Other Doorways

Worlds that might have been, strong women characters, romance and adventure: this omnibus includes two novels by Deborah J. Ross, the author who has continued the "Darkover" series created by Marion Zimmer Bradley. In Jaydium, a miner's daughter teams up with a shell-shocked war hero to discover an alien race in the far past of their desolate world, a race on the brink of destroying itself. Northlight follows a visionary young scholar and a daring woman knife-fighter on a quest that begins as a rescue mission and ends up revealing a terrible secret about their world's origins, one that might well be repeated unless they can prevent it.