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Hawkmistress Paperback – Jan. 1 1988

by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
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  1. Print length
    336 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    New Amer Library
  4. Publication date
    Jan. 1 1988
  5. Dimensions
    11.43 x 2.54 x 17.78 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0886772397
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0886772390
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Amer Library; Reissue edition (Jan. 1 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0886772397
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0886772390
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 159 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.43 x 2.54 x 17.78 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.

She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels.

In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS for DAW Books.

Over the years she turned more to fantasy; THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE WORLDS was "fantasy undiluted." She wrote a best-selling novel of the women in the Arthurian legends--Morgan Le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and others--entitled MISTS OF AVALON, and she also wrote THE FIREBRAND, a novel about the women of the Trojan War. Her historical fantasy novels, THE FOREST HOUSE and LADY OF AVALON are prequels to MISTS OF AVALON.

She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack. She was survived by her brother, Leslie Zimmer; her sons, David Bradley and Mark Greyland; her daughter, Moira Greyland; and her grandchildren.

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Joe Sherry
5.0 out of 5 stars another excellent Darkover novel
Reviewed in Canada on October 3, 2003
This book is set in one of the earlier time periods of Darkover: The Ages of Chaos. The heroine of this novel is a girl named Romilly. Romilly MacAran is the daughter of an important family. She has her family's gift of laran: the ability to intuitively feel what animals are feeling, thus making it easier to work with them. In particular, this laran is used with hawks and horses (her family is known for the MacAran gift with hawks). Because of the strained family dynamic, more pressure is put in Romilly than otherwise might have been. The eldest son left home to train his laran in a Tower, and this enraged Mikhail MacAran (so much so that mention of laran or the eldest son's name was forbidden). The heir was a disappointment to Mikhail and he wished that Romilly was a man. Mikhail tried to push Romilly into a marriage with someone that she found disgusting and unacceptable. Instead of accepting the marriage, she ran away from home.
Romilly disguises herself as a man. This era of Darkover is extremely patriarchal and women have few rights in society. Romilly meets up with Dom Carlo and his exile band who are joining the army of the exiled King Carolin. Though her travels she is learning who she is and who she wants to be. Romilly also gets to experience some of the prejudice Darkover society presents women. For a brief while, she also joins the Sisterhood of the Sword, a female/warrior society. Even while we learn about Romilly we also see more of Darkover and what the society is like.
This is a feminist novel in the characterization of Romilly and how she reacts to the men (and world) of Darkover. It is also a very good novel. It goes in a different direction from Stormqueen (another novel set in the Ages of Chaos), but is just as rich and just as good. Darkover is one of the better fanstay worlds and Marion Zimmer Bradley is an excellent writer. Most, if not all, of the Darkover novels are self-contained, so it is not necessary to read them in any particular order. Just pick one up and give it a try. I haven't been disappointed by this series yet.
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A.J. Chodan
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but Stormqueen! was better.
Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2000
Hawkmistress! is valuable to Darkover fans as part of the history of the Swordswomen/Renunciates and as a tale of one of the more unusual forms of laran to be mentioned.
However, since I had just finished reading Stormqueen! (IMHO, the best of the series), almost anything would have disappointed me at that point. And I just couldn't warm up to Romily the way I did to Renata Leynier or Magda Lorne (my two favorite Darkover heroines). My original impulse was to post a three-star review, but the book did improve on re-reading, so four stars it is.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Full of imagination!!!
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2000
I loved reading this book!!! The heroine doesn't like being a "lady". She loves working with the animals and helping with outside things rather than being inside. Her "gift" is a rare kind of laran, to feel the emotions of animals and what they are thinking.
She travels in the disguise of a boy and everyone believes that's just what she is. A boy with a very special talent. Helping a group of men with some birds, a kind of bird where if you link your mind with it you can see through it's eyes, she learns that a war is starting to take effect. Adventure is teeming everywhere and she enters places that no other girl, or woman could enter. But her gift isn't always good. Sometimes she feels too much and sometimes she could almost loose control on what's human ... and what's animal.
This is one of my favorite books in the MZB series and it's a wonderful read.
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Beverly Adams
5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Darkover novels
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2001
I have recently gotten reaquainted with the Darokover novels and found myself very taken with this book. It has a lot of elements that make it a good read: a heroine who has a great power and is able to work with what she has and in various situations; the idea of working within an animal's mind and being one with it; the fact that using weapons which hurt innocents is immoral; trying to stay neutral in a war but how you may need to choose sides eventually. With a lot of adventure in between, to me, this book is great for Darkover fans.
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Larry Eischen
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy with a Point
Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2000
Hawkmistress is one of Bradley's Darkover series and one of the best. This is the story of a woman's liberation from a male dominated society intent on marrying her to an undesirable match. Escaping from her family she roams Darkover enroute to battling usurpers and earning fame as a swordwoman.
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Keri
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Darkover book
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2001
One of Marion Zimmer Bradley's best books.
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Alexander Rosenzweig
5.0 out of 5 stars Una cuenta bonita
Reviewed in Spain on April 29, 2021
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El libro está muy bien! Una cuenta bonita.
El estado del libro usado fue bien.
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S. C. Engle
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a replacement
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2014
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I decided, not long ago, to replace some of Bradley's Darkover stories. This is one of her best. Service for this purchase was excellent
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Knuddle
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr guter Roman!
Reviewed in Germany on March 8, 2013
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Ich habe dieses Buch bereits 2 Mal auf Deutsch gelesen. Nun lese Ich es auf Englisch, wobei ich feststellen muss, dass es auch in Englisch wunderbar zu lesen ist. Auch wenn man nicht immer mit englischen Texten zu tun hat. Die Geschichte ist spannend und mitreißend und bewegt einem zum weiterlesen!

Kann ich nur jedem empfehlen !
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D.C.
1.0 out of 5 stars ... read the Darkover series many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed them. The Darkover stories have all the elements ...
Reviewed in Australia on December 4, 2014
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I read the Darkover series many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed them. The Darkover stories have all the elements of the Game of Thrones series. Unfortunately, this published version has far too many typos and punctuation errors interrupting the flow of the story.

Publishers, please consider that buyers of books are probably literate, and that mistakes present like sudden obstacles in ones path. Readers should not have to trip and stumble through a sentence.
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Christa Salzmann
2.0 out of 5 stars Abgestürzt.
Reviewed in Germany on February 1, 2014
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Einer der schwächeren Darkover-Titel. Aber wegen der vielen Fehler in der Schreibweise auch einfachster Wörter dicker Abzug bei der Vergabe der Sterne. Und so besonders preisgünstig war er ja nicht, warum also kein Redigieren möglich?
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