Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley's most popular contributions to feminist sf are the Darkover stories, particularly the stories about the Free Amazons (the Saga of the Renunciates), and The Mists of Avalon, a feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend.

Biography

Marion Zimmer Bradley hoped to become an opera singer, but ended up teaching and writing to pay the bills. She wrote more than fifty novels, established a fantasy magazine (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine) that was the first publishing home for many aspiring writers, and edited numerous anthologies, particularly including the Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies.

Names

Numerous pseudonyms under which she wrote gay stuff in the 60s and porn.

• Lee Chapman
• John Dexter
• Miriam Gardner
• Valerie Graves
• Morgan Ives
• John J. Wells

Works

Darkover series (in Darkover chronology, not publication order)

• Darkover Landfall (1972)

• Stormqueen! (1978)
• Thunderlord! (never published)

• Two to Conquer (1980)
• The Fall of Neskaya (2001; with Deborah J. Ross)
• Hawkmistress! (1982)
• Zandru's Forge (2003; with Deborah J. Ross)
• A Flame in Hali (2004; with Deborah J. Ross)
• The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)

• The Shattered Chain (1975; published in an omnibus with Thendara House as The Oath of the Renunciates)
• Thendara House (1983; published in an omnibus with The Shattered Chain as The Oath of the Renunciates)
• City of Sorcery (1984)

• Rediscovery (1993; with Mercedes Lackey)
• The Spell Sword (1974)
• The Forbidden Tower (1977)
• Star of Danger (1965)
• Winds of Darkover (1970)

• The Bloody Sun (1979)
• The Heritage of Hastur1975)
• The Planet Savers (1962)
• Sharra's Exile (1981) (rewritten version of The Sword of Aldones (1962)
• Reluctant King (not yet published)
• The World Wreckers (1971)
• Exile's Song (1996; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
• Shadow Matrix (1998; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
• Traitor's Sun (1999; with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)

• Editor, The Keeper's Price (1980)
• Editor, Sword of Chaos (1982)
• Editor, Free Amazons of Darkover (1985)
• Editor, The Other Side of the Mirror (1987)
• Editor, Red Sun of Darkover (1987)
• Editor, Four Moons of Darkover (1987)
• Editor, Domains of Darkover (1990)
• Editor, Renunciates of Darkover (1991)
• Editor, Leroni of Darkover (1991)
• Editor, Towers of Darkover (1993)
• Editor, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (1993)
  • Includes To Keep the Oath
• Editor, Snows of Darkover (1994)
  • Includes To Keep the Oath

Avalon series

• The Mists of Avalon (1983)
• The Forest House (1994)
• Lady of Avalon (1997)
• Priestess of Avalon (2001)

Other works

• The Firebrand (1987)
• The Ruins of Isis (1978)
• Lythande (1986 collection)

Editor, Sword and Sorceress series

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