A writer of absolute competence is Marion Zimmer Bradley, who should be more widely read. Her "Darkover Landfall" Marion Zimmer Bradley 1930– Photograph by Modern Art. Courtesy of Marion Zimmer Bradley… is both literate and exciting, with much of that searching "fable" quality that made "Lord of the Flies" so provocative. (p. 16)

Theodore Sturgeon, "If …?" in The New York Times Book Review, April 22, 1973, pp. 14, 16.∗