TODAY I AM A DARKOVER BOOK

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[jeriendhal]

Aaaaand I'm so glad I never picked these books up. Of course now I'm going to keep imagining them having incestous relationships with McCaffrey's Pern books. :)

[dragoness_e]

I enjoyed MZB's Darkover in college. Of course, back then any sub-text went "swoosh!" over my head. What pissed me off, however, was inconsistent characterization from book to book, particularly of minor characters. Relatively nice supporting character Y, would, for no explicable reason, turn into frothing villain Y in another novel.

[sanj]

PERFECT. Well, plus the Awesome Separatist Commune Where We Invent Feminism, Which Has Strangely Not Been Invented By the People in the Spaceships.

[jeffreyab]

You left out the hermaphrodites and the Dry Towners and the Ya Men and Port Chicago on the part of Darkover that never gets mentioned which is everything to the north of the Wall Around the World.

I stopped reading them in the late 70's they seemed to have changed a bit since then.

[archangelbeth]

The Dry Towners are totally recycled from a prior book of hers which is now available on Project Gutenberg: The Door Through Space.

Totally. Recycled. Entirely.

[jeffreyab]

Thanks for the link I like her early stuff.

[azurelunatic]

*giggle*

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