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Title: The World Wreckers
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Narrator: Jonathan Davis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-10-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic
Publisher's Summary:
A classic novel in the best-selling Darkover series. For three quarters of a century, Darkover has resisted the Terran Empire's efforts in colonization and industrialization. But the leader of Planetary Investments Unlimited (known as Worldwreckers, Inc.) has decided to take on this assignment herself...for long ago, she had called Darkover home.
Members Reviews:
The Rite of Spring....
"The World Wreckers" is what I call mature Bradley. She knows what she wants to say and how to say it. The tale is slickly done and covers the nature of the sexual being, the definition of femininity, culture shock, and, more than usually, the nature of capitalist exploitation of the environment and the peoples who inhabit it. It is also Marion's story about the chieri and their ancient heritage and the second tale of Jason Allison.
As is so often the case, Bradley gives us a glimpse into her sexually deviant world in a vivid rape scene in the midst of a story of unconventional love. Her sexually and physically abused daughter, Moira Greyland leaves us with these thoughts of the person and legacy of Marion Zimmer Bradley:
And no remorse was ever seen
Reality was in between
Her books, her world, that was her life
The rest of us a source of strife.
She told me that I was not real
So how could she think I would feel
But how could she look in my eyes
And not feel anguish at my cries?
I felt my time was so absolutely beyond wasted, that it was in fact a detriment
This book was such absolute trash I contemplated burning it despite my long standing moral principle against burning any book. I felt my time was so absolutely beyond wasted, that it was in fact a detriment. I can't speak to it in terms of the Darkover novels in general, but if this book is any indicator of the franchise I don't want anything to do with it. The first half of the book showed some serious promise, and played around with some interesting ideas, but its all downhill from there. Of all the interestingly developed supporting characters I feel that all the potential any of them had to start with is utterly squandered by the book's conclusion. This book and especially its ending has got to be one of the biggest most disappointing, most naive, hippie laden piles of crap it has ever been my displeasure to wade through. The author is a hack who wishes she was as talented as Ursula K. Le Guin, not to mention an alleged child molester. If you want to read an interesting science fiction novel that explores ideas like love and gender identity in interesting and meaningful ways, do yourself a favor and go read The Left Hand of Darkness.
Haven't read any Marion Zimmer Bradley books before, so...
This is the first Marion Zimmer Bradley book I have ever read, so here is a perspective from somebody unfamiliar with the author's style, or the Darkover series.
I'd like to say straight up that the title and cover description of this book are misleading. Although the world wrecking premise is in the book, it is only there to provide a foundation for the story's conflict, and is, in the overall scheme, pretty insignificant. The bulk of the plot revolves around a group of telepaths learning to work together and learning about an ancient, dying race known as the chieri. This story is plenty compelling and was quite enjoyable, just not what I expected.
This book has many of the problems associated with pulp scifi.