 Thomas' Exile's Song reading notes: introduction
by Thomas Edsall
These notes are part of an ongoing attempt to extract
information about life on Darkover during the latter part
of the Terran Age. This information is given varying weight
depending on how it is presented in the book. Narrative
information is taken as fact, but information given by a
person's speech or thought may be taken as representing his
or her understanding of something as opposed to way things
actually are. Where the person is clearly knowledgeable on
the subject the information is accepted as factual. Where
it is questionable it is annotated as someone's view or
opinion. My own speculations, conclusions, and other
comments are in italics within square brackets.
The page number in parenthesis is the page number in
Exile's Song (Daw Books, New York 1996, hardback edition)
which contained the information cited. The ES is a letter
code for this book. At some future time it is intended
that this information will be merged with that from other
works each of which will be identified with its own letter
code. In most cases information is cited the first time it
occurs. It is likely that in some cases items have been
missed the first time and are cited from a later point (or
even missed entirely). Subsequent mention of these items
is not normally cited except where it helps build a pattern
of typical behavior, ability, or custom.
This information is sorted into broad categories plus
an "other" for items that do not seem to fit into them. The
categories covered are:
No attempt has been made to extract genealogical or
character information as this has been covered elsewhere by
others who have done it better than I could.
Comments, questions, corrections, or complaints can be
addressed directly to the author at
thedsall@erols.com
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