MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2683 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley by "Susan O'Fearna" 2) Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley by Aurora 3) RE: Marion Zimmer Bradley by "Howell, Tommy" 4) Help me please by Malkav18-+AT+-aol.com 5) Re: Help me please by Sisterbluerose 6) RE: Marion Zimmer Bradley by Alissa 7) Re: New Subjects :-) by "Kat/Perchta" 8) Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley by LunaDrkwd-+AT+-aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:03:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Susan O'Fearna" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley Message-ID: <21707706.999190992246.JavaMail.imail-+AT+-bubbles.excite.com> > I recently came into a fairly large collection of Marion > Zimmer's Bradley's Darkover novels (although not nearly > all of them!), and I wondered if anyone knew of a website > or something, or had recommendations of their own, that > might give me a clue what order to read them in: whether > there was some kind of list on line of people's favorite > ones, or whether there were strong opinions on whether to > read them chronologically within the story or chronologically > as written. Try my website: http://ofearna.net/books/bradley.html it has the chronology as written and as events happen as well as non-darkover novels. Yes Misty co-wrote ReDiscovery and it is the first book (chronologically) of the second age of the Comyn: Coming of the Terrans. She also wrote several short stories for the Darkover anthologies, go to http://ofearna.net/books/lackeyss.html for that Susan Susan _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Aurora To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley Message-ID: <20010830172925.43269.qmail-+AT+-web13502.mail.yahoo.com> I've read Rediscovery, and thought that it was good. As to an order to read them in, before MZB died, if you wrote to her magazine she'd send a list of her books sorted by internal chronological order (my term for sorting books according to what's happening within. ex. Magic's Pawn comes before Magic's Promise.), and a list sorted by when she wrote them, which is the order that she recommended that people read them in. If I can find my list, I'll post it on my webpage and let you know, if someone else doesn't beat me to it first. ^^ ~Aurora --- Layla Voll wrote: > I recently came into a fairly large collection of > Marion Zimmer's Bradley's > Darkover novels (although not nearly all of them!), > and I wondered if anyone > knew of a website or something, or had > recommendations of their own, that > might give me a clue what order to read them in: > whether there was some kind > of list on line of people's favorite ones, or > whether there were strong > opinions on whether to read them chronologically > within the story or > chronologically as written. > > To keep this on-topic -- has anyone read > "Rediscovery," which was the > Darkover novel Bradley co-wrote with Mercedes > Lackey? I'd be tempted to > start with that one, if other people enjoyed it. > And didn't she also write > some Darkover short stories? > > Layla ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Scary!" -Vash, Trigun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yah wanna get ahold of me? Try these: temarrea-+AT+-yahoo.com, goldengrove-+AT+-thekeyboard.com, wolfwood-+AT+-section2.com, icq: 126757640 or 42933669 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:45:07 -0500 From: "Howell, Tommy" To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" Subject: RE: Marion Zimmer Bradley Message-ID: <5BA8DB8D54C4D3119956009027DE50C603FE3576-+AT+-tdmnmail.tdmn.belo.com> Rediscovery is a pretty good place to start. I read "The Forbidden Tower" first which also seemed a good starting point, but then I jumped to "The Bloody Sun" which really confused me. It seemed to be further in the future in places, but the towers seemed to have lost so much knowledge in just a generation. I recommend picking a starting point in one of the "ages" as Susan has outlined and then follow that age chronologically before skipping to another age. Each Age really is completely different, but they build on each other. -----Original Message----- > I recently came into a fairly large collection of Marion > Zimmer's Bradley's Darkover novels (although not nearly > all of them!), and I wondered if anyone knew of a website > or something, or had recommendations of their own, that > might give me a clue what order to read them in: whether > there was some kind of list on line of people's favorite > ones, or whether there were strong opinions on whether to > read them chronologically within the story or chronologically > as written. Try my website: http://ofearna.net/books/bradley.html it has the chronology as written and as events happen as well as non-darkover novels. Yes Misty co-wrote ReDiscovery and it is the first book (chronologically) of the second age of the Comyn: Coming of the Terrans. She also wrote several short stories for the Darkover anthologies, go to http://ofearna.net/books/lackeyss.html for that ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:54:16 EDT From: Malkav18-+AT+-aol.com To: Subject: Help me please Message-ID: <8c.be82c0f.28c001f9-+AT+-aol.com> Ya know, I love the list and all, but with a full time job and full time school, my emails are getting out of hand... and i'm terribly sorry for lurking, so could someone please tell me how to get off the list? Thanx! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:14:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Sisterbluerose To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Help me please Message-ID: <20010830221427.3361.qmail-+AT+-web13501.mail.yahoo.com> http://www.herald.co.uk/local_info/lackey_list.html I just subscribed, but here is the link with the information. ===== What's the difference between genius and stupidity? There is an end to genius, there is no end to stupidity. My Mom Sister Blue Rose Lucinda-June Chapman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PagansforHarryPotter/join http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/NYunschoolPagans http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/uuhomeschooling School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit. ML King http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/OzSalon http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/Womanspirit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:35:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Alissa To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: RE: Marion Zimmer Bradley Message-ID: <20010830233537.21915.qmail-+AT+-web11605.mail.yahoo.com> I read Rediscovery first. Another author (Patricia Kennealy-Morrison) started at that point (people from Earth finding a lost group again) because it introduced the world to the new people as it introduced it to us, and therefore can explain specifics of that world without making the readers feel like they are getting a bunch of necessary information that didn't really go with the plot. (it was phrased much better when i read it before ) It seems like good logic to me, and that was the first book I happened to get my hands on, so I started there and that worked well. I'm normally in favor of reading things chronologically, but maybe I need to rethink that. (It took me a while to get into Misty's Gryphon books, and then when I got to Herald Mage and Arrows I was horrified that I had let them sit on my shelf for the time it took me to get all the gryphon books!) Enjoy the books! Alissa ===== "Alegria... 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Messenger http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:32:04 -0700 From: "Kat/Perchta" To: Subject: Re: New Subjects :-) Message-ID: <02da01c131d8$49847900$6b307240-+AT+-oemcomputer> > First of all I'd like to welcome all the Newbies. .Anyway, I wanted to know what everyone thought of Bardic Voices: The Lark and the Wren ?? > I'm just re-reading it now, and I'm discovering things I'd forgot about. . .Anyway, I think Rune is one of my fav NON-Valdemar characters, she's very independant and self-reliant. . .Sorry so short, but what does everyone think of The Bardic Voices Series? > Bardic Sheep to all, > ~*~ Ciara ~*~ I liked the first book, Lark & Wren the best, followed by Cast of Corbies. I never really liked the rest of them; I don't really like fantasy-style gypsies, so I didn't enjoy them as much. Also, I found the theme of Church/establishment vs. Rebels/everyone else a little too heavy in the later books, such as the... second one?? (I don't own it, so I can't remember which one is about girl gypsy and lost prince). But then, I prefer character driven plots, like the Last Herald Mage trilogy or By the Sword. ~*~cheers, Kat/Perchta~~ ~*~ momma to Rebecca, born July/00 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:30:55 EDT From: LunaDrkwd-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley Message-ID: <138.e28dd8.28c0b34f-+AT+-aol.com> --part1_138.e28dd8.28c0b34f_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Rediscovery...I really enjoyed it, it is a good collaberation. And a great sci-fi book, especially if you are a Darkover fan luna --part1_138.e28dd8.28c0b34f_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Rediscovery...I really enjoyed it, it is a good collaberation.  And a
great sci-fi book, especially if you are a Darkover fan

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