The Sword of Aldones (Ace SF, 79200) [Mass Market Paperback]

Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Ace Books (June 1962)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9997506863
• ISBN-13: 978-9997506863
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #573,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels and for her Arthurian novel, THE MISTS OF AVALON.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS, which is still published annually under the title MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S SWORD AND SORCERESS.
She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Stick to Trantor, August 17, 2011

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Adman (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sword of Aldones (Ace SF, 79200) (Mass Market Paperback)

Stick to Trantor. Or Arakis. Or Hyperion. Or Helliconia. Or Jack Vance's dying Earth. Or whatyoucallit. Because the planet Darkover and its inhabitants are nothing really exceptional, regardless of the audacity of the book cover calling it "the Foundation of the 70s".

What you will find in Sword of Aldones:

Telepathy, the chronic SF plague, moving the plot forward.
About two dozen of irritating local nobles, living and dying by the plague mentioned above.
A local station of the Earth galactic empire which looks like a comical galactic gendarmerie under the command of a space Louis de Funès.

What you will not find in Sword of Aldones:

A big story. Someone or something to root for. Answers to dilemmas. Speculation on humankind's future. And so on.

Sword of Aldones is described as a juvenile story even by its author. You can safely skip it and stick to Trantor et al.

4.0 out of 5 stars The Sword of Aldones, November 10, 2010

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Floradora Rumplefrump - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Sword of Aldones (Ace SF, 79200) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was weird. It was an adventuresome story with twists and turns that seemed more like afterthoughts, e.g., oops - I forgot to tell you that back at the castle this was happening - and sometimes it was hard to tell who was doing what and when. On the other hand, this book fleshed out some events and answered some questions, while raising others. It was a fun read.