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Darkover Landfall
Darkover (Related to this series)
- Author
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Narrator
- Max Bellmore
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 5 January 2018
- Run Time
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction, Fantasy
What to expect
The colony ship from Earth had been on its way to the Coronis colony—a flourishing mining settlement—where crews of engineers and technicians had been working for ten years preparing the planet for settlement and studying its ecology. But disaster had struck. Thrown off course by a gravitational storm, the ship had lost its orientation equipment in the first shock and been forced to locate the nearest star system with a potentially habitable planet and try to land. One-third of the crew had been killed in the crash, and the ship had been critically damaged. But the remaining colonists still entertained the hope of repair and escape from the cold but beautiful planet with the huge red sun and four moons. Until the ghost wind, carrying psychedelic pollen, started to blow, and Darkover’s aboriginal race claimed them for their own. …
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- Author
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Narrator
- Max Bellmore
- Duration
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9781501970870
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Science fiction, Fantasy
Synopsis
The colony ship from Earth had been on its way to the Coronis colony—a flourishing mining settlement—where crews of engineers and technicians had been working for ten years preparing the planet for settlement and studying its ecology. But disaster had struck. Thrown off course by a gravitational storm, the ship had lost its orientation equipment in the first shock and been forced to locate the nearest star system with a potentially habitable planet and try to land. One-third of the crew had been killed in the crash, and the ship had been critically damaged. But the remaining colonists still entertained the hope of repair and escape from the cold but beautiful planet with the huge red sun and four moons. Until the ghost wind, carrying psychedelic pollen, started to blow, and Darkover’s aboriginal race claimed them for their own. …
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