Marion Zimmer Bradley

Popular fantasy writer Marion Zimmer Bradley (born 1930) is considered a pioneer in the field of woman-based science fiction, creating strong, independent female protagonists in her many popular novels and short stories.

Beginning her career in the 1950s, author Marion Zimmer Bradley has built almost a cult following on the heels of her popular "Darkover" books. While largely ignored by mainstream reviewers, Bradley's fiction has been embraced by her fans as what Feminist Writers essayist Nancy Jesser calls "one of the early manifestations of proto-feminist science fiction." In her writing, the prolific Bradley has worked in several genres, including Gothic novels, teleplays, children's books, lesbian novels, and bibliographies of gay and lesbian fiction. She addresses such issues as gender, technology, alienation, the evolution of society, culture, and human relationships by placing her characters in highly imaginary worlds, many with a Celtic flavor.

Began Professional Writing Career at Age 17

Bradley, who was born in Albany, New York, on June 3, 1930, knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer. Fascinated by the science-fiction writing of the era, she started her own amateur science-fiction magazine before she was even out of high school. However, Bradley was too practical to think that a young woman could make writing her life's work; after graduating from high school she enrolled at New York State College with the intention of becoming a teacher. But her marriage to Robert Alden Bradley in 1949 would put a halt to these career plans, and the birth of a son would occupy much of her time during the 1950s. It was not until 1964 that the industrious Bradley completed her education, graduating from Abilene, Texas's Hardin-Simmons University with a triple bachelor's degree in English, Spanish, and psychology. She then attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley for another three years. Meanwhile, she continued to write, composing short stories and experimenting with longer works containing science-fiction and fantasy elements.

In 1949, the same year she got married, Bradley sold her first story to a sci-fi publication. Three years later she began what she considers her "professional" writing career, with the sale of yet another story to the magazine Vortex Science Fiction. Throughout the remainder of the 1950s she managed to juggle the demands of motherhood-at the time moms were expected to stay at home-with her desire to write. Bradley would not publish her first full-length book until 1961, when the sci-fi novel The Door through Space was released. This novel seemed to open a floodgate for Bradley; in 1962 alone her byline would appear on five different volumes: three novels under her own name and two other works under various pseudonyms. While readers might marvel at how Bradley could be so prolific, at least one of the novels published in 1962-The Planet Savers-had actually made its first appearance serialized in the pages of Amazing Science Fiction Stories three years earlier. Now in book form, The Planet Savers would become the first of Bradley's "Darkover" novels.

The World of Darkover

The 20 novels that comprise the bulk of the "Darkover" series are among Bradley's most popular works of fiction. The series is named after a lost colony wherein social habits and technology develop independently of the earthlings who established it because it was overlooked for many generations. In addition to developing psychic abilities, Darkoverians have divided along gender lines: a patriarchal society exists apart from a woman-centered society of "Free Amazons." In Bradley's futuristic world, nothing is gained without sacrifice. According to Susan M. Shwartz in The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It, "For every gain, there is a risk; choice involves a testing of will and courage … on Darkover any attempt at change of progress carries with it the need for pain-filled choice." Clearly, to survive within such a world Bradley's protagonists-particularly the female characters her readers most closely identify with-must be strong, intelligent, and determined.

Among the most popular Darkover novels are 1965's Star of Danger, 1976's The Shattered Chain, and Heirs of Hammerfell, a more recent work published in 1989. The Shattered Chain is agreed upon by most critics as among the best of the series. It is the story of a quest, a traditional story form in which the main character must surmount a series of obstacles on her way to achieving her goals. In Bradley's version, Lady Rohana, a member of the privileged ruling class, attempts to free a friend from a tribe of men who chain women up to demonstrate their power over them. To accomplish her task, Rohana gains the help of the Free Amazons, but only at the cost of reassessing her own life and values.

The Darkover novels occupied much of Bradley's time during the 1960s and 1970s, although she also managed to find the time to publish a collection of short fiction, The Dark Intruder and Other Stories, as well as several volumes of literary criticism. Bradley's personal life was undergoing transition during this period as well; she divorced her first husband in 1964, and married for a second time shortly thereafter. She and her second husband, Walter Henry Breen, would raise three children (Bradley's son from her first marriage, plus a son and daughter of their own) before divorcing in 1990. The demands of parenthood on her limited time may have multiplied, but they did little to staunch Bradley's enthusiasm for writing-or her published output. Perhaps these demands are at the root of her efforts to find, through the dilemmas of her fictional female protagonists, that ideal balance between a woman's duty to self and her obligations to others. She published over 30 books between 1965 and 1980, and in 1984 undertook a long-term project: editing a series of short-story collections for New York-based DAW publishers under the Sword and Sorceress title.

A Sci-Fi Writer in King Arthur's Court

Hailed by several critics as Bradley's most notable novel, The Mists of Avalon was published in 1983 and remained on the New York Times best-seller list for 16 weeks. Taking place in Arthurian Britain, called Britannia, the novel features such well-known female characters as Morgan Le Fay and the Lady of the Lake, given heightened strength of will under Bradley's pen as they perform their parts in the tragic legend of King Arthur. Although published afterward, the novels The Forest House and Lady of Avalon serve as precursors to The Mists of Avalon, detailing the chain of events leading up to the events surrounding Bradley's version of the King Arthur legend. The Forest House tells of the relationship between the priestess Eilan and Gaius Marcellius, an officer in the Roman occupation army with whom she conceives a son, Gawan. Lady of Avalon finds Britannia now firmly ruled by the Romans, with Christian priests working to gain strides with the population against the ancient Druidic religions. In The Mists of Avalon-a lengthy volume of over 850 pages-the Arthurian legends are retold from the perspective of the enchantress Morgaine, a follower of the ways of wicca and a priestess of the ancient Goddess religion. Despite her powers, Morgaine is unable to defend the ancient goddesses against the inexorable crush of Christianity, and her failure embitters her. She must watch as womankind reverts from a respected sex to a berated one, condemned as the source of original sin by the patriarchal Christian teachings.

Fantasy as a Means to Discover a Different Truth

Women of another quasi-mythic period of history fall under Bradley's scrutiny in The Firebrand, which she published in 1987. Taking the written history surrounding the Trojan War as her starting point, Bradley weaves a tale of heroism as Kassandra, daughter of the King of Troy and an Amazon, attempts to save her kingdom from patriarchal Dorian invaders. In this novel, as in much of her work, Bradley constructs an alternative to the male-dominated "reality" passed down through traditional written histories. She admitted in an interview with Lisa See of Publishers Weekly that the transition from the bronze to the iron age did indeed cause the destruction of such Cretan cities as Mycenae, the home of the legendary ruler Agamemnon. But Bradley believes that in viewing this period of history objectively-"as though no one had ever written about [it] before"-another history is revealed. "Here were two cultures that should have been ruled by female twins-Helen and Klytemnestra," she stated to See. "And what do you know? When they married Menelaus and Agamemnon, the men took over their cities." This interest in viewing the past through a different perspective-a perspective that might ultimately reveal hidden truths-is at the heart of Bradley's intent as a writer.

In response to her many fans, Bradley began the Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine in 1988. While she has remained active as an editor, working on her magazine as well as editing the annual Sword and Sorcery anthology for DAW, her output as a novelist has decreased in recent years due to health issues. Still, imaginative fictions such as 1995's Ghostlight and its sequel, Witchlight, continue to issue from Bradley's pen on occasion, to the pleasure of her many fans. Interestingly, from her home in Berkeley, California, Bradley has also managed to extend the Darkover saga beyond her own novels by inviting others to create their own vision of her mythic world. Under her editorship, anthologies such as Domains of Darkover and Towers of Darkover allow other writers to navigate Bradley's fantastic worlds, taking new paths, creating characters with fresh viewpoints, and entertaining readers with alternative renditions of Bradley's sci-fi saga.

Further Reading

Arbur, Rosemarie, Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, Hall, 1982.

Feminist Writers, St. James Press, 1996, pp. 60-63.

Spivak, Charlotte, Merlin's Daughters: Contemporary Women Writers of Fantasy, Greenwood Press, 1987.

Staicar, Tom, editor, The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It, F. Ungar, 1982.

Wise, S., The Darkover Dilemma: Problems of the Darkover Series, T-K Graphics, 1976.

Extrapolation, summer 1993.

Journal of Popular Culture, summer 1993, pp. 67-80.

Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 3, 1983.

Publishers Weekly, October 30, 1987.

Science Fiction Review, summer, 1983.

New York Times Book Review, January 30, 1983.

West Coast Review of Books, number 5, 1986.

Marion Zimmer Bradley Homepage, http://www.mzb.fm.com (March 15, 1998).

Marion Zimmer Bradley, popular writer of fantasy fiction with occult themes, was born on June 3, 1930, in Albany, New York. Her literary skills manifested in her childhood, and at the age of 11 she founded an alternative school newspaper. The choice of themes in her works was heavily influenced by her early interests in magic, mythology, and Arthurian legends. She attended the New York State Teachers College for three years, during which time she married Robert A. Bradley (1949). The Bradleys moved to Texas, where he worked on the railroad and she bore their first child. She also joined the AMORC Rosicrucians, from whom she received her initial occult training.

Bradley began her serious writing during the early 1950s. She published a few pieces of short fiction and finally in 1955, her first novel, Seven from the Stars, appeared. In 1959 she separated from her husband and moved to Abilene, Texas, where she finished college at Hardin Simmons University. By the time she graduated, her novels were selling so well that she was able to become a full-time author. In 1963 she moved to Berkeley, California. The following year she divorced her husband and married Walter Breen. In 1963, Breen had been consecrated as a bishop in the Evangelical Catholic Communion, an independent liturgical church, in which he was named Bishop of Berkeley. Bradley and Breen joined in the formation of a new occult group, the Aquarian Order of the Restoration, dedicated to restoring worship to the Goddess. The group, which at its height had less than 20 members, continued until 1982.

In the late 1970s Bradley joined with a number of other women in the Bay Area to form what became known as The Dark Circle. Though primarily a women's group and not a witchcraft coven, it did include Wiccans among its members. Bradley withdrew after several years, but her participation fueled speculation that she was a Wiccan, a fact that she vehemently denied. Speculation peaked following the publication of her most successful book, The Mists of Avalon (1983), a retelling of the King Arthur legend from a feminist perspective. It has appeared on many Pagan reading lists and reviewers suggested that much of it must have come by way of channeling. In response, Bradley asserted her Christian beliefs (though of a somewhat feminist and unorthodox variety), and the lack of any channeled material in her work. She also believed that a return to an agricultural religion in an age of high technology did not make sense.

Bradley emerged at the top of her profession in the 1990s. In 1988 she launched a periodical, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. She continued to write bestselling novels known for featuring strong women characters; edited an annual anthology, Sword and Sorceress; and left several unfinished manuscripts in the works at the time of her death in Berkeley on September 25, 1999.

Sources:

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Lady of Avalon. New York: Viking, 1997.

——. Mists of Avalon. New York: Del Rey, 1983, 1987. Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft. New York: Facts on File, 1989.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Born	June 3, 1930(1930-06-03) Albany, NY, USA
Died	September 25, 1999 (aged 69) Berkeley, CA, USA
Pen name	Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman
Occupation	Novelist, Editor
Nationality	United States
Genres	Fantasy, Science fiction
Official website

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook. Her first child, David R. Bradley, and her brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer were also published science fiction & fantasy authors in their own right.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Religion 1.2 Death 2 Literary career 3 Bibliography 3.1 Novels 3.2 Short story collections 3.3 Series 3.4 Anthologies 3.5 Novels under pen names 3.6 Poems 3.7 Music 3.8 Editorial positions 3.9 Scholarly work 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex magazine in 1952. She was married to Robert Alden Bradley from October 26, 1949 until their divorce on May 19, 1964. They had a son, David Robert Bradley (1950 – 2008). During the 1950s she was introduced to the cultural and campaigning lesbian group the Daughters of Bilitis. After her divorce she married numismatist Walter H. Breen on June 3, 1964. They separated in 1979 but remained married, and continued a business relationship and lived on the same street for over a decade. They officially divorced on May 9, 1990, the year Breen was arrested on child molestation charges.^[1] She had known about Breen's sexual interests and previously accepted his sexual affair with a 14 year old boy. ^[2] Her daughter by Breen, Moira Stern, is a professional harpist and singer.

In 1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Afterward, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley between 1965 and 1967. In 1966, she helped found and named the Society for Creative Anachronism and was involved in developing several local groups, including in New York after her move to Staten Island.

Religion

In the 1980's Bradley was a neopagan but by the 1990's she was a devout Episcopalian telling an interviewer: "I just go regularly to the Episcopalian church. . . . That pagan thing....I feel that I've gotten past it. I would like people to explore the possibilities."

After her death her co-author confirmed that for a number of years Bradley had indeed been a faithful Christian.

Death

After suffering declining health for years, Bradley died at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a debilitating heart attack. Her ashes were scattered at Glastonbury Tor, in Somerset, England, two months later.

Literary career

Bradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.

Early in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms.

Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by herself, but in her later years collaborated with other authors for publication; her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death.

Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture. In 1966, Bradley became a cofounder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and is credited with coining the name of that group. In the 1970s, as part of the contemporary wave of enthusiasm for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, she wrote two short fanfic stories about Arwen and published them in chapbook format; one of them, "The Jewel of Arwen", also appeared in her professional anthology The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985), although it was dropped from later reprints.

For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.

Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including males in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death.

Probably her most famous single novel is The Mists of Avalon. A retelling of the Camelot legend from the point of view of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, it grew into a series of books; like the Darkover series, the later novels are written with or by other authors and have continued to appear after Bradley's death.

In 2000, she was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.

Bibliography

Novels

• Falcons of Narabedla (1957)
• The Door Through Space (1961)
• Seven from the Stars (1961)
• The Colours Of Space (1963)
• Castle Terror (1965)
• Souvenir of Monique (1967)
• Bluebeard's Daughter (1968)
• The Brass Dragon (1970)
• In the Steps of the Master - The Sixth Sense #2 (1973) (based on television series The Sixth Sense, created by Anthony Lawrence)
• The Jewel of Arwen (1974) (novelette)
• The Parting of Arwen (1974) (novelette)
• Can Ellen Be Saved? ([1975]) (adaptation of a teleplay by Emmett Roberts)
• The Endless Voyage (1975)
• Drums of Darkness (1976)
• Ruins of Isis (1978)
• The Catch Trap (1979)
• The Endless Universe (1979) (rewrite of The Endless Voyage)
• The House Between the Worlds (1980)
• Survey Ship (1980)
• The Colors of Space (1983) (unabridged edition)
• Night's Daughter (1985)
• Warrior Woman (1987)
• The Firebrand (1987)
• Black Trillium (1990) (with Julian May and Andre Norton)
• Lady of the Trillium (1995)
• Tiger Burning Bright (1995) (with Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton)
• The Gratitude of Kings (1997) (with Elisabeth Waters)

Short story collections

• The Dark Intruder and Other Stories (1964)
• The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985)
• Jamie and Other Stories (1988)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (Darkover collection) (1993)

Series

• Atlantean series
  • Web of Light (1983)
  • Web of Darkness (1983)
  • The Fall of Atlantis (1987) (omnibus edition of Web of Light and Web of Darkness)

• Avalon Series
  • The Mists of Avalon (1979)
    • Mistress of Magic (audiobook edition of The Mists of Avalon, part 1) (1994)
    • The High Queen (audiobook edition of The Mists of Avalon, part 2) (1994)
    • The King Stag (audiobook edition of The Mists of Avalon, part 3) (1994)
    • The Prisoner in the Oak (audiobook edition of The Mists of Avalon, part 4) (1994)
  • The Forest House (1993) (with Diana L. Paxson) (also now known as The Forests of Avalon)
  • Lady of Avalon (1997) (with Diana L. Paxson)
  • Priestess of Avalon (2000) (with Diana L. Paxson)
  • Ancestors of Avalon (2004) (written by Diana L. Paxson)
  • Ravens of Avalon (2007) (written by Diana L. Paxson)
  • Sword of Avalon (forthcoming in 2009) (written by Diana L. Paxson)

• Colin MacLaren series
  • Witch Hill (1972)
  • The Inheritor (1984)
  • Dark Satanic (1988)
  • Heartlight (1998)

• Shadow's Gate series (with Rosemary Edghill)
  • Ghostlight (1995)
  • Witchlight (1996)
  • Gravelight (1997)
  • Heartlight (1998)

• Darkover series (See: List of Darkover books for complete details)
  • The Planet Savers (1958)
  • The Sword of Aldones (1962)
  • The Bloody Sun (1964)
  • Star of Danger (1965)
  • The Winds of Darkover (1970)
  • The World Wreckers (1971)
  • Darkover Landfall (1972)
  • The Spell Sword (1974) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer (uncredited))
  • The Heritage of Hastur (1975)
  • The Shattered Chain (1976)
  • The Forbidden Tower (1977)
  • Stormqueen! (1978)
  • The Bloody Sun (1979) rewritten and expanded edition
  • Two To Conquer (1980)
  • Sharra's Exile (1981)
  • Hawkmistress! (1982)
  • Thendara House (1983)
  • City of Sorcery (1984)
  • The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
  • Rediscovery (1993) (with Mercedes Lackey)
  • Exile's Song (1996) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
  • The Shadow Matrix (1997) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
  • Traitor's Sun (1999) (with Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
  • The Clingfire trilogy
    • The Fall of Neskaya (2001) (with Deborah J. Ross)
    • Zandru's Forge (2003) (with Deborah J. Ross)
    • A Flame in Hali (2004) (with Deborah J. Ross)
  • Modern Darkover (also known as The Children of Kings trilogy) (written principally by Deborah J. Ross)
    • The Alton Gift (2007)

• • Omnibus editions
    • The Children of Hastur (omnibus edition of The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile) (1982)
    • The Oath of Renuciates (omnibus edition of The Shattered Chain and Thendara House) (1984)
    • The Darkover Saga (a slipcase set containing Hawkmistress, Sharra's Exile; The Shattered Chain; Stormqueen!; Sword of Chaos) (1984)
    • The Ages of Chaos (omnibus edition of Stormqueen! and Hawkmistress!) (2002)
    • The Forbidden Circle (omnibus edition of the Spell Sword and The Forbidden Tower ) (2002)
    • Heritage And Exile (omnibus edition of The Heritage of Hastur and Sharra's Exile) (2002)
    • The Saga of the Renunciates (omnibus edition of The Shattered Chain, Thendara House and City of Sorcery) (2002)
    • A World Divided (omnibus edition of Star of Danger, Winds of Darkover and The Bloody Sun) (2003)
    • First Contact (omnibus edition of Darkover Landfall and Two to Conquer) (2004)
    • To Save a World (omnibus edition of The Planet Savers and World Wreckers) (2004)

• Glenraven series (with Holly Lisle)
  • Glenraven (1996)
  • In the Rift (1998)

• Survivors series(with Paul Edwin Zimmer)
  • Hunters of the Red Moon (1973)
  • The Survivors (1979)

Anthologies

• The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (1994)
• The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine — Vol. II (1995) (with Elisabeth Waters)

• Darkover anthologies (edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, with some short stories by her, but mostly by other writers)
  • The Keeper's Price (1980)
  • Sword of Chaos (1982)
  • Free Amazons of Darkover (1985)
  • The Other Side of the Mirror (1987)
  • Red Sun of Darkover (1987)
  • Four Moons of Darkover (1988)
  • Domains of Darkover (1990)
  • Renunciates of Darkover (1991)
  • Leroni of Darkover (1991)
  • Towers of Darkover (1993)
  • Snows of Darkover (1994)

• Greyhaven (1983) (with Paul Edwin Zimmer)

• Lythande (1986) (with Vonda N. McIntyre)

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (1988-2000)
  • See Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine for details.

• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Worlds (1998)

• Spells of Wonder (1989)

• Sword and Sorceress series (1984-2008) (edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, after her death by Elisabeth Waters and Diana L. Paxson)
  • See Sword and Sorceress series for details.

Novels under pen names

• Writing under the pseudonym Lee Chapman
  • I am a Lesbian (1962)
• Writing under the pseudonym John Dexter
  • No Adam for Eve (1966)
• Writing under the pseudonym Miriam Gardner
  • My Sister, My Love (1963)
  • Twilight Lovers (1964)
  • The Strange Women (1967)
• Writing under the pseudonym Morgan Ives
  • Spare Her Heaven (1963)
  • Anything Goes (1964)
  • Knives of Desire (1966)

Poems

• The Maenads (1978)

Music

• Songs from Rivendell (a.k.a. The Rivendell Suite) music and arrangements for several poems from the novel The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1960)

Editorial positions

• The Darkover Newsletter (1975 to early 1990s)
• Starstone a Darkover fanzine (5 issues 1978-1982)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine (50 issues 1988 - 2000)

Scholarly work

• Bradley, M.Z. "Feminine equivalents of Greek Love in modern fiction". International Journal of Greek Love, Vol.1, No.1. (1965). Pages 48-58.
• Checklist: A complete, cumulative checklist of lesbian, variant, and homosexual fiction in English (1960).
• A Gay Bibliography (1975).
• The Necessity for Beauty: Robert W. Chambers & the Romantic Tradition (1974)

She also contributed to The Ladder and The Mattachine Review.

See also

• Darkover
• Darkover series
• Darkover Map: a large detail map of Darkover
• List of Darkover books

References

1. ^ [Serrano, Richard A. (October 3, 1991). "Rare Coins Expert Charged With Child Molestation". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
2. ^ [Rothon, Robert. (Feb 17, 2007) [1]] Retrieved April 23, 2009

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