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Exile's Song (Darkover) (Paperback)

by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)
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The eagerly-awaited sequel to The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile. Margaret Alton, daughter of the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, remembers almost nothing about the planet of her birth or her tumultuous childhood. What fleeting memories she has are fragments of terror -- a strange silver man and a screaming woman with hair that circled her head like a ring of fire. Now her work has taken Margaret back to Darkover, where she must fight against inner voices that are trying to control her as she unravels the secrets of her heritage -- and her destiny. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Musicologist Margaret Alton and her mentor Ivor Davidson travel to Darkover, the planet of her birth, to collect folk songs. When Ivor dies suddenly, Margaret finds family she has never known and suffers a painful illness that awakens latent mental powers. During this journey of self-discovery, she fights for her autonomy but is drawn to remain on Darkover as a member of a powerful family. This intricate, lyrically written novel is essential for sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: DAW (April 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0886777348
  • ISBN-13: 978-0886777340
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #452,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfying, by-the-numbers retread, April 6, 2000
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When I was 18 I adored the Darkover series, so I opened this novel hoping to recapture some of that spirit. But I can't ever be 18 again, and I can't ignore all the problems that made this book deeply unsatisfying. The basic plot, for one, was already done (twice!) much better in The Bloody Sun. The characters are all fairly flat, with a couple of identifying quirks substituting for characterization, and none of them have much motivation to speak of -- instead of complexity, we have simplistic stimulus-and-response behavior that just doesn't ring true.

Even in the case of Margaret, our Heroine, there's not much depth, and very little emotion: we're told that she's feeling this way and that, and she thinks about her feelings constantly, but we're never allowed to participate in those feelings.

The transformation of the bitter hard-drinking Lew of her memories (which I found quite a plausible and interesting development of the character) back into Good Old Darkover Lew, everybody's pal and passionate good-guy, as soon as he reappeared was sudden, unmotivated, and made me wonder, if all he needed to make himself a happy, well-balanced man again was to come back to Darkover, and nobody minded his coming back, why didn't he do it years ago and spare everybody more trouble?

Plus, the confrontation with the Big Secret Villain, which should have been the climax of the novel, occurs about halfway through, leaving the rest of it anticlimactic, aimless, and rather pointless. (Lots more whining and histrionics all around, though and some seriously bizarre family dynamics.)

I will only mention in passing the clumsy prose, and the extreme padding that turn a sparsely-plotted book into a heavyweight for no particular reason.

It would be easy to attribute this book's faults to its not having been actually written by MZB. But MZB turned out her share of serious clunkers over the years, and I've never read any of Adrienne Martine-Barnes's solo efforts. so that wouldn't be entirely fair. Exile's Song does hit most of the expected notes in a Darkover book, it just hits them dully, without any real originality or freshness or invention. It's a connect-the-dots, color-inside-the-lines version, flat and predictable.

There are books in the Darkover series that do have freshness, originality, and real strength of feeling. (The Heritage of Hastur, say, or The Forbidden Tower, or The Bloody Sun.) I'd head there for my fix, not to Exile's Song.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good history lesson of Darkover, March 13, 1998
For those who have heard of Marion Zimmer Bradley's tales of the planet of the bloody sun, this would be a good book to start with. It gives a synopsis of sorts of a great many of the previous books in the series, and while it's no substitute for those books, you'll at least have an idea of what's gone on in all those previous books.

The plot, I have to admit, is something straight out of the pulp fiction school, and sounds like something Bradley has done before - but that doesn't detract from the excellent quality of the writing, something that's been sorely lacking in the more recent Darkover novels. Still, this novel made me want to go back and reread even those. Who knows - maybe I'll change my mind about them after reading this one.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Future unfurled, April 5, 2002
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All though I do agree with the above author about the unconsistant genealogies in her series(I have encountered some of that in Mists of Avalon), focusing on that one fault ruins the impact and the refrencing of this book. the characters are there, before your eyes, acting out a life that you have always longed for while trying to avoid. Anyone who has had destiny put them in a maddening and unsuspected situation can relate to the main characters Margaret Alton and Mikhial Hastur/Lanart. I own this book and I can help but to read it over and over again because MZB shares JK Rowlings talent of holding little things in the book taht even the most careful of readers can't notice untill the fourth reading. This tale of our future is incredible and anyone even considering reading it should go ahead because it is anything but a waste of time.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Back to an unknown home
Margaret Alton knows she was born on Darkover--since her father is its Senator she could hardly fail to--but that's about all she does know: she left the planet at the age of five... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chrijeff

2.0 out of 5 stars Suppose your spouse promised you a romantic dinner, and took you to IHOP...
I wanted to like this book. I really did. I had read most of the older Darkover books while much younger, and this seemed like a promising start to re-exploring the series... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Doc Johnny

1.0 out of 5 stars All Good Things End
Sadly a lot of these "after her death" books were rough outlines and basically written by other authors notice the MZB and..such and such. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Paultaro

3.0 out of 5 stars back jacket summary

from the back cover of the April 1997 Daw paperback edition
cover illustration by Romas Kukalis
She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan... Read more
Published on March 3, 2006 by Ray Francis

5.0 out of 5 stars A return to the great Darkover books
After the lackluster Rediscovery this book restored my confidence in MZB as a writer. As soon as I finished this book I wanted the next one in this trilogy within a series.
Published on January 27, 2001 by Keri

4.0 out of 5 stars a great first book read
this is the first book of the darkover series i have read and i found it to be great. i read it in a day or so and true the plot does beg to be enhanced but i found the idea of... Read more
Published on December 29, 2000 by KAS2609@aol.com

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay..but not as 'good as it gets'....
Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful author, but I'm sorry to say that she doesn't show the story development that she usually has. Read more
Published on June 13, 2000 by T. Young

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give it six....
This is the first Darkover book I've read, and I think that the rest of the series will turn out to be very promising indeed. Read more
Published on November 18, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could give it 6.....
The first Darkover book I've read, and one of the best Sci-fi/Fantasy books I've ever read. I now plan to read the rest of the series. Read more
Published on November 17, 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Sharra rides again!
I've only read one other book by Bradley, "Mists of Avalon." Lucky for me because the list of other books she has written about this dark, red-mooned planet is long and... Read more
Published on July 12, 1999

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