Sword and Sorceress IV
by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor)
Angharad (Short Story "The Weeping Oak"), Cynthia Daughter of Euelpides (Short Story "The Noonday Witch"), Sword and Sorceress (4), Shanna Of Sharteyn (Short Story "Blood Dancer"), Valdemar : Vows and Honor (Collections and Selections — short story "A Tale of Heroes"), Tiger and Del (Collections and Selections — Short Story "Rite of Passage"), Valdemar: Chronological Order (Short Stories — 1270 AF, Short Story "A Tale Of Heroes"), Valdemar: Publication Order (Short Stories — Short Story "A Tale Of Heroes")
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I’m not even sure where I first picked up one of MZB’s Sword and Sorceress books. All I know is I was hooked with the first one. It took me several years to collect all 21, but I loved each one. Some years are better than other, and there are a few stories that I have never forgotten, but over all, you can’t go wrong reading this entire set!
Getting better. Sequel stories to stories I liked in previous books help make this book a better read.
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dark fantasy short story / "But the children died gently, in their sleep." in Name that Book (May 2013)
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) Marion Zimmer Bradley was the bestselling author of "The Mists of Avalon", "Lady of Avalon", "The Forest House", & "The Firebrand", as well as the popular Darkover series of science fiction novels. She died in 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Angharad
3 works (Short Story "The Weeping Oak")
Cynthia Daughter of Euelpides
14 works (Short Story "The Noonday Witch")
Sword and Sorceress
34 works (4)
Shanna Of Sharteyn
10 works (Short Story "Blood Dancer")
Valdemar : Vows and Honor
5 works (Collections and Selections — short story "A Tale of Heroes")
Tiger and Del
8 works (Collections and Selections — Short Story "Rite of Passage")
Valdemar: Chronological Order
42 works (Short Stories — 1270 AF, Short Story "A Tale Of Heroes")
Valdemar: Publication Order
42 works (Short Stories — Short Story "A Tale Of Heroes")
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- Canonical title
- Sword and Sorceress IV
- Original title
- Sword and Sorceress IV
- Original publication date
- 1987-07
- People/Characters
- Shanna, Royal Daughter of Sharteyn (in "Blood Dancer")
- First words
- A Tale of Heroes:
"Miles out of our way, and still not a sign of anything out of the ordinary," Tarma grumbled, her harsh voice carrying easily above the clopping of their horses' hooves. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Bloodstones:
"... Which one is the Sixth Stone?"
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087608 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Collections
- LCC
- PS648 .F3 .S96 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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- 72,885
- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 3
