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The Keeper's Price [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Elisabeth Waters
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 It is a great honor to be a Keeper of Arilinn and lead a circle of magic-workers, but the price can be higher than you ever dreamed. (Published: 1980)
Words: 5082 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Alton Gift [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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The "gift" of the Alton family has been notorious for centuries. But how did it first develop? (Published: 1980)
Words: 821 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Fantasy
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A Capella [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Everyone has at least one talent--but sometimes it's not what they think it is. (Published: 1994)
Words: 4835 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Child of the Heart [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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The Oath of the Free Amazons requires a Renunciate to send any son she bears away to be fostered, but what does giving up her child do to the mother--or to the son? (Published: 1985)
Words: 1656 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Firetrap [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Elisabeth Waters
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Things that happen while you're out of your body don't have any effect on your physical body--or do they? (Published: 1990)
Words: 3301 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Sin Catenas [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Wives are supposed to obey their hubands, and children their parents--but shouldn't there be a limit somewhere? (Published: 1988)
Words: 3315 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Meeting of Minds [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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The MacAran gift is rapport with animals. Sometimes this gift is useful, sometimes it's a nuisance, and sometimes it's just plain strange... (Published: 1991)
Words: 567 - Reading Time: 1-2 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Kihar [Darkover Series]
by Vera Nazarian
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This story investigates a really unusual use of laran and that untranslatable concept of kihar - which does not mean precisely pride, nor even integrity, but partakes of both. (Published: 1987)
Words: 7574 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Destined for the Tower [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters & Deborah Wheeler
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There is more than one "fate worse than death"--and more than one way to avoid it. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4469 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Rebirth [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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After reading Leslie Williams's story of a trapped sorcerer, "Escape," during the editing of Sword of Chaos, Elisabeth Waters promptly provided this sequel to it ... "So I could sleep at night," she commented. (Published: 1982)
Words: 404 - Reading Time: 1-1 min.
Category: Fantasy
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A Proper Escort [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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When MZB was editing the Darkover anthologies, she got a lot of stories on "Subject A: a Free Amazon meets a man she can trust" and "Subject B: Dyan Ardais meets a woman he can trust." After a few years of listening to MZB grumble, Lisa carried out her threat and wrote Subject AB: Dyan Ardais and the Free Amazon. (Published: 1991)
Words: 2655 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Playfellow [Darkover]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Hilary Castamir had a little trouble adjusting to life at Arilinn Tower. Many children have imaginary friends, but Hilary's wasn't imaginary. (Published: 1987)
Words: 3588 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Dance for Darkover [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
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Mocking tradition? Or showing the best side of Darkover to the rest of the Empire? (Published: 1991)
Words: 7028 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Midwife [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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Sometimes a career path can lead through the Hellers, complete with an unanticipated detour. (Published: 1985)
Words: 3758 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Blood Will Tell [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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What is the good of being in an alien world in a civilized Empire if you keep the provincial spirit and customs of your backwater? (Published: 1980)
Words: 6502 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Fantasy
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To Keep the Oath [Darkover Series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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I could teach them this. But the laws of our charter prevent me and I am bound by oath to obey those laws; laws made, not by our own Guild-mothers, but by men who fear what we might have to say to their women! (Published: 1979)
Words: 10300 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Danila's Song [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
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More and more, he was becoming a bitter introvert. And this process, the leronis at Serrais had said, was almost surely irrevocable. It came as a direct result of what he had gone through, both physically and psychologically, during the horror of the fire ... (Published: 1991)
Words: 5723 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Midsummer Night's Gift [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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In the magic of a summer night forest, a Free Amazon must choose between desire and duty. (Published: 1991)
Words: 3637 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Different Kind of Courage [Darkover Series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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It takes a lot of courage to be a Free Amazon, but does that mean you absolutely must be a swordswoman? (Published: 1985)
Words: 5879 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Wasteland [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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Rorie had been taught that his laran was flawed and useless, but it would take a different kind of talent to survive the haunted Tower. (Published: 1987)
Words: 6030 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Death of Brendon Ensolare [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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A cadet pranks turns disastrous when the imaginary comrade takes on a life--and death--of his own. (Published: 1988)
Words: 7741 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Jackal [Darkover Series]
by Vera Nazarian
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The curse on Harksell Keep affected more than just its lord. (Published: 1988)
Words: 8470 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Object Lesson [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Varzil the Good has put an end to the laran wars, and peace has come to the land--unless you're planning to combine the Sisterhood of the Sword and the Priestesses of Avarra and establish the first Guildhouse for the Free Amazons. Tayksa n'ha Elayna and her partner Deena know that's bound to require at least one fight. (Published: 1990)
Words: 3555 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Acurrhir Todo; Nada Perdonad [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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Bitterness can run so deep that not even death stands in the way of revenge. (Published: 1990)
Words: 5358 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Set a Thief [Darkover series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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The Compact prohibits any weapon "beyond the arms' reach of the one who uses it." So, are arrows lawful? Varzil may not like it, but Tayksa n'ha Elayna thinks this is a valid question. And he needs her help; someone is trying to kill him. (Published: 1991)
Words: 4985 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Cradle of Lies [Darkover series]
by Deborah Wheeler
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