a man's novel will go out and chop off a few heads, ravish the beautiful heroine, and problem solved! Things get much more complicated in a woman's novel. The main character has to be conflicted, yet caring, and sensitive to women's rights. Better to just chop off a few heads.

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James Yanni

Very fine sequel to "Heritage of Hasteur"

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2009

One of the earliest novels to appear in Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Darkover" universe was "Sword of Aldones"; this novel was written before Bradley truly learned her craft. Later, she wrote the prequel to it, "Heritage of Hasteur". Eventually, she came back to the original story concept, and completely reworked it. This book is the result of that reworking, which she refused to call a "rewriting" because the changes were more extensive than that. Here is what she had to say on the subject in an introductory note:

"Like all previous Darkover novels, this story is complete in itself and does not depend on knowledge of any other. More than any other Darkover novel, however, this one was written by popular demand.

One result of writing novels as they occurred to me, instead of following strict chronological order, was that I began with an attempt to solve the final problems of the society; each novel thus suggested one laid in an earlier time, in an attempt to explain how the society had reached that point. Unfortunately, that meant that relatively mature novels, early in the chronology of Darkover, were followed by books written when I was much younger and relatively less skilled at storytelling; and of all these, the least satisfactory was "The Sword of Aldones", perhaps because this book was, in essence, dreamed up at the age of fifteen.

In 1975 I made a landmark decision; that in writing "The Heritage of Hasteur", I would not be locked into the basically immature concepts set forth in "Sword", even at the sacrifice of consistency in the series. After "Heritage" appeared in print, "Sword of Aldones" seemed even less satisfactory -- for years, it seemed that everyone I met asked me when I was going to rewrite it. For years I replied "Never," or "I don't want to go back to it." But I finally decided that I had, in "Sword of Aldones", developed a basically good idea, without the skill or maturity to handle it as well as it deserved; and that the characters deserved serious treatment by a matured writer. I decided not to rewrite, but to write an entirely new book based on events in the same time frame as "Sword". The present book is the result."

This book is, in fact, one of Bradley's many fine Darkover novels. I highly recommend it. I do NOT recommend reading "Sword of Aldones", unless it is as a curiosity after having read this one, to see what the differences are, and to see for yourself how much of a difference twenty years of writing experience (give or take) will make to a writer.

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Joe Sherry

a solid Darkover offering

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006

This Darkover novel written by Marion Zimmer Bradley begins a couple of years after the events of The Heritage of Hastur. Lew Alton, now somewhat disfigured because of his use of the Sharra Matrix, is recovering offworld with his father and is a bitter young man. Everything that he cared about was taken from him, including his wife and unborn child, and he is partially responsible for the destruction of a city by the Sharra Matrix. The Sharra Matrix is a focus for incredible and ancient power and has been used as a nearly uncontrollable weapon in the past. Lew is one of the handful of men and women who rediscovered the matrix and through betrayals sought to use it, though with one final betrayal he helped to stop the destruction. Sharra's Exile covers several years that Lew spent off world in possession of the Matrix (he is so strongly linked to the Matrix that if he gets too far from it he may die), and then covers the events that follows his return to Darkover carrying the forbidden Matrix.

Sharra's Exile is told in alternating chapters between the first person perspective of Lew Alton and the third person perspective dealing with other characters, mostly Regis Hastur. This is a novel rife with conflict. Lew is emotionally a wreck and has a very difficult time controlling his emotions after the Sharra incident and because he is a telepath in a caste of telepaths, he is unintentionally broadcasting his pain to anyone nearby. Lew is also half Terran, so there are some in the Comyn ruling class who look down on Lew and his family even though he is the heir to his family's Domain. This is another conflict. Yet another has to do with the Sharra Matrix. In the Regis chapters there are conflicts regarding his views about Terran Culture and that Regis is far more progressive than his grandfather as well as most of the Comyn.

Sharra's Exile is a complete rewrite of one of Bradley's earliest novels The Sword of Aldones and while I haven't read that first book I thought this was a very solid entry into the Darkover Chronology. Bradley has multiple conflicts and plot points going and there is plenty of intrigue and even some action. The novel flows well and because of all of the conflict, Darkover is a conflicted society, there was plenty to hold my interest as she moved the primary story along of the re-emergence and fear of the Sharra Matrix. There is a bit of absurdity (The Sword of Aldones, the Terran woman) and Bradley has recycled a couple of story techniques she has used in the past but this time it is more dues ex machina than necessary plotting, but overall Sharra's Exile is a good Darkover story and an entertaining read. That's all I really ask for out of a book.

-Joe Sherry

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april

Exciting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2020

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Full of strife, fights, adventures, mysteries, good and evil, love and hate...sordid plots, revenge, changes, lots of love affairs, children, old folks, family entanglements, privileges and duties...part of a series, so not really a stand-alone, better if you read them in order...a must for darkover fans...

Debbie Horner

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2018

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As described

Arne

Important part of the Darkover serie

Reviewed in Germany on December 8, 2021

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But written in a crude and confused style.

Als ich damals die deutsche Übersetzung zuerst gelesen habe, dachte ich noch, dass es eine unterirdische Leistung des Übersetzers sei.
Ich muss Abbitte leisten!
Die Schuld liegt voll und ganz beim Original.
Es gibt keinen Handlungsbogen, das ganze liest sich wie ein Fiebertraum.
Und das obwohl die zugrundeliegende Geschichte wunderschön und episch ist.

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