Sword and Sorceress

Name: Sword and Sorceress
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Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN: 9780879979287

by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah Wheeler, Diana L. Paxson, Dorothy J. Heydt, Phyllis Ann Karr, Stephen L. Burns, Emma Bull, Charles R. Saunders, Charles de Lint, Pat Murphy, Anodea Judith, Robin Wayne Bailey, Victoria Lisi-Poyser, Janet Fox, Various, Michael Ward, Glen Cook, Jennifer Roberson

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255 pages1986DAWISBN 9780879979287

Fantasy Fiction

About this book

The author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the best-selling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world. Here are new stories of warrior women and mistresses of magic, stories of adventure and derring-do, written by such as Glen Cook, Phyllis Ann Karr, Charles R Saunders, Jennifer Roberson, Diana Paxson, and many more. Marion Zimmer Bradley writes in her introduction: "Valor has neither race nor color - nor does it have gender...Anyone can write male sexist fiction; anyone can write feminist propaganda. I hop to avoid either and to entertain you while I'm doing it." Here she has succeeded!

Publication Details

Publisher: DAW
Published: 1986
Pages: 255
ISBN: 9780879979287
Language: en

About Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1967 she moved to Staten Island, New York. She separated from her second husband in 1979 but remained married and continued a business relationship, until 1990 when he was arrested on child molestation charges and they divorced. After suffering declining health for years, she died in Berkeley in 1999. In 2000, she was awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.