Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series.

While she is noted for her feminist perspective in her writing, her popularity has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations against her of child sexual abuse and rape by two of her children, Mark and Moira Greyland, and others.

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Literary career

When Bradley was a kid, she loved reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, C.L. Moore and Leigh Brackett were particularly keen when they wrote about "the glint of mysterious suns on planets that never were and never will be." Their first book and a substantial portion of her subsequent fiction display their clout. She began The Forest House, her retelling of Norma, at the age of 17, and she wrote it before she died.

With the short story "Outpost," Bradley made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction competition in Amazing Stories in 1949. In Amazing Stories Vol. 1, "Outpost" was included. No. 23, No. It appeared in the fanzine Spacewarp Vol. 12, December 1949 issue; it had previously appeared in the fanzine Spacewarp Vol. No. 4, no. In December 1948, there were three children in the world. She first commercial publication was a short story "Women Only," which appeared in the second (and final) issue of Vortex Science Fiction in 1953. Falcons of Narabedla, her first published novel-length piece, was first published in Other Worlds' May 1957 issue.

Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman began writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, among other things outside of the speculative fiction genre, including gay and lesbian pulp fiction books, in 1962. Her books were considered pornographic when they were released, and they were rather tame by today's standards.

The planet of Darkover, which became the basis of a famous series by Bradley and others, was introduced by her 1958 book The Planet Savers. The Darkover period is a science fiction fictional world with science fiction and fantasy overtones: The Darkover story was a lost human civilization in which psi powers flourished to an incredible degree and look like magic, while industrial technology has regressed to a more or less medieval setting. Bradley wrote many Darkover books by herself, but her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death. Bradley played a key role in science fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting collaboration with professional writers and publishers and publishing several important contributions to the subculture. In her teens, she wrote letters to pulp magazines of the day, such as the above-mentioned Amazing Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories. She began in the late 1940s and continued in the 1950s and 1960s, including Astra's Tower, Day*Star, and Anything Box. With her first husband Robert Bradley, MezRAB, and Allerlei with her second husband Walter Breen, she also co-edited fanzines, including Ugly Bird with Redd Boggs, MEZRAB. Bradley appeared in several other fanzines, including The Gorgon and The Nekromantikon. She wrote two short fanfic stories about Arwen in the 1970s, releasing them in chapbook form as part of J. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. One of the few stories "The Jewel of Arwen" (originally published in the fanzine I Palantir #2, August 1961), but was removed from later reprints. Throughout her career, she continued to contribute to various science fiction and fantasy fanzines and journals.

Bradley became a co-founder of the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1966 and has been credited with inventing the Society's name.

Bradley has been supporting Darkover fan fiction for many years. She encouraged submissions from unpublished authors and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies. This came as a result of a tense discussion with a fan over an unpublished Darkover book by Bradley's that had resemblance to one of the fan's tales. As a result, the book was unpublished, and Bradley ordered that all Darkover fan fiction be banned from being published.

Bradley was the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology collection, which encouraged fantasy stories starring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she primarily urged young female writers, she was not opposed to including stories from male authors in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was one of many writers whose first appeared in anthologies. Bradley also had a large family of writers at her Berkeley, California home. Bradley was coding the final Sword and Sorceress book until the week of her death.

The Mists of Avalon, a retelling of the Camelot legend from Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, may be her most well-known single book. It grew into a series of books, and after Bradley's death, it continues to appear.

In 2000, Bradley was given the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.

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