Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover - Ages of Chaos 1 - Stormqu

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Stormqueen! - Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover - Ages of Chaos 01

STORMQUEEN!

Marion Zimmer Bradley

ages of chaos 01 - a novel of darkover

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Stormqueen! - Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover - Ages of Chaos 01

DAW BOOKS, INC.

DONALD A. WOLLHEIM, PUBLISHER

1301 Avenue of the Americas

New York, N. Y. 10019

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BRADLEY

Cover art by Michael Whelan

FIRST PRINTING, JUNE 1978

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

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DEDICATION

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!

—MZB

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Stormqueen! - Marion Zimmer Bradley - Darkover - Ages of Chaos 01

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

Ever since the third or fourth of the Darkover novels, my

surprisingly faithful readers have been writing in to me, asking, in

essence, “Why don’t you write a novel about the Ages of Chaos?”

For a long time I demurred, hesitating to do this; to me the essence

of the Darkover novels seemed to be just this—the clash of cultures

between Darkovan and Terran. If I had acceded to their request to

write about a time “before the coming of the Terrans,” it seemed to

me, the very essence of the Darkover novels would have been

removed, and what remained would be very much like any of a

thousand other science-fantasy novels dealing with alien worlds

where people have alien powers and alien concerns.

It was my readers who finally persuaded me to attempt this. If every

reader who actually writes to an author represents only a hundred

who do not (and I am told the figure is higher than this) there must

be, by now, several thousand readers out there who are interested

and curious about the time known as the Ages of Chaos; the time

before the Comyn had firmly established an alliance of their seven

Great Houses to rule over the Domains; and also the height of the

Towers, and of that curious technology known then as “starstone”

and later becoming the science of matrix mechanics.

Readers of The Forbidden Tower will want to know that

Stormqueen deals with a time before Varzil, Keeper of Neskaya,

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known as “the Good,” perfected the techniques allowing women to

serve as Keepers in the Towers of the Comyn.

In The Shattered Chain, Lady Rohana says;

“There was a time in the history of the Comyn when we did

selective breeding to fix these gifts in our racial heritage; it was a

time of great tyranny, and not a time we are very proud to

remember.”

This is a story of the men and women who lived under that tyranny,

and how it affected their lives, and the lives of those who came after

them on Darkover.

—MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

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STORMQUEEN!

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CHAPTER ONE

^ »

The storm was wrong somehow.

That was the only way Donal could think of it… wrong somehow. It

was high summer in the mountains called the Hellers, and there

should have been no storms except for the never-ending snow

flurries on the far heights above the timberline, and the rare savage

thunderstorms that swooped down across the valleys, bouncing

from peak to peak and leaving flattened trees and sometimes fire in

the path of their lightnings.

Yet, though the sky was blue and cloudless, thunder crackled low in

the distance, and the very air seemed filled with the tension of a

storm. Donal crouched on the heights of the battlement, stroking

with one finger the hawk cradled in the curve of his arm, crooning

half-absently to the restless bird. It was the storm in the air, the

electric tension, he knew, which was frightening the hawk. He

should never have taken it from the mews today—it would serve

him right if the old hawkmaster beat him, and a year ago he would

probably have done so without much thought. But now things were

different. Donal was only ten, but there had been many changes in

his short life. And this was one of the most drastic, that within the

change of a few moons hawkmaster and tutors and grooms now

called him—not that-brat-Donal, with cuffs and pinches and even

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