Set during the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of the Seven Domains of Darkover ruthlessly inbred their psychic offspring to gain powerful and fearsome talents, two young women are born with "wild" psychic gifts. These stories, one tragic and one triumphant, combine to give the reader a vivid and poignant picture of a devastating time period in the history of this fantastic world.

Les âges du chaos

Fangs of the Wolf WorldAcross half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious world have turned against their own people and sided with the men of Terra; not from fear, but from a sense of dedication.There has never been open war. The battle for these worlds is fought in the minds of a few men who stand between worlds; bound to one world by interest, loyalties and allegiance; bound to the other by love.Such a world is Wolf. Such a man was Race Cargill of the Terran Secret Service…At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory.But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he'd sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terran Headquarters, cut off there ever since he and a rival had scarred and ripped each other in blood-feud.But when The Door Through Space swung suddenly open, the feud was on again—and with it a plot designed to check and destroy the Terran Empire.

Les Voix De L'espace

"Il y avait du sang sur la lune. Mince et frêle, la princesse Pamina se tenait sur le balcon et regardait avec effroi le nuage cramoisi glissant sur l'astre de la nuit. Elle n'avait jamais vu un tel phénomène. Tout en bas dans la ville, cette tache inquiétante se détachait dans l'obscurité. La jeune fille entendait également un bruit assourdi, sorte de plainte étouffée venant de très loin, rumeur de panique sans doute de ceux qui observaient comme elle dans le ciel la souillure tragique. Ayant elle aussi envie de gémir, Pamina tomba à genoux en étouffant un cri de terreur"...

La princesse de la nuit

Darkover—planet of the Bloody Sun, world of legend and mystery, the long-lost Terran colony where an ancient power has awakened humans to their own hidden talents of laran, that special magic through which those gifted enough can communicate directly mind to mind, call up fire, even link their thoughts to control bird and beast.Set in the age of The Hundred Kingdoms, The Heirs of Hammerfell takes place in a time of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflicts into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. Focusing on a devastating clan feud between two of these realms—Hammerfell and Storn—a feud which has seen the land soaked red with blood for countless generations. But now Storn has struck what may prove Hammerfell’s death stroke, setting the ancestral castle ablaze, slaying its lord, and sending its lady fleeing into the night with her twin infant sons, Alastair and Conn.Conn is separated from his mother and lost to her on that fateful night, but she and Alastair find sanctuary in Thendara City, among the wealthy and the laran-gifted, keeping the memory of Hammerfell alive with them in exile. Yet Conn, too, survives, rescued by a loyal servant and raised in secret among those who would see the might of Storn overthrown and the banner of Hammerfell flying proudly high once again.But it is not until Conn’s laran manifests that the fates of the twins are finally, inextricably linked in a pattern which could bring a new beginning or total ruin to Hammerfell and its heirs…

Les Héritiers D'hammerfell

L'inoubliable saga des Dames du Lac, prolongée dans Les Brumes d'Avalon, nous faisait revivre l'histoire du roi Arthur, depuis sa naissance sous l'égide de Merlin jusqu'à la mort du roi-héros et à sa mystérieuse translation dans l'île d'Avalon. À la fois finale et prologue de cette vaste épopée, ce volume nous ramène aux sources de la légende.En ce temps-là, les légions de Rome prennent pied sur le sol de. Grande-Bretagne. Face à elles, un peuple farouche et désuni va se forger une âme commune dans une lutte de plusieurs siècles. Cependant, réfugiés sur l'île sacrée, invisible derrière sa ceinture de brumes, Druides et Prêtresses vont gouverner le cours de cette histoire sanglante.Comment Dierna, Viviane, Caillean vont préparer l'avènement du roi Arthur; comment la Reine des fées va leur prêter son concours; quelles paroles prophétiques Merlin prononcera-t-il aux frontières du Pays d'Eté : tels sont les secrets révélés dans cet envoûtant récit, enraciné aux confins de la Magie et de l'Histoire...

Le Secret d'Avalon (Les Dames du Lac, #3)

This long unavailable novel by Bradley, the bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon, and her brother, a well-known science fiction author in his own right, tells the story of the Hunters--fierce killers and shapechangers who promise fabulous wealth to any opponents who can survive being hunted by them for the time between two eclipses of the Red Moon. Reissue.

Chasses sur la Lune Rouge: unité t1

This book contains short stories from the English-language Darkover anthologies. For more information, see this page.Dans un monde perdu parcouru par des vents fantômes qui apportent avec eux d'étranges pollens, capables d'allumer le désir et de féconder les ventres...

Le Cycle des légendes

Ellemir et Callista, les soeurs jumelles, épousent les deux vainqueurs des hommes-chats : Damon et le terrien Andrew. C'est l'heureuse conclusion d'une aventure et le début d'une double malédiction : l'union consanguine d'Ellemir et de Damon est menacée de stérilité ; Callista, destinée à devenir Gardienne de la tour d'Arilinn, a été si bien conditionnée qu'Andrew ne peut pas l'approcher. Tous quatre sont télépathes, ce qui devrait faciliter leur entraide. Mais la règle est très stricte : on n'utilise pas les pouvoirs psi pour changer le destin, sauf dans les Tours. Alors pourquoi ne pas défier la coutume et bâtir sa propre Tour ?Marion Zimmer Bradley, l'auteur des Dames du Lac, est aussi célèbre pour son grand cycle Ténébreuse. Sept familles vivent sur la planète, chacune possède un pouvoir particulier. Pour ceux qui ont le don d'empathie, ce n'est pas toujours facile à porter...

La Romance de Ténébreuse - tome 11

How do you make a spaceman? You start the same way that you start to make a chess master, a ballet dancer, a trapeze performer, or any other difficult and complex task demanding highly trained and concentrated skills, physical or mental; you start when the future professionals are too young to know whether that is what they want out of life, or not. United Nations Expeditionary Planetary Survey-UNEPS-starts every year with one hundred five-year-olds, discovered, in early testing, to be both mentally and physically superior. Twelve years later the best graduates of the Academy are given a Ship and sent out to find habitable planets for humans to live on. But what happens to a small crew of teenagers once the Ship leaves Earth?

Les âges du chaos

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