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During the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their laran-gifted offspring to gain powerful talents, a baby was born to the lord of Aldaran. This child, born on a dark and thunder-filled night, was possessed of a terrifying and uncontrolled talent: Dorilys, heiress to her father's domain, could unwittingly call forth lightning, even while still a fretful child. Fearful for his daughter's life and the safety of his domain, Lord Aldaran sent to a tower for help. But even the powers of a trained monitor and a Hastur lord might not be enough to save this painfully afflicted and deadly young woman.… (more)
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Quite liked this, never having read a Darkover book before. She doesnt fall into the trap of making up words and then spending paragraphs explaining them, or naming characters with multiple apostropies.[return][return]Story is about families who are bred for their psychic ability, and the resultant woman with control over storms
  nordie | Oct 14, 2023 |
Lots of plot elements, two sets of brothers one of whom is full of bad will, several tangled loves. A 1978 book which handles an arms race from horrified viewers, to involved technicians, to greedy users. And looks at women’s issues with a strange sappy do anything for love sensibility that is off from the more feminist notes. ( )
  quondame | Dec 31, 2017 |
Good story, complex characters. I like the Darkover world already, so it's no surprise that i enjoyed this book. Recommended to fantasy fans. ( )
1 vote ktlavender | Jul 17, 2017 |
One of the best of the Darkover novels I've read. Less angsty and gloomy than a lot of them. ( )
1 vote broccolima | Jan 26, 2014 |
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eine des orages offre un tableau intéressant du fonctionnement de la haute société de Ténébreuse où la politique est omniprésente. C'est aussi là que les pouvoirs psy sont les plus présents et les plus déterminants dans le déroulement de l'intrigue. L'atmosphère y est très « fantasy », le laran servant un peu à tout et n'importe quoi, du guidage des planeurs à la création d'armes de guerres en passant par la construction de châteaux. Par contre, l'intrigue et la psychologie des personnages ne se distinguent pas par une grande originalité. Reine des orages est parfois bavard, avec quelques lenteurs autour des états d'âme prévisibles de héros très stéréotypés et assez manichéens.

On peut également regretter, pour la cohérence globale du cycle, l'absence d'un tome intermédiaire, qui fasse la liaison entre la Planète aux vents de folie et Reine des orages. On se trouve brusquement plongé dans l'adolescence de Ténébreuse sans avoir rien vu de son enfance. Les origines sont déjà des mythes, avec des personnages légendaires comme Hastur et Cassilda. Ce hiatus brutal peut désarçonner un lecteur qui lit ces deux romans d'affilée.
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Que dire d'autre, sinon que vous n'en sortirez pas indemnes ?
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To Catherine L. Moore First Lady of Science Fiction.
I have ceased, I hope, the imitation which is said to be the sincerest form of flattery. I shall never outgrow, I hope, the desire to emulate; nor the admiration , the affection, and the inspiration which she has created in every woman who writes science fiction and fantasy - and in most of the men, too!
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The storm was wrong somehow.
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During the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their laran-gifted offspring to gain powerful talents, a baby was born to the lord of Aldaran. This child, born on a dark and thunder-filled night, was possessed of a terrifying and uncontrolled talent: Dorilys, heiress to her father's domain, could unwittingly call forth lightning, even while still a fretful child. Fearful for his daughter's life and the safety of his domain, Lord Aldaran sent to a tower for help. But even the powers of a trained monitor and a Hastur lord might not be enough to save this painfully afflicted and deadly young woman.

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    THE MATRIX WARS

the great epic of the world beneath the Bloody Sun known as Darkover did not begin with the coming of the Terrans.
It began far earlier, during the dark days of the civilization that came to be known as The Ages of Chaos.
For in those years the pwoer of the matrix was first learned - and misused in a power struggle between the rising Domains. that mental-physical force created a technology that threatened to make Darkover into a frightening duplicate of all that was bad in far-off Terra.


This is the first novel of the days when the matrix was in the hands of ambitious men, when genetic tampering was producing prodigies and wielders of strange powers, as well as psi monsters, and when the heir of hte Hasturs met his destiny in the persons of the witch-woman he loved and the mutant girl-child he had pledged to protect.
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