Falcons of Narabedla is a science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

 set in the universe of her Darkover

Darkover series

The Darkover series consists of several novels and short stories set in the fictional world of Darkover as created by science fiction author Marion Zimmer Bradley.-Darkover chronology:...

 book series

Book series

A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher....

. It was first published in book form in English by Ace Books

Ace Books

Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...

 in 1964, as an Ace Double with Bradley's collection The Dark Intruder and Other Stories on the other side. The story first appeared in the May 1957 issue of the magazine Other Worlds

Other Worlds (magazine)

Other Worlds Science Stories was an American science fiction magazine, edited by Raymond A. Palmer with Bea Mahaffey. It was published by Palmer's Clark Publishing in Evanston, Illinois beginning in the late 1940s...

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The name "Narabedla" is the name of the star "Aldebaran

Aldebaran

Aldebaran is a red giant star located about 65 light years away in the zodiac constellation of Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87 it is the brightest star in the constellation and is one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky...

" spelled backwards.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns a person who is transported into the future and an alien world where Terrans and Darkovans have meshed and become decadent.

Publication history

• 1957, USA, Other Worlds
  Other Worlds (magazine)
  Other Worlds Science Stories was an American science fiction magazine, edited by Raymond A. Palmer with Bea Mahaffey. It was published by Palmer's Clark Publishing in Evanston, Illinois beginning in the late 1940s...
  
  , Pub date May 1957, magazine publication
• 1964, USA, Ace Books
  Ace Books
  Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
  
   , Pub date April 1964, Paperback, Tête-bêche with The Dark Intruder and Other Stories
• 1984, UK, Arrow Books ISBN 0099356503, Pub date 1984, Paperback
• 1991, UK, Severn House ISBN 0-7278-4181-5, Pub date March 1991, Hardcover