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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.

Series

Darkover
1. Darkover Landfall (1972)
2. Stormqueen! (1978) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
6. Hawkmistress! (1982)
7. Two to Conquer (1980)
8. The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
10. The Shattered Chain (1976)
11. The Spell Sword (1974)
12. The Forbidden Tower (1977)
13. Thendara House (1983)
14. City of Sorcery (1984)
15. Star of Danger (1965)
16. Winds of Darkover (1970)
17. The Bloody Sun (1964)
18. The Heritage of Hastur (1975)
19. The Planet Savers (1962)
20. The Sword of Aldones (1962)
20. Rediscovery (1993) (with Mercedes Lackey)
21. Sharra's Exile (1981)
22. The World Wreckers (1971)
23. Hastur Lord (2010) (with Deborah J Ross)
24. Exile's Song (1994) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
25. The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
26. Traitor's Sun (1999) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (1993)
Oathbreaker (2009)
The Darkover eBook Collection (omnibus) (2013)
A Sword Called Chaos (2013)
The Children of Kings (2013) (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 (1991) (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
1. Web of Light (1983)
2. Web of Darkness (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)

Lythande Short Stories
The Gratitude of Kings (1997)
Somebody Else's Magic (2010)
The Wandering Lute (2010)
Sea Wrack (2011)
The Walker Behind (2011)
The Wuzzles (2011)
To Kill the Undead (2011)
Bitch (2011)
The Virgin and the Volcano (2011) (with Elisabeth Waters)

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)

Darkover Short Stories
The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda (2009)
Blood Will Tell (2009)
A Man of Impulse (2009)
Bonds of Sisterhood (2009)
Bride Price (2009)
Everything But Freedom (2009)
Lesson of the Inn (2009)
Firetrap (2009) (with Elisabeth Waters)
The Hawkmaster's Son (2009)
Hilary's Homecoming (2009)
Hilary's Wedding (2009)
House Rules (2009)
Knives (2009)
Legend of Lady Bruna (2009)
The Shadow (2009)
Ten Minutes or So (2009)
To Keep the Oath (2009)
The Word of a Hastur (2009)

Novels

Omnibus

The Door Through Space / Rendezvous on a Lost World (1972)
Planet Savers / Year of the Big Thaw (2011)
The Door Through / Year of Big Thaw (2011)

Collections

Novellas

The Parting of Arwen (1974)
Moonfire (2011)
The Stars Are Waiting (2011)
The Once and Future Merlin (2012)

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

Darkover Anthology
1. The Keeper's Price (1980)
2. Sword of Chaos (1982)
3. Free Amazons of Darkover (1985)
4. The Other Side of the Mirror (1987)
5. Red Sun of Darkover (1987)
6. Four Moons of Darkover (1988)
7. Domains of Darkover (1990)
8. Renunciates of Darkover (1991)
9. Leroni of Darkover (1991)
10. Towers of Darkover (1993)
11. Snows of Darkover (1994)

Anthologies edited

Greyhaven (1983) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
Spells of Wonder (1989)
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (1994)
Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine - Volume 2 (2009)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Worlds (2012) (with Rachel E Holmen)

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) (with Alfred Bester and Norman Spinrad)
The Necessity for Beauty: Robert W. Chambers & the Romantic Tradition (2009) (see Robert W Chambers)

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 [short story] (1957)
	A Dozen of Everything (1959)
	The Wind People (1959)
	The Wild One (1960)
	Treason of the Blood (1962)
	The Jewel of Arwen [short story] (1973)
	The Day of the Butterflies (1976)
	Hero's Moon (1976)
	The Engine (1977)
	The Keeper's Price [short story] (1978)
	The Lesson of the Inn (1978)
	The Secret of the Blue Star (1979)
	To Keep the Oath [short story] (1979)
	Blood Will Tell [short story] (1980)
	Elbow Room (1980)
	The Hawk-Master's Son (1980)
	The Pledged Word (1983)
	The Shadow [short story] (1984)
	Knives [short story] (1985)
	Everything but Freedom [short story] (1987)
	Oathbreaker (1987)
	The Walker Behind [short story] (1987)
	House Rules [short story] (1988)
	Man of Impulse (1988)
	Firetrap [short story] (1990)
	Amazon Fragment (1991)
	Hilary's Homecoming [short story] (1993)
	Hilary's Wedding [short story] (1993)
	Jamie [short story] (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 (1982) 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."	The Unlikely Ones (1986) (Pigs Don't Fly, book 1) Mary Brown "Really wonderful...I shall read and re-read this one."	Sword-Dancer (1986) (Sword-Dancer, book 1) Jennifer Roberson "This is wonderful...tough, touching...and superb."
Slob (1987) (Chaingang, book 1) 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 (1991) Charles de Lint "One of the most fascinating books of this decade."	The Forever King (1992) (Forever King, book 1) Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy "Books like this don't come along very often."	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 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."	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 Madagascar Manifesto (2002) (Madagascar Manifesto) Janet Berliner and George Guthridge "A shocking yet warmly human story. Very much worth reading."
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."

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