If you could trade lives with someone for a day, who would it be, and what would you do?I’d thought at first that I would trade with Carolyn Sanderson, let her come to Darkover for a time and walk freely. No more stasis, or having to experience things through the minds or senses of others but directly. Yet while I would still be willing, would a ( Read more... )

The most tempting possibility, if I could devise a way, would be one of two
alternatives: to grant "Comyn" powers, specifically empathy and telepathy, to
everyone on Darkover. The division between those that have laran and those that ( Read more... )

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If you could change someone's mind about something, who and what
would it be?
Some one person?
If I could reach back in time--and save me from temptation,
Avarra and Evanda--I would prevent whoever first thought of using
laran and matrices to create weapons from so doing ( Read more... )

Beauty has one of two meanings for a Keeper ( Read more... )

Love is something precious, if rare, among Comyn. We have seen brother fight ( Read more... )

We do have children's stories that end somewhat like that, but not many of ( Read more... )

The sun's setting. He walks up to his quarters, alone, as he has for the last ( Read more... )

There have been changes; in what I know, and what I believe...

Starting with the existence of other worlds. That has been largely a myth, one so distorted few people on Darkover would think it was anything but a children's story.

I met several people who inhabit those worlds; a certain roving shaman, his...companions, the damned Shadows, and of ( Read more... )

That is almost two questions in one.
"True" friendship? As opposed to what, I might ask.
Can men and women be friends? Yes. That isn't a matter
of belief,for me, but of what I've seen, and experienced. Despite
what some of my fellow Comyn--male and female ( Read more... )