Sword and Sorceress II

by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Editor)

Angharad (Short Story "Cold Blows The Wind"), Sword and Sorceress (2), Shanna Of Sharteyn (Short Story "Shadow Wood"), Frostflower (Short Stories — Short Story "A Night At Two Inns"), Tiger and Del (Collections and Selections — Short Story "The Lady and the Tiger")

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Phantastische Erzählungen von kämpferischen Frauen, die mit Schwert und Zauberstab gleichermassen geschickt umgehen können.

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Ich habe das Buch aus einem öffentlichen Bücherschrank mitgenommen, weil ich "Marion Zimmer Bradley" gelesen habe und die Avalon-Reihe als Kind ganz gerne mochte. Ich weiß ja nicht mal, ob mir ihre eigenen Werke heute noch gefallen würden, aber vieles, von dem, was sie hier als Herausgeberin herausgesucht hat, taugt mir nicht.
Denn: Die meisten dieser Geschichten tropfen leider vor Klischees, sind langatmig und wenig innovativ. Auch finde ich es fragwürdig, dass in dem Buch mehrmals Frauen als "Hündin" oder "undankbare Hündin" bezeichnet werden. Es spricht nicht für die Übersetzungsqualität.
Es gibt ein paar positive Ausnahmen: "Die rote Gilde", "Shimenenges Maske", "Der schwarze Turm" und "Die Erwählte" bieten zumindest show more einmalig eine ganz nette Unterhaltung. Die einzige Geschichte, von der ich mir vorstellen kann, sie nochmal zu lesen, ist "Die Wunde im Mond".

Wenn man wie ich kostenlos darüber stolpert, kann man es sicher mal lesen, aber Geld ausgeben, würde ich dafür nicht.
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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!
Eskapismus, aber humorvoll bis romantisch
Still a struggle, still not to my taste. One enjoyable to ten uninteresting. I read these books 30 years ago and liked them well enough to keep them and to continue buying them. I can only conclude that I have changed.

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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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Burns, Stephen (Contributor)
Cherryh, C. J. (Contributor)
Corwin, Richard (Contributor)
de Lint, Charles (Contributor)
Garrison, Russ (Contributor)
Karr, Phyllis Ann (Contributor)
Kramer-Rolls, Dana (Contributor)
Nazarian, Vera (Contributor)
Paxson, Diana L. (Contributor)
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Roberson, Jennifer (Contributor)
Saunders, Charles R. (Contributor)
Thompson, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Wheeler, Deborah (Contributor)

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Canonical title
Sword and Sorceress II
Original publication date
1985
People/Characters
Shanna, Royal Daughter of Sharteyn
Original language
English

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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813.087608Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fictionCollections
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PS3552 .R228 .S753Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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