The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Daw science fiction) [Paperback]

Marion Zimmer Bradley (Author)

Book Description

Series: Daw science fiction | Publication Date: April 5, 1988

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains four works by noted Science Fiction/Fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley. Bradley (1930-1999) was well known as the creator of the DARKOVER and MISTS OF AVALON series. Her works often have a feminist outlook.

This ebook Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

The Planet Savers
The Colors of Space
The Door Through Space
Year of the Big Thaw

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This hefty collection, part of a new series on women SF writers, includes 16 stories arranged chronologically from Bradley's first sale in 1954 through two tales from 1980. Several are from her major work, the Darkover series, and many consider such topics as sex and pregnancy in space. Missing is a rationale for the selection of these particular tales (surely even Bradley has written better stories) or any explanation of their context, whether in her career or in the genre as a whole. Bradley was one of the few women writing SF before the last decade and one wonders how that fact connects to the explicit and implicit sentiments in these stories that "women are all alike," that biology is destiny and that women shouldor already doconstitute a secret, witchlike society within the ruling patriarchal culture. December
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Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: DAW (April 5, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886772680
• ISBN-13: 978-0886772680
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,837,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in Albany, NY, on June 3, 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Mrs. Bradley received her B.A. in 1964 from Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, then did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1965-67.
She was a science fiction/fantasy fan from her middle teens. She had written as long as she could remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to VORTEX SCIENCE FICTION. She wrote everything from science fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels and for her Arthurian novel, THE MISTS OF AVALON.
In addition to her novels, Mrs. Bradley edited magazines, amateur and professional, including Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edited an annual anthology called SWORD AND SORCERESS, which is still published annually under the title MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S SWORD AND SORCERESS.
She died in Berkeley, California on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major heart attack.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deceptive Advertising, October 24, 2010

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Elisabeth Waters - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (Kindle Edition)

There is a book of MZB's short stories called THE BEST OF MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY (aka JAMIE AND OTHER STORIES). There is even a Kindle version of it The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley: Jamie and other stories, with added introductions and an additional story. This is NOT it. This is a few of her old public-domain works, which are available for free at Gutenberg.com and similar sites, with a duplicated title. It is erroneously linked to the books with the same title, and the two reviews currently attached to it are for the book and not for this item. Also, these don't even come close to being "the best" of her work; they were written very early in her career and her skill did increase over the next few decades.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Short Stories from Darkover to Lythande..., July 17, 2000

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"ferrazalves" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Paperback)

This book presents us to several short stories written by MZB with her incredible imagination, showing many different worlds, going from Earth to Darkover. You can read one story telling about the renunciants organization(Darkover), another one is about Lythande (a blue star magician with a secret). In my opinion, the best short story in this book, is the one about the Centauru's Children - where having a baby is the same to a death sentence to the mother... Well everyone can decide what is the most interesting of the 15 short stories of this book and vote in it.

5.0 out of 5 stars a good read, February 7, 2009

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John C. Gaydon "Linda Wolfsong" (Central Coast Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Daw science fiction) (Paperback)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. MZB says short stories are not her forte but these are terrific. In addition, they include lots of sci fi. I am used to reading her fantasy genre. I thought these were top quality.