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Darkover: First Contact (Darkover Omnibus #6)
This omnibus features two classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels-Darkover Landfall and Two to Conquer-in one volume for the first time.
Paperback, omnibus, 528 pages
Published
September 7th 2004
by DAW
(first published September 1st 2004)
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I kind of want to give this a 1.5. Ugh, so many wall-banging moments. The crowning moment of wallbanging was probably when one of the female characters (in the second book, Two to Conquer) said that even though she was compelled to come to a male character's room and have sex with him, it somehow wasn't rape. Because even though she didn't want it, she didn't resist except to say "no"? The most charitable interpretation of these books is that naturally the descendants of a culture ...more
If I could, I would give this omnibus a 3.5. I thought the first story was excellent, the second, less so. At the same time, that one section in the last third of the story where Bard finally gets his comeuppance (anyone who's read this will know what I mean) is one of the most disgusting, frightening passages I have ever read, and is a lot of what makes (in my opinion) the story worth it.
A kooky love story about the first contact with another society that parralels ours. Very funny.
I liked the first book immensely, but was confused by the second. Then I figured out why - I had read them out of order! What publisher makes omnibuses and puts them out of order?!?
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Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex magazine in 1952. In 1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in...more
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