VERY sad to hear this; the darkover series (to my way of thinking) grew to be perhaps the best - and my personal all-time favorite - fictional universe. I almost felt as though I was coming home every time I started another of the series. As surely as part of my youthful heart will always be ridin' w/Roy Rogers & Trigger, an older, more (nearly) grown-up part of me will always long to return to the planet of the "bloody sun."

I could do w/out meeting Spock, Scotty & etc & not miss it much. Ah, but the Hellers.. to visit (breifly) a Tower, to listen to their musicians & balladeers; THAT would be an alternate universe I'd like to experience..

BK, feeling a significant loss here in the center of the heartland...