The Fall of Neskaya

Marion Zimmer Bradley · Deborah J. Ross

Apr 2021 · RB Media · Narrated by Pete Bradbury

About this audiobook

The Fall of Neskaya, Book One of the Clingfire Trilogy, marks the legendary author’s final return to Darkover before her death. Set in the tumultuous era of
The Hundred Kingdoms, a terrible time of strife and war, this unique fantasy world is divided into a multitude of small belligerent domains vying for power and land.
One ambitious and corrupt tyrant will stop at nothing to control Darkover—even wield the terrifying weapons of the matrix.

About the author

Marion Zimmer Bradley is a science-fiction and fantasy writer, novelist, and editor. She was born in Albany, New York on June 3, 1930. Bradley attended the New York State College for Teachers from 1946 to 1948. She earned a B.A. from Hardin Simmons University in 1964. Bradley did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1965 to 1967. Bradley sold her first story to Fantastic Amazing Stories as part of an amateur fiction contest. She sold her first professional story to Vortex Science Fiction in 1952. Her novels include The Sword of Aldones and The Planet Savers. Both novels were set on Darkover, the setting for more than 20 subsequent Bradley novels. Bradley also wrote The Mists of Avalon, a reworking of the King Arthur legend with more emphasis on the female characters. She used the same approach with The Firebrand, which was based on The Iliad. In addition to writing more than 85 books, Bradley was the editor of an annual anthology for DAW Books, as well as the editor of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. Bradley died in 1999.