The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine Vol. 2

by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor), Elisabeth Waters (Editor)

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This second volume of The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine serves up a smorgasbord of magic and adventure. Encompassing a range of fantasy from classical to modern settings, this collection begins with an introduction by Bradley herself, in addition to her introductions to each individual story.

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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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Canonical title
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine Vol. 2
Original title
The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fanasy Magazine Vol. 2
Original publication date
1995-11
Dedication
For my late father
Leslie R Zimmer Sr
whom I never appreciated when he was still alive.
~ MZB
First words
Miracle at Roodwell:

The city of Roodwell, swollen to many times its normal size, bustled with pilgrims rich and poor, credulous and cynical, noble-born and common; for on this day,the feast day of  high spring, a mir... (show all)acle that could occur but once in a human lifetime might come to pass.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Weather Witch:

And as soon as I finish cleaning up in the vegetable garden and weeding what's left of it, I'm going to take that book, starting with lesson one, and read it very, very carefully.
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This is volume II. It should not be combined with volume I.

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PS648 .F3 .B476Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)
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