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The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Daw science fiction)

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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.

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.

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.