The Keeper's Price (Darkover) (Paperback)

~ (Author), Diana L. Paxson (Author), Cynthia McQuillin (Author), Patricia Mathews (Author), Eileen Ledbetter (Author), Susan Schwartz (Author), Elisabeth Waters (Author), Kathleen S. Williams (Author), Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Author), Jean Lorrah (Author)

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Product Description

An anthology of new stories set in Darkover spans the whole of Darkover history--from the days after the original landfall, through the Ages of Chaos, to the Pact of the Comyn, and to the coming of the Terrans. Reissue.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: DAW Books; First PB Edition edition (February 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886772362
• ISBN-13: 978-0886772369
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,412,408 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title story alone deserves five stars!, October 4, 2000

By	A.J. Chodan (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews

Take your favorite Darkover novel, compress it into a few pages but leave all the emotional impact in place -- that's "The Keeper's Price." I notice that MZB and Lisa Waters kept coming back to Hilary Castamir's charcter, and I wish there had been a novel about her. :)

Leaving aside the brilliance of the title masterpiece, the rest of the collection is strong and well-organized. Even the stories I didn't like as much at first ("A Simple Dream" comes to mind, as does "Ambassador to Corresanti") have grown on me. I've read and re-read this collection probably twenty times in the past year. I still want to read it over again. These are wonderful stories!

I also appreciated how well-organized this collection and _Sword of Chaos_ were, and wish the anthologies had continued to print stories in approximate chronological order.

Oh well.