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The Planet Savers
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In 'The Planet Savers' Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced the world to her amazing Darkover series. A disease threatens all of Darkover and the only man that can save Darkover has a multiple personality disorder. He is two distinct men, but two men who hate one another and vie for possession of their one body. But to save Darkover they must work together.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley is the creator of the popular Darkover universe, as well as the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling ‘The Mists of Avalon’ and its sequel, ‘The Forest House’. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5i don't know how many readers are "left" for this book - it & its author have not aged easily for anyone it seems - I "read" the audio book edition which may have made the dual personalities of the protagonist feel awfully contrived to support the rest ? Perhaps a story like this that hinges on notions of difference may need more than one voice actor to do its characters justice ?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Early part of the Darkover series. I'm not the biggest fan of this kind of handwaving-sf that veers off into fantasy (for example, when it comes to the psychic faculties of the Hasturs), but I liked how MZB set up the main character here. The changes in POV are stylistically interesting, and the split personality theme was well done. Just a pity that in the short novella format so many other themes like racism and the hegemony of men was only touched upon, and the ending war far too rushed. I would've wanted a bit more struggle to reconcile those two personalities instead of that kitschy reunion with Kyla.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book contains a long short story, or a short novella, and a short story.The longer one, The Planet Savers is based around Trailman Disease and seeking a cure. There is a longer book that covers the same issue at the same time in a lot more depth. it would also be easy to dismiss this story as a simple boy meets girl, overcomes the challenges and they all live happily every after. There would be merit in that. The thing that raises this up to 4 stars is that the challenges are very interesting, awkward and nicely handled.The short story is rather predictable unfortunately. It's not bad, but it's entirely unsurprising and missable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've decided to tackle Zimmer Bradley's Darkover novels, and after reading about them have decided to go chronologically in order of publication. The author has stated that the books aren't designed to require reading in a particular order, but at least this way I'll have a methodical way to tick them off as I go. Anyway, this very short novel introduced me to the planet Darkover and its bifurcated population. In this book, a man journeys to the home of the Trailmen, who do not normally welcome his kind. He hopes to obtain the cure to a disease ravaging a segment of Darkover's population. The story deals (a bit too much) with this man's personality, in what I thought was a silly contrivance concerning his "true" identity -- I don't want to put a spoiler in here so I won't say more. Still, I suspended disbelief and enjoyed reading the book. There were some well done scenes of tension and suspense as our protagonist journeys to the Trailmen's home. Darkover is set up as an interesting and complex world, and I look forward to finding out how the author develops it in her subsequent work.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A quick read, and a good introduction to the world of ''Darkover''.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm a fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley, but my affection for her rests not on the Avalon books, which I didn't care for, but her Darkover series. Darkover is a "lost colony" of Earth that falls into a medieval society. Ruled by a psychic aristocracy it is later rediscovered by a star-spanning high-tech human federation after centuries, giving the series a feel of both science fiction and fantasy. The series as a whole features strong female characters, but it has enough swashbuckling adventure to draw the male of the species, and indeed this series was recommended to me by a guy (when we were in high school!)Although some books are loosely connected, having characters in common, they were written to be read independently and were written out of sequence. Part of the difficulty of knowing what to read, and in what order to read comes from that. The Planet Savers (1962) is one of the earliest novels MZB ever published, one of the first two published in the Darkover series, even though chronologically in the series it came late. The Planet Savers is short and entertaining, but barely indicates the potential of the series at its best. You get more a glimpse of that in the included short story, "The Waterfall," written about 15 years after The Planet Savers, after Marion Zimmer Bradley had greatly improved as a writer. As a Darkover fan, I'm happy to have The Planet Savers and "The Waterfall," but by no means is this the place to start reading the series and this is among MZB's weakest novels and not representative of the series at its best. I'd start instead with The Shattered Chain or Forbidden Tower or Heritage of Hastur.
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The Planet Savers - Marion Zimmer Bradley
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