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Mercedes Lackey is an American author of fantasy novels. She writes many different series, including her Valdemar novels, but also the Bardic Voices, Elemental Masters, Heirs of Alexandria, Five Hundred Kingdoms, Shadow Grail, Elves on the Road, Obsidian and several other different series. She learned her craft from Marion Zimmer Bradley and also includes C.J. […]

Darkover is a series of science fiction/fantasy novels by American author Marion Zimmer Bradley. Darkover is a planet that is habitable by humans – the only of the seven planets that orbit a red giant star known as Cottman that humans can inhabit. The humans that colonized the planet were mostly Celtic and Spanish. The […]

Marion Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction, as well as some gay & lesbian pulp fiction novels (which were controversial at the time) under various pseudonyms. Feminist views were a common theme in Bradley’s fiction. Bradley is best known for her Darkover series and to a lesser degree, […]