The Shadow Matrix

Synopsis

After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited "Laran" gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet!

Ideas Explored

• Declining Superhuman Ability
• Free Amazons: Gender Autonomy Movement
• Hereditary Destiny Weapon
• Persecuted Ability Minority
• Telepathic Monarchical Governance

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionDarkover (Imaginary place)Life on other planetsScience FictionDarkover (imaginary place), fictionFiction, science fiction, generalneeds-review

isfdb_id: 7718

openlibrary_id: OL23716W

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