Traitor's Sun (Darkover)
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Author: Marion Zimmer BradleyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-01
ISBN: 0886778115
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: DAW
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Book Review: Against the Terrans, for the last time
Summary: 4 Stars
It has been just over a century since the long-lost human colony of Darkover was rediscovered by the Terran Federation, and in that time the Federation has gradually abandoned its original ideals, as Darkover's Senator Hermes Aldaran is all too aware. On most industrialized planets the bulk of the population lives cramped and difficult lives, forcing the government to seek either new worlds to colonize (recently an unsuccessful effort) or try to open to exploitation the many Protected Worlds which have thus far resisted full membership. Marguerida Alton-Hastur, once known as Margaret Alton, has for almost 16 years been the wife of Mikhail Hastur, designated heir to his uncle, Darkover's Regent; still deeply in love, they have two sons and a daughter. When Regis suffers a fatal stroke and Hermes unexpectedly flees home with his Renneyan wife, stepson, and daughter, a crisis is precipitated. The Hasturs soon learn that the Terran legislature has been dissolved and that the Terrans currently assigned to their planet are being ordered to leave it. To many Darkovans this would be reason for relief, but Lyle Belfontaine, the corrupt and ambitious station chief at Thendara Base, isn't going down without a fight. When he learns of Regis's death, he and his second-in-command originate a plan to ambush the funeral procession on its way upcountry, massacre most of the planet's Comyn nobility, invade and occupy Comyn Castle on the pretext of serving a warrant for Hermes's arrest, and, they hope, force a Terran takeover, which may lead to Belfontaine's being named Governor and secure their positions for the foreseeable future. Only the impulsive action of Marguerida and Mikhail's eldest, Domenic, who sneaks out of the castle to see the performance of some visiting Travelers and telepathically overhears two Terrans plotting with one of them, enables the Darkovans to find out about the conspiracy and originate a way to foil it. And only the existence of Marguerida's "shadow matrix" (see Exile's Song (Darkover) and of Mikhail's ring set with the matrix stone of Varzil the Good (The Shadow Matrix (Darkover)) make it possible for them to succeed.
Sharing most of the characters of the two previous volumes in the trilogy, this novel is, like most of the later Darkover tales, complex and rather slow-moving, but peopled by a large array of interesting men and women, including Marguerida's father Lew, who has proven invaluable to his daughter and son-in-law in their efforts to bring some modern technology to Darkover without overturning what is good about it; Gisela Aldaran, Hermes's sister-in-law, and Katherine, his wife, who find themselves unexpected allies; Illona Rider, the redheaded Traveler girl who is much more than she realizes; Javanne, Mikhail's frustrated and interfering mother, and her husband Dom Gabriel; and many more. Climaxing in a wild psi-battle as Marguerida and Mikhail unleash the full power of their matrices, it is in some ways not only the chronological but the literal capstone of the long Darkover series.
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