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Free Amazons of Darkover

by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Susan Holtzer, Jaida n'ha Sandra, Diana L. Paxson, Mercedes Lackey, Nina Boal, Barbara Armistead, Jane M.H. Bigelow, Patricia Shaw Mathews, Margaret L. Carter, Elisabeth Waters, Joan Marie Verba, Maureen Shannon, Margaret Silvestri, P. Alexandra Riggs, Walter Breen, Richard Hescox, Shery Kramer, Susan M. Schwartz, Deborah J. Wheeler

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304 pages1985DAWISBN 9780886770969

About this book

This collection of eighteen fantasy tales focuses on the adventures of the Free Amazons, a group of remarkable women who have set themselves apart from the male-dominated world of Darkover

Publication Details

Publisher
DAW
Published
1985
Pages
304
ISBN
9780886770969
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.

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