Walter H. Breen (1928–1993)

Encyclopedia of Darkover. Very handy. No maps. Family trees. Covers a limited number of books including Darkover Landfall, Spell Sword, Shattered Chain, Sword of Adones, World Wreckers. Does not cover Storm Queen or other major favorites, so like all books of its kind, when you go looking for something specific of interest to the reader...it is the one missing piece of information. Still, very handy and interesting.

Written by Walter Breen. Best-selling science fiction writer Marion Zimmer Bradley married Walter Breen, a famous coin collector and noted paedophile author, who molested young boys all his life. Bradley knew all about Breen’s sexual relationship with fourteen-year-old Glen Frendel in 1964, the year that they were married. Over the next twenty five years, as Breen promoted sex with children, she turned a blind eye to his abuse of boy after boy. The couple even tried to adopt one of the show more boys. Breen eventually died in prison, having been convicted of molesting twelve-year-old Ken Smith, a friend of the family. The boy told his parents after four years of abuse. show less