Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley (June 3rd 1930 - September 25th 1999) was a prolific auteure of Fantasy and Science-fiction, its work being often located at the limit of the two kinds. Its novels are impressed of a more or less moderate Féminisme. She also encouraged, through the Anthologie Sword and sorceress which she directed, the emergence of new authors such as Mercedes Lackey. Encouraging more particularly of young female authors, it includes also men in its anthologies.

Biography

Marion Zimmer Bradley is born with Albany (State of New York) in 1930 and starts to write very young person, as of 1949. It sells its first news in 1952 with the Vortex magazine. In 1949, it marries Robert Alden Bradley, which it divorces in 1964. Less than one month after this event, it Marie with a famous, Walter Breen, known numismatist for its inclinations paedophiles (Walter Breen is death in prison in 1993). The couple separates in 1979, but officially only in 1990 divorces.

After having suffered from health issues during several years, Marion Zimmer Bradley is extinct the September 25th 1999 of the continuations of a Myocardial infarction.

Literary career

Marion Zimmer Bradley had a great influence on a whole generation of authors and readers as well in the field of the Fantasy as of the Science-fiction. Its novels are often built around heroin portraits non conformist have regard of the standards of the company in which they live.

One of its most known creations is the cycle of Ténébreuse ( Darkover ). This cycle is attached to the Fantasy while including however many typical elements of the Science-fiction. The cycle accepted a very positive reception which led to the creation of the association of the Amis of Dark ( The friends off Darkover ) in the Années 1970. This group published starting from 1975 a newsletter ( The Darkover Newsletter ) which was transformed into 1977 in a Fanzine entitled Starstone . Marion Zimmer Bradley encouraged the publication in this fanzine news being held on Ténébreuse written by fans, generally beginners on the matter. On the initiative of the founder of the editions DAW, Donald Wollheim, it gathered the best news in a Anthologie entitled The Keeper' S Price , appeared in 1980. The success of this first volume justified the realization of 11 other anthologies on the same topic. In 1992, Marion Zimmer Bradley however decided to formally prohibit the writing of works of fiction in the universe of Ténébreuse , following a dissension with the author of a new news. Since this resumption in Dark hand of the universe of , this one had an animated life. Marion Zimmer Bradley initially wrote in 1994, in the foreword of Snows off Darkover , the last anthology on Ténébreuse , that Mercedes Lackey was the heiress of Ténébreuse , officializing the situation created by the publication in 1993 of Redécouverte , work written with two hands. The three following novels were however Co-writings with Adrienne Martine-Barnes. The situation in 2005 seems clarified, since the last three novels being held on Ténébreuse were written by Deborah J. Ross according to the outlines and the notes of Marion Zimmer Bradley. A new trilogy is in court of writing by Deborah J. Ross which thus seems the official heiress of the universe of Ténébreuse .

Marion Zimmer Bradley is also very known for its rewriting of the myth of Camelot from the point of view of the fairy Morgane and the queen Guenièvre.

Marion Zimmer Bradley used several pen names such Morgan Ives , Miriam Gardner , John Dexter and Lee Chapman , to write novels having for central figures of the homosexual or the Lesbienne S and which although appearing relatively pain-killers of our of days were regarded as pornography in the Années 1960.

In 1966 Marion Zimmer Bradley founds the Society for Creative Anachronism .

Since its death, the rights of the complete work of Marion Zimmer Bradley are managed by a foundation created for this purpose, the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust .

Works

Dark

A lost land vessel is crushed on a planet with the very hard and hostile climate where some mysterious creatures live. The crew settles and founds what will become, several millenia later, a feudal company directed by Comyn with the russet-red hair, together of families prétenduement resulting from a common ancestor and having inherited telepathic capacities developed by the matrices, of the local crystals. The people of Dark, thus named by the first colonists, forgot his land origins… But the past catches up with them in the form of a land galactic power which redécouvre the planet and must cohabit with the inhabitants.

By chronological order of the told history:

- Super-Fiction N°37, 1979

the Cycle of Avalon

The cycle of Avalon was born with the novel The Mists off Avalon , a rewriting of the myth arthurien from the point of view of the women who play an important role in the legend and more particularly of that of the fairy Morgane. The success of work founder encouraged Marion Zimmer Bradley to pack the universe of Avalon in other novels, series taken again with died of the author by his collaboratice Diana L. Paxson. The Mists off Avalon was also adapted in 2001 for the Télévision in the form of a mini-series for American chain TNT.

Unfortunately for the French-speaking reader, The Mists off Avalon was adapted in French, rather than translated. The 2 volumes of the adaptation count less than 850 pages to the format pocket, against more than 1000 in original version, in a cast iron of smaller body. Large parts of the text of origin disappeared from the French version. It is noted for example that the last part of chapter 2 of the english language version does not appear at the end of the chapter corresponding of the French edition (chapter 1 of the Dames of the lake ). This missing piece is spread out over a page and brings many complements on the political aspect of the intrigue. This diagram is repeated regularly, whereas certain passages are completely rewritten in French, rather than translated.

By chronological order of the events:

The first two parts of the Secret of Avalon proceed before the events of the Priestess of Avalon , whereas the third part their is posterior.

Trillium

Unit

Lost capacities

Novels of light

Various novels

Collections of news

News

External bonds

The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust

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