Series:Darkover

Bibliographic notes for Marion_Zimmer_Bradley's Darkover series.

Sources of Data

• ISFDB has the following series:
  • Darkover
    • Children of Kings
    • Clingfire Trilogy
    • Darkover Omnibus
• Wikipedia has the following articles that provide sometimes conflicting information about the series:
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Darkover
  • Darkover series
  • List of Darkover books
• The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust maintains a page listing her works which organizes Darkover into "Order of Publication" and also a "Darkovan chronology."
• Fantastic Fiction's bibliography Marion Zimmer Bradley.
• The author Deborah_J._Ross maintains a web page that lists her contributions to the series.
• DAW Books includes a list Darkover titles they have published in their Darkover publications. This listing only covers titles published by DAW and reflects the publisher's view of how the titles are organized. Here is the list as stated in The Alton Gift published in June 2007. Note that DAW's list does not show the year of publication and for the "The Novels of Darkover" section does not show the the co-authors. That data was added here for convenience.
  • The Novels of Darkover
    • Exile's Song (1996)
    • The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne_Martine-Barnes)
    • Traitor's Sun (1999) (with Adrienne_Martine-Barnes)
    • The Alton Gift (2007) (with Deborah_J._Ross) (see #The Alton Gift)
  • The Clingfire Trilogy
    • The Fall of Neskaya (2002) (with Deborah_J._Ross)
    • Zandru's Forge (2003) (with Deborah_J._Ross)
    • A Flame in Hali (2004) (with Deborah_J._Ross)

The Alton Gift

Some sites list The Alton Gift as being part of the "The Children of Kings" series. Deborah J. Ross' web site seems to put this in a series called "Modern Darkover" and has the following explanation.

After A Flame in Hali, I began work on a sequel to Traitor's Sun. Originally, this book was to be titled, The Children of Kings. It rapidly became apparent that there were far too many story elements to be contained in a single volume. So, there will be three new books set in "modern" Darkover, each one a "stand-alone."

• The Alton Gift - The first of the three new books set in "modern" Darkover.
• The second book, which will most likely be titled, The Children of Kings.
• Ross describes the third book but did not list what its title will be.

DAW Books seems to put The Alton Gift in the "Novels of Darkover" series. Just before the title page for The Alton Gift is a page of Marion Zimmer Bradley titles published by DAW that breaks the titles down by series. The Alton Gift itself is not included in this list but is assumed to be in “The Novels of Darkover” series based on the statements “The long-awaited sequel to Traitor's Sun” and the statement “A Novel of Darkover” on the front cover.