It was Bradley's misfortune that she wanted to write epics in a market designed for 150,000-word quickies. Thus was the Darkover saga broken up into mini-fantasies like this one -- okay for a diversion but nothing to get excited about. And yet it's also possible to see glimpses of the finely-crafted world she has built and to wish someone, somewhere, would collect all these stories in one or two volumes and present them to their best advantage.
It was Bradley's misfortune that she wanted to write epics in a market designed for 150,000-word quickies. Thus was the Darkover saga broken up into mini-fantasies like this one -- okay for a diversion but nothing to get excited about. And yet it's also possible to see glimpses of the finely-crafted world she has built and to wish someone, somewhere, would collect all these stories in one or two volumes and present them to their best advantage.
It was Bradley's misfortune that she wanted to write epics in a market designed for 150,000-word quickies. Thus was the Darkover saga broken up into mini-fantasies like this one -- okay for a diversion but nothing to get excited about. And yet it's also possible to see glimpses of the finely-crafted world she has built and to wish someone, somewhere, would collect all these stories in one or two volumes and present them to their best advantage.
