Sword and Sorceress III

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Marion Zimmer Bradley
DAW Books, 1986 - Fiction - 285 pages
"By the power of blade and wand! Spells cast ... demons raised ... warriors called to arms ... dragons unchained ... gods challenged ... it all happens in the imaginative, adventure filled realms of Sword and Sorceress. And, in this thrid volume of stories specially selected by the Wise Woman of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling author of City of Sorcery, Thendara House, and The Mists of Avalon, you'll meet exciting new talents and be captivated by such veterans of trials by battle and enchantment as Diana Paxson, Jennifer Roberson, and Charles Saunders. So don your armour and grab your amulets, and join Marion Zimmer Bradley on this wonderful excursion to far off lands and times where creatures out of myth come dangerously alive and courageous women--warriors, sorceresses, priestesses, or assassins--face each new peril with all their skill at weapons and magic."--Back cover

About the author (1986)

Marion Zimmer Bradley is a science-fiction and fantasy writer, novelist, and editor. She was born in Albany, New York on June 3, 1930. Bradley attended the New York State College for Teachers from 1946 to 1948. She earned a B.A. from Hardin Simmons University in 1964. Bradley did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley from 1965 to 1967. Bradley sold her first story to Fantastic Amazing Stories as part of an amateur fiction contest. She sold her first professional story to Vortex Science Fiction in 1952. Her novels include The Sword of Aldones and The Planet Savers. Both novels were set on Darkover, the setting for more than 20 subsequent Bradley novels. Bradley also wrote The Mists of Avalon, a reworking of the King Arthur legend with more emphasis on the female characters. She used the same approach with The Firebrand, which was based on The Iliad. In addition to writing more than 85 books, Bradley was the editor of an annual anthology for DAW Books, as well as the editor of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. Bradley died in 1999.

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