The Heritage of Hastur

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Longest and most intricate of the Darkover Books, this is a brilliant epic of the pivotal even in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of forgotten peoples. This is the novel of the Hastur tradition and of the showdown between those who would bargain away their world for the glories of the star-borne science and those who wold preserve the special matrix power that was at once the prize and the burden of ruddy-sunned Darkover. A rich and highly colored tale of politics and magic, courage and pressure..