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The Wind People
The Wind People
The Wind People
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Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.
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Release dateMar 10, 2016
ISBN9781682999653
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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, New York, 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 1965-1967. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels and her Arthurian  fantasy novel THE MISTS OF AVALON. 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. She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.

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    The Wind People - Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The Wind People

    by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Start Publishing LLC

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-965-3

    It had been a long layover for the Starholm’s crew, hunting heavy elements for fuel—eight months, on an idyllic green paradise of a planet; a soft, windy, whispering world, inhabited only by trees and winds. But in the end it presented its own unique problem. Specifically, it presented Captain Merrihew with the problem of Robin, male, father unknown, who had been born the day before, and a month prematurely, to Dr. Helen Murray.

    Merrihew found her lying abed in the laboratory shelter, pale and calm, with the child beside her.

    The little shelter, constructed roughly of green planks, looked out on the clearing which the Starholm had used as a base of operations during the layover; a beautiful place at the bottom of a wide valley, in the curve of a broad, deep-flowing river. The crew, tired of being shipbound, had built half a dozen such huts and shacks in these eight months.

    Merrihew glared down at Helen. He snorted, This is a fine situation. You, of all the people in the whole damned crew—the ship’s doctor! It’s—it’s— Inarticulate with rage, he fell back on a ridiculously inadequate phrase. It’s—criminal carelessness!

    I know. Helen Murray, too young and far too lovely for a ship’s officer on a ten-year cruise, still looked weak and white, and her voice was a gentle shadow of its crisp self.

    I’m afraid four years in space made me careless.

    Merrihew, brooded,

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