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• Rediscovery: A Novel of Darkover

DAW, 1994 - 368 pages

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Fills a gap, but incomplete

I'm an MZB / Darkover fan from way back. Was quite excited to find this book. It started well, had lots of potential to be a good novel but towards the end it just faded away. After the death of Ysaye and the severing of Leonie Hastur's links to Ysaye, allowing Ysaye to die and Leonie to live, it collapsed completely. It read as if the last half of the book had been deleted and a couple of pages substituted. All in all, it filled some gaps in Darkover history, but left a lot of unanswered questions. As other reviewers have noted, perhaps the weakest book in the series. Worth a read for all that but expect to be disappointed with what it doesn't cover.



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an important moment in Darkover's history

This Darkover novel is similar to "Darkover Landfall" in that it deals with the discovery (in this case, rediscovery) of the planet Darkover by Terrans landing on the planet. There are rather significant differences, of course. "Rediscovery" takes place a couple of thousand years after "Darkover Landfall" and the ship that colonized Darkover is known only as one of the "Lost Ships" that was unaccounted for. The Terran spacecraft has been traveling for several years, looking for a habitable planet on which to land and conduct experiments to determine whether or not the planet is able to be colonized. The novel's viewpoint switches back and forth between the ship and the telepath's who learn the ship is coming.

Part of the novel (that which is suggested by the title) is focused on the ship, its crew, and the discovery that the people of Darkover are comprised of the descendants of former Terran colonists. The other viewpoint is that of the native Darkovans. We see Leonie Hastur, a woman going to train her extremely powerful laran in one of the Towers. Even though I know the novel's focus was truly on the rediscovery of Darkover, it was the Leonie chapters that interested me the most.

The events of this novel were a turning point in the history of Darkover as there will now be a Terran presence on Darkover and a greater technological impact on what was once a low-tech world. This was not one of the best Darkover novels, but I enjoyed it and it was a story that needed to be told as it allows for all of the novels that are set after "Rediscovery". I would not start the series with "Rediscovery", but if you like the series then there is no reason you shouldn't read this one, too.


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Fills a Gap in Darkover History

DARKOVER LANDFALL tells the frustratingly short tale of how human colonists from the New Hebrides Commune crash land on Cottman IV - Darkover. REDISCOVERY picks up many millennia later, telling the story of the first contact between the descendants of the lost colonists and space explorers from the Terran Empire. The main characters are the folk musicians and linguists David and Elizabeth Lorne (parents of Margaret Alton - the main character in the Darkover novel EXILE'S SONG), and Ysaye, the ship's computer expert. Also making an appearance are Leonie and Regis Hastur, fifteen year-old twin telepaths from Darkover's royal family, shown in later books as grey-haired elders of the Hastur clan. Darkover devotees will also thrill at the glimpse of Rohana and Melora Ardais (THE SHATTERED CHAIN) as young initiates at the tower.

The story tries to go in too many directions, and therefore does not accomplish any of them well. The kidnapping action at the very end of the book seems forced and artificial, even anticlimactic. That being said - I still LOVE IT and have read this at least a dozen times - but then I am a rabid Darkover fan from way back. This novel fills in background information about important Darkover characters, but even I must admit: This story has very little chance of standing on its own with those not familiar with the series.

The Darkover books definitely fluctuate in quality - try HAWKMISTRESS.



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i "heart" darkover (and kurt cobain, but off the subject)

okay, this book is about when the terrans rediscovered darkover. the two main characters are Elizabeth MacKintosh (later to become Elizabeth Lorne) and Leonie Hastur. It switches back and forth from their points of view. On the terran ship, there are colonists that are looking for a planet where they can settle, and they find darkover, although they do not know it's darkover yet, and they keep of seeing strange things going on. But on darkover there is Leonie who is being sent to the tower of Daleruth, who is feeling annoyed because she feels that her twin brother Lorill is getting in her way of becoming a keeper because she has a ton of power and the hastur gift because Lorill got to go to Arilinn while Leonie had to go to Daleruth. so when the terrans land, they land in the hellers and are met by the aldarans and start to build a spaceport. and then leonie sents lorill up to the hellers and finds himself in a difficult situation.

this is a good book to start reading darkover with, but is awful for people who notice inconsistantcies (lorill and leonie see that some of the terrans have laran). but i thought it was really good even though it doesn't support lorill and leonie's argument in the shattered chain.


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great book for darkover fans of all ages

it starts out with a ship from earth sending a team down to darkover for exploration. this shuttle crashes and ends up standed in the middle of a blizzard. an interesting subplot also
tells the story of a young leonie hastur and her first trip to
a tower for training of her laran. this i find slightlty more
interesting becasue most darkover novels potray her in later life
as a very unapproacable keeper and this book shows a more softer
human side. anyway one of the people on the shuttle is also telepathic and her and leonie develop a friendship that is forbidden. the outcome of all of this is just superb and well worth reading.


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Leonie Hastur, a powerful telepath and daughter of one of the most powerful ruling clans of Darkover, becomes disturbed by a premonition that something is about to happen that will forever change her world. Reprint.



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