215 pages
English language
Published 1979
The World Wreckers (Darkover, #22)
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The World Wreckers is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her Darkover series. First published by Ace Books in 1971, it features a complex sub-plot involving the sexual interactions between hermaphrodite native species, known as the chieri, and humans. The book contains pivotal events in the part of the series that Zimmer Bradley identified as "After the Comyn/Against the Terrans". Every book that follows chronologically, refers to The World Wreckers. In "Author's Notes on Chronology", Bradley implies that The World Wreckers occurs about eighty years after the events in The Winds of Darkover, basing this assertion on the age of Desideria Storn in the two books, although according to the narrative of The World Wreckers, Desideria is about 92 Terran years old and as Darkovan year is about 1¼ Terran years, she is about 74 Darkovan years old. This would mean that The Winds …
The World Wreckers is a science fantasy novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her Darkover series. First published by Ace Books in 1971, it features a complex sub-plot involving the sexual interactions between hermaphrodite native species, known as the chieri, and humans. The book contains pivotal events in the part of the series that Zimmer Bradley identified as "After the Comyn/Against the Terrans". Every book that follows chronologically, refers to The World Wreckers. In "Author's Notes on Chronology", Bradley implies that The World Wreckers occurs about eighty years after the events in The Winds of Darkover, basing this assertion on the age of Desideria Storn in the two books, although according to the narrative of The World Wreckers, Desideria is about 92 Terran years old and as Darkovan year is about 1¼ Terran years, she is about 74 Darkovan years old. This would mean that The Winds of Darkover took place about 58 years prior to The World Wreckers. Also, the story takes place two or three years after the events in The Sword of Aldones/Sharra's Exile.