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Marion Zimmer Bradley

(1930 - 1999)
(Sister of Paul Edwin Zimmer)
aka
Lee Chapman, John Dexter, Miriam Gardner, Morgan Ives

About Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.

Writing for over 4 decades, she is best known for her Darkover science fantasy series and her Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon. She also edited anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine.

She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Sword of Avalon
(Avalon, book 7)

Hastur Lord
(Darkover)

Series

Darkover
The Planet Savers (1962)
The Sword of Aldones (1962)
The Bloody Sun (1964)
Star of Danger (1965)
Winds of Darkover (1970)
The World Wreckers (1971)
Darkover Landfall (1972)
The Spell Sword (1974)
The Heritage of Hastur (1975)
The Shattered Chain (1976)
The Forbidden Tower (1977)
Stormqueen! (1978) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
The Keeper's Price (1980)
Two to Conquer (1980)
Sharra's Exile (1981)
Hawkmistress! (1982)
Sword of Chaos (1982)
Thendara House (1983)
City of Sorcery (1984)
Free Amazons of Darkover (1985)
Warrior Woman (1985)
The Other Side of the Mirror (1987)
Red Sun of Darkover (1987)
Four Moons of Darkover (1988)
The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
Domains of Darkover (1990)
Leroni of Darkover (1991)
Renunciates of Darkover (1991)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (1993)
Rediscovery (1993) (with Mercedes Lackey)
Towers of Darkover (1993)
Snows of Darkover (1994)
Exile's Song (1996) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
Traitor's Sun (1998) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
Hastur Lord (2010) (with Deborah J Ross)

Claire Moffatt
1. Dark Satanic (1972)
2. The Inheritor (1984)
3. Witch Hill (1990)

Hunters (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
1. Hunters of the Red Moon (1973)
2. The Survivors (1979)

Sixth Sense
2. In the Steps of the Master (1973)

Avalon
1. The Mists of Avalon (1979)
2. The Forest House (1993) (with Diana L Paxson)
aka The Forests of Avalon
3. Lady of Avalon (1997) (with Diana L Paxson)
4. Priestess of Avalon (2000) (with Diana L Paxson)
5. The Ancestors of Avalon (2004) (with Diana L Paxson)
6. Ravens of Avalon (2007) (with Diana L Paxson)
7. Sword of Avalon (2009) (with Diana L Paxson)

Web of Light
Web of Darkness (1982)
Web of Light (1983)
The Fall of Atlantis (omnibus) (1987)

Mists of Avalon
1. The High Queen (1994)
2. The King Stag (1994)
3. Mistress of Magic (1994)
4. The Prisoner in the Oak (1994)

Witchlight
1. Ghostlight (1995)
2. Witchlight (1996)
3. Gravelight (1997)
4. Heartlight (1998)

Glenraven (with Holly Lisle)
1. Glenraven (1996)
2. In the Rift (1998)

Clingfire (with Deborah J Ross)
1. The Fall of Neskaya (2001)
2. Zandru's Forge (2003)
3. A Flame in Hali (2004)

Children of Kings (with Deborah J Ross)
1. The Alton Gift (2007)

Novels

Falcons of Narabedla (1957)
Seven from the Stars (1961)
The Door Through Space (1961)
I am a Lesbian (1962) (writing as Lee Chapman)
The Colors Of Space (1963)
My Sister, My Love (1963) (writing as Miriam Gardner)
Spare Her Heaven (1963) (writing as Morgan Ives)
Anything Goes (1964) (writing as Morgan Ives)
Twilight Lovers (1964) (writing as Miriam Gardner)
Castle Terror (1965)
Knives of Desire (1966) (writing as Morgan Ives)
No Adam for Eve (1966) (writing as John Dexter)
Souvenir of Monique (1967)
The Strange Women (1967) (writing as Miriam Gardner)
Bluebeard's Daughter (1968)
The Brass Dragon (1969)
The Jewel of Arwen (1974)
Can Ellen Be Saved (1975)
The Endless Voyage (1975)
aka The Endless Universe
Drums of Darkness (1976)
Haunted Spaceship (1977)
The Ruins of Isis (1978)
The Catch Trap (1979)
The House Between the Worlds (1980)
Survey Ship (1980)
Night's Daughter (1985)
Lythande (1986)
The FireBrand (1987)
Tiger Burning Bright (1995) (with Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton)
The Gratitude of Kings (1997)

Collections

The Dark Intruder: And Other Stories (1964)
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985)
Jamie: And Other Stories (1988)

Novellas

The Parting of Arwen (1974)

Series contributed to

Trillium
1. Black Trillium (1990) (with Julian May and Andre Norton)
3. Golden Trillium (1993) (with Julian May and Andre Norton)
4. Lady of the Trillium (1995)

Anthology series

Anthologies edited

Greyhaven (1983) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
Spells of Wonder (1989)
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (1995)

Non fiction

Checklist: A complete, cumulative checklist of lesbian, variant, and homosexual fiction (1960)
The Darkover Cookbook (1977)
Experiment Perilous: Three Essays on Science Fiction (1983)

Anthologies containing stories by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Short stories

	Centaurus Changeling (1954)
	The Climbing Wave (1955)
	Exiles of Tomorrow (1955)
	Death Between the Stars (1956)
	Bird of Prey (1957)
	A Dozen of Everything (1959)
	The Wind People (1959)
	The Wild One (1960)
	Treason of the Blood (1962)
	The Jewel of Arwen (1973)
	The Day of the Butterflies (1976)
	Hero's Moon (1976)
	The Engine (1977)
	The Keeper's Price (1978) (with Elisabeth Waters)
	The Lesson of the Inn (1978)
	The Secret of the Blue Star (1979)
	To Keep the Oath (1979)
	Blood Will Tell (1980)
	Elbow Room (1980)
	The Hawk-Master's Son (1980)
	The Pledged Word (1983)
	The Shadow (1984)
	Knives (1985)
	Everything but Freedom (1987)
	Oathbreaker (1987)
	The Walker Behind (1987)
	House Rules (1988)
	Man of Impulse (1988)
	Firetrap (1990) (with Elisabeth Waters)
	Amazon Fragment (1991)
	Hilary's Homecoming (1993)
	Hilary's Wedding (1993)
	Jamie (1993)
	Here There Be Dragons? (1995)
	To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1996)

Awards

	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1963) : The Sword of Aldones
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Heritage of Hastur
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1978) : The Forbidden Tower
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1983) : The Mists of Avalon
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1984) : Thendara House
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (2000)

Books about Marion Zimmer Bradley

Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McAffrey : Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1981) by Rosemarie Arbur
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1991) by Phil Stephensen-Payne

Links to other websites

Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust

Marion Zimmer Bradley recommends

The Dark World (1946) Henry Kuttner "I consider the work of Henry Kuttner to be the finest science fantasy ever written."	Poor Tom's Ghost (1977) Jane Louise Curry "The best children's fantasies of which this is definitely one - offer no insult to the intelligence of the adult reader. If you buy this for your pre-teenager and don't read it for yourself, you are missing a memorable reading experience, and a very poignant evocation of the pre-adolescent mind."	Watchtower (1979) (Tornor, book 1) Elizabeth A Lynn "Marvelous."
The Dragon Waiting (1983) John M Ford "I read it with delight, wonder, and fascination. The book plays, with a truly wonderful seriousness, the game of fantasy and history. I love it."	Sword-Dancer (1986) (Sword-Dancer, book 1) Jennifer Roberson "This is wonderful...tough, touching...and superb."	The Unlikely Ones (1986) (Pigs Don't Fly) Mary Brown "Really wonderful...I shall read and re-read this one."
Slob (1987) (Chaingang) Rex Miller "Rex Miller is terrific. Slob scratches itches I didn't know I had. I'm looking forward to the next Jack Eichord book."	Unquenchable Fire (1988) (Unquenchable Fire, book 1) Rachel Pollack "Surrealistic, imaginative, wildly original!"	Children of the Night (1990) (Diana Tregarde, book 2) Mercedes Lackey "Easily one of the best things I've read for a couple of years. I loved it."
The Little Country (1990) Charles de Lint "One of the most fascinating books of this decade."	The Forever King (1991) (Forever King, book 1) Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy "Books like this don't come along very often."	The Skystone (1992) (Camulod, book 1) Jack Whyte "It's one of the most interesting historical novels that I've ever read and I've read plenty."
Lady of the Forest (1992) (Robin Hood , book 1) Jennifer Roberson "A beautiful synthesis of all the Robin Hood legends and probably the best book I have read all year."	The Year the Horses Came (1993) (Earthsong, book 1) Mary Mackey "A fascinating prehistoric world... the best of its kind."	The Prince of Ill Luck (1994) (Warhorse of Estragon, book 1) Susan Dexter "One of the most delightfully funny books I've read in my life."
Daughter of Prophecy (1995) (Power and the Pattern, book 1) Anne Kelleher Bush "Fascinating - a most ingenious blend of science fiction and fantasy."	Met by Moonlight (1998) Rosemary Edghill "A story of true magic... It's been many years since I've read anything with such power and passion."	The Otherworld (2000) Mercedes Lackey, Holly Lisle and Mark Shepherd "A writer whose work I've loved all along."
Lords of Rainbow (2002) Vera Nazarian "...like all of Vera's stories - strange, poignant, and exquisite... her novel about a world without color - strange when what she writes is so colorful."	The Madagascar Manifesto (2002) (Madagascar Manifesto) Janet Berliner and George Guthridge "A shocking yet warmly human story. Very much worth reading."

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