Marion Zimmer Bradley

//Marion Zimmer Bradley
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  • Zadieyek of Gyre - a dangerous fighter, a star gladiator who is greatly feared - has been captured and sold as a slave. Suffering from amnesia, she remembers nothing of her life before the trip across the desert with the slavers - and, due to a head injury, remembers mercifully little of that. But she does know that she would rather fight in the arena than be a harlot for the men who do...Cover art by Peter Jones. N.B. This is NOT a typical MZB - legend tells that she wrote it as a result of a bet with her son and in response to the Gor novels.
  • Book IX of Darkover. Earthmen on Darkover stayed in the shelter of their specially-constructed spaceport - beyond lay wild, uncharted, inhospitable territory. But for space traveller Andrew Carr the desolate planet held an attraction he could not resist.  Darkover drew him and haunted him.  It was this irresistible force that lured his craft to destruction among the unexplored mountains, leaving him alone among the magical people of the ancient planet. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
  • Endless voyage...that's an old saying in the Explorers. But for every Explorer there is, somewhere, a planet he will not leave. For some, the cause is love. For others, the desire to give up the strange roving life of the star wanderers who live outside of planet-time. Even for the ones who love the metal ships that are their only home there is still a planet waiting, a planet that will hold them forever - in the final clasp of death. But until then, life is adventure and wonders undreamed of by mere planet dwellers, an Endless Universe of the unknown.  Cover art by Lombardo.  Later re-written and published as Endless Universe.
  • Book III of Avalon series. With her mother's dying breath, Eilan, fifth child of the High Priestess of Avalon, takes life. The baby is taken to her father, King Coel, and raised in the Roman way as Helena, but in A.D. 259 the ten year old girl is returned to the mystical place of her birth. There she begins her training as a priestess, in the face of her Aunt Ganeda's determination that she shall fail. Despite her aunt's  hostility, the child becomes a gifted Priestess and on the night of her initiation she has a vision of the Roman, Constantine, the man she will love for the rest of her life. Her vision also reveals that he is the one who will father a child who will free Britain from Roman tyranny.  But to be with him she must betray her sisters and turn her back on Avalon, to build a new life in the dangerous city of the enemy. Cover art by Paula Lewis.

  • The timeless story of Camelot, Arthur, Guinevere, Launcelot and the Knights is told through the eyes of the women of Arthur's life from their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies. His mother, Igraine; Viviane, High Priestess of Avalon and Lady of the Lake who helps Arthur to the throne; Guinevere, his wife, who marries Arthur yet who is in love with Launcelot; and Morgaine, his half-sister, separated from Arthur while both were still children, only to meet again at Arthur's king-making without recognising each other.  Morgaine, small, dark, intense, who has the Sight and loves Launcelot passionately.   The Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as the Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain and the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory...Cover art by Braldt Bralds.
  • Barry Cowan woke up screaming in a hospital room with a nightmare where his memory should have been.  There was also a curious brass figurine in his pocket that made the nightmare seem likely to be true.  Yet for all the emptiness there was a familiarity about the stranger who appeared, claiming to be his father - a horrific familiarity, somehow linked to the dreams of another world that invaded his sleep.  Where had he been?  What had shocked his mind so deeply that it refused to remember? Cover art by Ken Barr.
  • Book I of The Fall Of Atlantis. Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of the Atlantean prince Micon, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire are coveted by the sorcerers of the dark who would harness his gifts for their own evil ends. Soon, out of a tender, earthly passion, would rise forces that might decide the final victory.  Soon, Domaris would bear Micon a son - but Deoris, her sister, would be enthralled by the forces of darkness.

  • Kassandra, Princess of Troy, High Priestess of Apollo, Amazon warrior -  is cursed when she refuses the advances of Apollo - ever will she tell the truth and never will she be believed.  This is a grand re-telling of the tragedy of the Trojan War and its characters from the point of view of Kassandra. They are all here - Priam, King of Troy; Hecuba, the Queen, also an Amazon; shallow Paris and the fateful, beautiful Helen; valiant Hector, the mad Achilles, Odysseus the peace-maker. An epic from the author of The Mists of Avalon. Cover art by Wilson McLean.
  • Book VI of Darkover. Alastair and Conn, the infant twins of Hammerfell, were separated and cast into the night in the fatal blow of a clan feud which raised Hammerfell against Storn and soaked the land in blood for countless generations. Now the time has come for the banner of Hammerfell to rise once more against the might of Storn. Brother will reunited with brother in a test of buried loyalty that will decide the fate of a dynasty. Cover art by Peter Jones.