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Audiobooks by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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When Max inexplicably gains paranormal abilities, his world is turned upside down. Suddenly gifted with telekinetic powers allowing him to control matter and energy, Max revels in his newfound talents. But he soon realizes the vast scope of his abilities is beyond his capacity to handle. As Max grapples for control amidst chaos, his grip on reality begins to slip. When his girlfriend Fran witnesses his spiraling descent into madness, she becomes the only anchor tying him to the rational world. Will her love be enough to pull him back from the brink?
Marion Zimmer Bradley was an American author and feminist activist born in 1930 in Albany, New York. She is best known for her work in the science fiction and fantasy genres, including the Darkover series, which she began writing in the 1950s.
One of Bradley's lesser-known works is the novel 'The Door Through Space,' which was first published in 1961. The novel is a classic space adventure story that follows the exploits of a mercenary named Richard Ashe, who is hired to investigate the disappearance of a spaceship.
Ashe is sent to the planet Wolf, where he discovers a mysterious gateway known as the 'Door through Space.' The Door is said to lead to a mythical world known as the 'Forbidden Planet,' where ancient and powerful aliens are said to reside. Ashe must navigate treacherous alien terrain, outwit dangerous adversaries, and confront his own demons in order to unravel the mystery of the Door and the secrets it holds.
One of the most interesting aspects of 'The Door Through Space' is its portrayal of gender roles and power dynamics. Bradley was a vocal feminist and many of her works explore themes of gender equality and social justice. In 'The Door Through Space,' the powerful aliens who control the Door are all women, who use their telepathic powers to control and manipulate the men around them.
Ashe himself is a complex character, who is torn between his loyalty to his male employers and his growing admiration for the powerful women he encounters on his journey. The novel also features several strong female characters, including Kyla, a fierce warrior who becomes Ashe's ally, and Zulena, the powerful alien queen who holds the key to the Door's secrets.
Overall, 'The Door Through Space' is a thrilling and thought-provoking work of science fiction that showcases Marion Zimmer Bradley's talent for world-building and character development.
When a bandit gang seizes High Windward, holding the Storn family hostage, the laran powers of the oldest son Loran are the family's only hope. Reaching out with those powers, he finds a young Terran, Dan Barron, and "overshadows" his mind, sending him on a desperate rescue mission to Aldaran Castle. But the "help" that the powerful Aldaran family offers may be far more dangerous than any bandit. For what they offer is use of the terrible Sharra Matrix-dreaded weapon of the Ages of Chaos.
Jeff Kerwin spent the first decade of his life in the Spacemen's Orphanage in the Terran Trade City on Darkover. Yet he never felt that he belonged. When Jeff is shipped back to Earth at the age of 12, he becomes haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran oasis that had once been his. He is convinced that only on Darkover can he discover his true identity. Now an adult, Jeff finally returns to Darkover as a member of the Terran Spaceforce. Still, he feels out of place. Despite being mistaken for a member of the Comyn aristocracy with his red hair and possession of a powerful matrix jewel, he has no memory of how he acquired such things. If only he could learn the secrets of the Towers, perhaps then he could hope to solve the mystery of his heritage.
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. ...
Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored ... and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew Carr there was an attraction he could not evade. Darkover drew him, Darkover haunted him-and when his mapping plane crashed in unknown heights, Darkover prepared to destroy him. Until the planet's magic asserted itself-and his destiny began to unfold along lines predicted only by phantoms and wonder workers of the kind Terran science could never acknowledge.
Originally published in 1965, Star of Danger lays the groundwork for the classic, bestselling Darkover series. The Darkovans are descendants of a long-lost Terran colony ship and distrust the Terrans, who have taken up residence on their planet, fearing these strangers intend to disrupt the Darkover society. Many Terrans do feel that the people of Darkover should abandon their "backward" culture and join the Terran Empire. Despite this mutual prejudice, Terran Larry Montray and Darkovan Kennard Alton forge a bond of friendship, allowing Larry to be one of the few Terrans to ever observe Darkovan life and customs firsthand. But Larry gets more than he bargained for as he finds himself in the midst of an ancient feud fought by unknown beings, deadly beasts, and alien intelligences. When Larry and Kennard are forced to combine Darkover matrix magic with Terran technology to stand against a common enemy, their alliance challenges the fate of both their cultures.
Planetary Investments Unlimited-that was the company's official name, but unofficially it was known as Worldwreckers, Inc. For a fee, its agent would infiltrate any world unwilling to give up its independence, and do enough damage that the natives would be forced to allow Terran investors to step in and salvage their planet. And now, once again, its agents were at work. In the 78 years since the planet Cottman IV-called Darkover by its natives-was rediscovered by the Terran Empire, all efforts to colonize and industrialize this exotic world had failed. And the person in charge of Worldwreckers, Inc.-a centuries-old being who appeared to be a woman-had decided to take on this particular assignment herself. After all, she had special insight into this world, for long ago-lifetimes ago-she had called Darkover home. ...
While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.
After the flaming final days of the Ages of Chaos, when the Keeper known as Varzil the Good struggled to bring peace to the warring Hundred Kingdoms through a law called the Compact, there were still those who fought against him for their own ends. And Bard Di Asturian, the outlaw known as The Wolf of the Kilghard Hills, would go to any extreme to bring all those near him under his brutal sway. When matrix magic enables him to bring his double-an Earthman named Paul Harrell-through the vast reaches of space to Darkover, he feels he will now be invulnerable. But will his equally brutal doppelganger be the man to finally teach him the cost of violence?
In this book of the Darkover series, four challengers rise up to defy the matrix guardians. Callista leaves the Keepers to marry Andrew Carr, and her twin sister, Ellemir, marries Damon Ridenow, creating a shared four-way bond. But the Keepers have tampered with Callista's channels, and the foursome must navigate a tangled web of love, time travel, and prophetic dreams to challenge all the old traditions as they fight for a future of their choosing.
The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Age of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody Sun. The Sharra had been exiled off-planet among the far stars of the Terran Empire in the custody of Lew Alton ... until he found himself called back to his homeworld to contest his rights. But once the Sharra was back, the flaming image spread far and wide-and set in motion events that were to change the land, the domains, and the future of Darkover forever.
