A Flame in Hali (Clingfire Trilogy #3)

by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah J. Ross

Overview

In the era of The Hundred Kingdoms, a time of war and unrest, King Carolin of Hastur and his friend Keeper Varzil Ridenow work selflessly to put an end to the destruction caused by the long range weapons of the magical matrix Towers. But Eduin Deslucido-who once called Carolin brother-has been consumed with a vengeful rage, and will stop at nothing to destroy the king and his plan for peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101118146
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	06/07/2005
Series:	Clingfire Trilogy , #13
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	252,534
File size:	722 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Marion 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, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. 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.

In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many 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 for DAW Books.

Over the years she turned more to fantasy; The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was "fantasy undiluted". She wrote a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends -- Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others -- entitled Mists of Avalon, which made the NY Times best seller list both in hardcover and trade paperback, and she also wrote The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, Mists of Avalon are prequels to Priestess of Avalon

She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Patrick Breen; her daughter, Moira Stern; and her grandchildren.

Date of Birth:

June 30, 1930

Date of Death:

September 25, 1999

Place of Birth:

Albany, New York

Place of Death:

Berkeley, California

Education:

B.A., Hardin-Simmons College, 1964; additional study at University of California, Berkeley, 1965-1967

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
The climactic conclusion of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross's Clingfire trilogy is set on Bradley's much-storied planet of Darkover in the war-filled era of the Hundred Kingdoms and chronicles a celebrated friendship that changed forever the bloody destiny of the planet.

Arguably an allegorical tale about modern-day warfare, the Clingfire trilogy (The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru's Forge) takes place during the lawless years leading up to the Compact, a historical treaty that forbade the use of all weapons that could kill from a distance; the honor-based principle being that anyone wishing to kill someone else must put their own life at equal risk. King Carolin of Hastur and his best friend, Keeper Varzil Ridenow, have dreamed about a world without war for years and, after much campaigning, the idea of the Compact is slowly being embraced by a growing number of kingdoms.

But there are factions that are against the Compact and will do anything to stop Carolin and Varzil from unifying Darkover. Eduin Deslucido -- tormented by a compulsion spell that his dead, vengeance-obsessed father planted in his mind -- is compelled to kill the king and his keeper. Can he break free from the powerful spell or is he doomed to carry out his father's murderous retribution? The conclusion of this trilogy is both exciting and melancholy. Bradley, who began the Darkover saga with the publication of Planet Savers in 1962, passed away in 1999 during the writing of these novels. Paul Goat Allen

bn.com

A little cutting might have benefited A Flame in Hali: Book Three of the Clingfire Trilogy, by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, but fans should find this tale of incessant war among the Hundred Kingdoms a worthy addition to Bradley's original Darkover series. The menacing dragon on the jacket will cue high fantasy fans. Agent, Russell Galen. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

During the time of the Hundred Kingdoms, two men, Keeper Varzil Ridenow and King Carolin of Hastur, stand poised to change the world with a powerful ruling banning distance weapons and forcing men to face each other in battle rather than killing one another from afar. Standing against them is the sinister figure of Eduin Deslucido, a laranzu who has turned renegade owing to a compulsion from his ambitious late father. Working from the late Bradley's notes, coauthor and prot g e Ross has continued a tale of tormented loyalties and personal redemption set in the quasimedieval world of Darkover. Essential for Darkover fans and for general fantasy readers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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