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26
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Bride Price [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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When non-telepaths marry, the two become one flesh. With telepaths, like Rohana Aillard and Gabriel Ardais, the joining may be deeper still. But if husband and wife become one mind, what happens to the survivor when one of them dies? (Published: 1987)
Words: 4079 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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42 Reader Ratings:
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27
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Carlina's Calling [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
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Carlina was a Priestess of Avarra. Jandria was a Guild-mother of the Sisterhood of the Sword. But neither order had a place for Jandria's forsworn oath-daughter and her newborn child, so Carlina and Jandria decided to found a new one, combining the features of both, to be a haven for all women who would come to them. (Published: 1991)
Words: 2816 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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28
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Carmen's Flight [Darkover series]
by Margaret L. Carter, Leslie Roy Carter
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All that Space Service Specialist Carmen Delorien planned was a short sight-seeing trip on her day off. So why was she AWOL, on a part of Darkover forbidden to offworlders, with a weapon forbidden by the Compact? (Published: 1993)
Words: 4477 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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29
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Changing Fate [Fate series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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Akila uses her wits and her shape-changing abilities to save her brother Briam when their home is besieged. But that leaves them both on the run, with Akila trying to keep them safe, while Briam finds more trouble to get into. When he is chosen as year-king in the city of Diadem, Akila struggles to save his life, finding help in the most unexpected places. (Published: 1994)
Words: 73331 - Reading Time: 209-293 min.
Category: Fantasy/Romance
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30
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Child of the Heart [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters
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The Oath of the Free Amazons requires a Renunciate to send any son she bears away to be fostered, but what does giving up her child do to the mother--or to the son? (Published: 1985)
Words: 1656 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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31
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Clingfire [Darkover series]
by Patricia Duffy Novak
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Coryn Hastur, Keeper of Hali Tower, loved Arielle and wanted to marry her, but his work in the Tower was important, and the head of his family did not want him to marry at all. So he threw himself into his work, convinced that his circumstances could never change. (Published: 1990)
Words: 3441 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Cold Spell
by Elisabeth Waters
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Eirthe was very annoyed when an evil wizard placed a cold curse on her. Not only did it interfere with her candlemaking business, but it really upset her pet salamander. (Published: 1985)
Words: 4226 - Reading Time: 12-16 min.
Category: Fantasy
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33
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Colors of Space
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Bart Steele has just graduated from the Academy and qualified as an Astrogator. Instead of getting a berth on a human ship, however, he disguises himself as an alien Lhari and signs on to one of their ships, risking his life to break the Lhari's monopoly on intergalactic travel by finding out what element is missing from human attempts to copy the Lhari's star drive. (Published: 1963)
Words: 45325 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Young Adult
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34
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Connecticat [Magic in Suburbia series]
by Elisabeth Waters, Raul S Reyes
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The Lama's nephew wasn't a great Buddhist--or even a great human. So some people might have considered his reincarnation a step backwards. (Published: 1994)
Words: 7011 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Fantasy
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35
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Crosswort Puzzle [Treasures Series 4]
by Elisabeth Waters, Michael Spence
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While doing an internship as a mage in the customs office, Laurel accidentally lets in a shipment that isn't as harmless as it looked on paper. (Published: 2007)
Words: 4937 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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36
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Dance Track
by Mercedes Lackey
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In this alternate version of reality, Isadora Duncan gave up dancing for auto racing, changing the lives--and deaths--of those she came in contact with. (Published: 1989)
Words: 5661 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
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Danila's Song [Darkover series]
by Vera Nazarian
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More and more, he was becoming a bitter introvert. And this process, the leronis at Serrais had said, was almost surely irrevocable. It came as a direct result of what he had gone through, both physically and psychologically, during the horror of the fire ... (Published: 1991)
Words: 5723 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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38
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Daughter of Heaven [Treasures series 5]
by Elisabeth Waters, Michael Spence
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Laurel expects to be stuck working in the Customs House forever (or until her brother Stephen passes his magical Ordeal, whichever comes first), but she finds something in a batch of documents with a shipment from China that will change her life. Of course, she doesn't even notice it at first... (Published: 2008)
Words: 5461 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Fantasy/Alternate History
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Death Between the Stars
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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A Terran ignores xenophic bigotry and shares a starship cabin with a non-human telepath, with unexpected results. (Published: 1956)
Words: 5703 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Death Hunt
by Raul S Reyes
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A murder has been commited in the Otherworld, and the culprit will escape if Safari Guide MaCallan Arish and her partner, Registerd Witch Tanil Alana, cannot uncover the plot in time. (Published: 1997)
Words: 6217 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mystery/Crime
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Death in Thendara [Darkover series]
by Dorothy J. Heydt
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The death of a scoundrel in chaos-ridden Thendara leads through a tangle of misrepresentation, forgery, smuggling, tax evasion, panic, paranoia, and amateur detection to the death of another scoundrel.... (Published: 1990)
Words: 6826 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Death's Scepter [Darkover series]
by Joan Marie Verba
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It's hard to be friends and allies when those around you want you to be rivals. (Published: 1988)
Words: 3583 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Destined for the Tower [Darkover Series]
by Elisabeth Waters, Deborah Wheeler, Deborah J. Ross
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There is more than one "fate worse than death"--and more than one way to avoid it. (Published: 1993)
Words: 4469 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Devil Went Down to Georgia
by Mercedes Lackey
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He could cope with being the man of the house after his father was killed in the War, but when the Devil decided to come after his sister, Seth knew he needed some extra help. (Published: 2005)
Words: 6906 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
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Different Kind of Courage [Darkover Series]
by Mercedes Lackey
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It takes a lot of courage to be a Free Amazon, but does that mean you absolutely must be a swordswoman? (Published: 1985)
Words: 5879 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Dragon in Distress
by Mercedes Lackey, Elisabeth Waters
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No matter how many princes woo you, you need some standards: "If I were ever to marry, which I don't plan on," Rowena said firmly, "I'm sure I would want a husband who had some sense of self-preservation. Camping out on a ledge just outside a dragon's lair does not betoken any great degree of intelligence." (Published: 1995)
Words: 6068 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Dragon's Teeth [Martis series 2]
by Mercedes Lackey
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The Council sent Masterclass mage Martis and her bodyguard Lyran on what was supposed to be a simple mission. Nobody expected things to start with out-of-control--and nearly fatal--weather and then escalate from there. (Published: 1988)
Words: 11925 - Reading Time: 34-47 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Elbow Room
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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I am glad that I love them; I'd hate to think that some psych-tech made me love them! Because they are sweet, dear, wonderful, lovable people. All of them. As long as I don't have to see them very often. (Published: 1980)
Words: 7073 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Everything But Freedom [Darkover series]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Rohana Ardais had rank, wealth, a noble husband, sons and a daughter, servants, a large estate and the power to run it as she saw fit. Most women would have thought her life was perfect--after all, what more could she want? (Published: 1987)
Words: 33909 - Reading Time: 96-135 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Experiment Perilous
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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In this essay, MZB compares the writing and criticism of New Wave fiction to earlier changes in science fiction writing, such as the addition of sex and characterization to the pulp fiction style of the 1940s. (Published: 1976)
Words: 6705 - Reading Time: 19-26 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Technology/Science
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