hadn't realised how far behind i'd got with darkover, and ordered the ones i'd not stocked, nor ever seen on sale "since i.m.t": i must stop doing series listings of authors & series i've liked - it's expensive!
daw books near-identical first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition
cover art & b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (cover credited, both signed: b+w with his "jg" monogram)
near-meaningless daw books number 36
cover price 95¢
160pp. including titles, indicia etc.
refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed.
no priority established nor liable to be, both bear first printing, month & year date.
third printing (9/1976 from locus #194) and canadadian-carcassed fourth printing (9/1976 from jaffery) have new cover art by george barr, cover price $1.25, cat# UY1256.
george barr's cover art is retained through at least the twentieth daw books mmpb printing.
darkover novel #1 (by internal chronology):
not the first-written by a long way:
the darkover series:
#0: "marion zimmer bradley's darkover" (1993), q.v.
mixed reprint and some original darkover material collection, including stories and non-fiction articles.
#1: "darkover landfall" (1972) (this novel)
#2: "storm queen!" (1978), q.v.
#3°: "thunderlord" deborah j. ross, marion zimmer bradley (sequel to "storm queen" written by deborah j. ross from notes & title by mzb) (2016), q.v.
#4: "hawkmistress!" (1982), q.v.
#5: "two to conquer" (1980), q.v.
#6: "the heirs of hammerfell" (1989), q.v.
#7°: "the fall of neskaya" with deborah j. ross (2001), q.v.
#8°: "zandru's forge" with deborah j. ross (2003), q.v.
#9°: "a flame in hali" with deborah j. ross (2004), q.v.
#10: "the shattered chain" (1976), q.v.
#11: "thendara house" (with acknowledgement to jacqueline lichtenberg) (1983), q.v.
#12: "city of sorcery" (1984), q.v.
#13: "rediscovery" with mercedes lackey (1993), q.v.
#14: "the spell sword" (1974), q.v.
#15: "the forbidden tower" (1977), q.v.
#16: "star of danger" (1965), q.v.
#17: "the winds of darkover" (1970), q.v.
#18: "the bloody sun" (1964), q.v.
#18a: "the bloody sun (revised)" (1979), q.v.
#19: "the heritage of hastur" (1975), q.v.
#20: "the sword of aldones" (1962), q.v.
#21: "the planet savers" (1958), q.v
#22: "sharra's exile" (1981), q.v.
#23: "the world wreckers" (1971), q.v.
#24: "hastur lord" with deborah j. ross (2010), q.v.
#25°: "exile's song" with adrienne martine-barnes (1996), q.v.
#26°: "the shadow matrix" with adrienne martine-barnes (1997), q.v.
#27°: "traitor's sun" with adrienne martine-barnes (1999), q.v.
#28°: "the alton gift" with deborah j. ross (2007), q.v.
#29°: "the children of darkover" with deborah j. ross (2013), q.v.
° - i've not read most of the darkover books first published from 1996 on (save "hastur lord"), so i'm not truly competent to assign #25-#29 definite places in the series chronology: informed advice welcome.
- thank-you. ppint.
the friends of darkover original anthologies edited by marion zimmer bradley:
(i think all contain at least one work by mzb, as well as her introductions to the darkover stories she chose - and often encouraged - from the friends of darkover.)
first two of these bear " and other stories" in their complete titles as per their title pages, though not upon front covers or spines.
#a: "the keeper's price" (1980), q.v.
#b: "sword of chaos" (1982), q.v.
#c: "free amazons of darkover" (1985), q.v.
#d: "the other side of the mirror" (1987), q.v.
#e: "red sun of darkover" (1987), q.v.
#f: "four moons of darkover" (1988), q.v.
#g: "domains of darkover" (1990), q.v.
#h: "renunciates of darkover" (1991), q.v.
#i: "leroni of darkover" (1991), q.v.
#j: "towers of darkover" (1993), q.v.
#k: "snows of darkover" (1994), q.v.
last published in mmpb by daw books
marion zimmer bradley died 25/9/1999.
#l: "music of darkover" edited by elisabeth waters (2013)
#m: "stars of darkover" eds. deborah j. ross & elisabeth waters (2014)
#n: "gifts of darkover" ed. deborah j. ross (2015)
#o: "realms of darkover" ed. deborah j. ross (2016)
#p: "masques of darkover" ed. deborah j. ross (2017)
#q: "crossroads of da
Reviewalthough this is the first novel by internal chronology, it is not a good place to start reading the darkover stories, as the unique darkovan neo-medieval society with a nobility based upon the laran abilities the families have selectively bred to defend themselves and their clients has not even started to develop.
reading "landfall", therefore, is best left until after one's image of the world, and the comyn-dominated society of the classic period, has become well-enough established for the events immediately surrounding the inadvertent forced human colonisation of what is fundamentally an only marginally suitable planet to have become a matter of interest. (this review is from another edition of this book)
hutchinson publishing group arrow books p/b first printing, first uk edition
cover art by melvyn grant (signed "melvyn", uncredited)
cover price 80p, $2.70 australia, $2.50 canada
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
- or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
160pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)
the general design of this reprint's cover is identical with that of the then-forthcoming arrow books' editions published in their imminent new "legend" relaunched sf & f series, later to become an imprint in its own right, but n.b. it bears neither the legend series name, nor the legend logo. (this comment is from another edition of this book)