she has edited the Sword and Sorceress anthologies, volumes I-XIII
with Paul E. Zimmer The Survivors1979
with FOD, ed. The Keeper's Price1980
with FOD, ed Sword of Chaos (DO/SS)1982
with FOD, ed. Free Amazons of Darkover (DO/SS) 1985
with FOD, ed. The Other Side of the Mirror (DO/SS)1987
with FOD, ed. Red Sun of Darkover (DO/SS)1987
with FOD, ed. Four Moons of Darkover (DO/SS)1988
with FOD, ed. Domains of Darkover (DO/SS)1990
Other Fiction
Witch Hill (gothic) 1972/1990
House Between Worlds 1981
The Inheritor 1984
The Firebrand
Marion Zimmer Bradley
On Writing SF&F
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. Men, Halflings, and Hero-Worship. Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1973. .
---. "Author's Note on Chronology." 157-8. In The Spell Sword: A Darkover
Novel. Daw, 1974.
---. The Necessisty for Beauty: Robert W. Chambers and the Romantic Tradition.
Baltimore: T-K Graphics, 1974.
---. [Letter in Response to Vonda MacIntyre's Review of Darkover Landfall in
W&C 2] The Witch and the Chameleon 3 (April 1, 1975): 28-30.
Focuses mainly on MacIntyre's charge that book is intentionally
anti-feminist. Says her intention was to posit human values against
technological ones. What McI calls "myths", MZB calls "facts". She refers
to Dorothy Sayers' essay "Are Women Human?" as statement of her veiws on
women and feminism.
---. [Another Letter in Response to Vonda MacIntyre's Review of Darkover
Landfall in W&C 2] Witch and the Chameleon 4 (Sept 1975): 19-25.
Discusses her attitudes towards women and feminism. Says she had only
met feminism in terms of separatist extremist ideas. Grew up on a farm,
believes women equal etc. But believes housekeeping a step up from mucking
out the barn. Experienced SF world as non-sexist. Housework just what she
had to do to stay alive. Now connected to a bi-sexual support group.
Admits has always been attracted to women, always written for lesbian
publications under own name. Dealt with male homosexuality in WW and HH.
Feels there is no taboo against it. Does admit that Norton suffers a lot
but says that's because she writes teen-age novels which are not as honest.
Also admits that in Shat Ch she weaseled out of Magda and Jaelle falling
in love. Explanation of theme of Sh Ch that we all have invisible chains.
More talk about hard facts of life.
---.(With Norman Spinrad and Alfred Bester) "Experiment Perilous: The Art and Science of Anguish in Science Fiction." In Experiment Perilous. Ed. Andrew Porter. New York: Algol Press, 1976.
---. "The Feminine Imperative." Viva 4.3 (1976): 45-6+.
Identifies Bloody Sun as first adult novel. Felt at home in
SF world because she knew herself different. Impt of King in Yellow by RW
Chambers. Discovery of fanzines. Divorce. Marriage to Walter, fellow
writer. Frankenstein as beginning of SF: warning about technnology. Story
of McCaffrey giving her LHD and that turning into WW. Talks about Door
Through Space and male hero there being her animus, and image of herself
as chained woman. Took her twenty years to recognize that self-poortrait
and send a group of women to free her-- SHC.
---. "An Evolution of Consciousness: Twenty-Five Years of Writing About Women
in Science Fiction." Science Fiction Review 6.3 (#22) (August 1977): 34-45.
---."A Note Froom the Author." 1. In Stormqueen!: A Darkover Novel. Daw, 1978.
---. "A Darkover Retrospective." 303-59. In The Planet Savers and The Sword
of Aldones: Two Novels of Darkover. Ace, 1980.
Autobiographical explanation of how early Darkover novels
were cobbeled together out of a mass of juvenelia. Never meant to do a series.
Not interested in systematic connections. A number of non-DO books also
come from same source. Door Through Space has Dry Town setting. Falcolns
of Narabella also some DO elements. Major influencers: Rider Haggard,
Talbot Mundy, R.W> Chambers, Sax Rohmer, A. Merrit, Kuttner, C.L. Moore,
Brackett, Hamilton. King and the Sword giant juvenelia. Red Sun from Jack
Vance's Dying Earth. Falcolns from this fantast bkgn but set against E.
Doc Smith SF background. first pb May 1957. Door also had Kadarin and
chained women. Then interest in multiple personalities led to Jason
Allison, in Planet Savers. Then went on to do yet another rewrite on Sword
of Aldones. Then Bloody Sun, first serious approach to sex. Next came
juvenile, Star of Danger. Meanwhile also writing gothics, romances,
astrology articles. Finally so sick of astrology that agreed to do another
Do. Inspired by Norton, tried a female hero, Winds of DO. Pretty bored
with most SF. Had idea of Tolkein's elves but ambiguously sexed (?maybe
from Ted Sturgeon stories). Then Anne McCaffrey gave her a copy of LHD.
Meanwhile readig books on ecology. Led to World Wreckers. Was meant to
provide final end to all DO books. Then Wollheim talked her into doing
prequal. Goes on to talk about Spell Sword, Hertiage, Shattered Chain,
Stormqueen.Some discussion of arguments with feminists.
---. "Introduction: A Word From the Creator of Darkover." 7-15. In The
Keeper's Price and Other Stories. Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends
of Darkover. New York:Daw, 1980.
---. "A Note from the Author." 1. In Two to Conquer: A Darkover Novel.Marion Zimmer Bradley. Daw, 1980.
.
---."Introduction." 7-8. In Sword of Chaos. Marion Zimmer Bradley and the
Friends of Darkover. Daw, 1982.
---. "Fandom: Its Value to the Professional" 69-84 In Inside Outer Space:
Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft. ed. Sharon Jarvis. New
York : Ungar, 1985.
---. "Introduction: About Amazons." 7-14. In Free Amazons of Darkover . Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover. Daw, 1985.
---. "Responsibilities and Temptations of Women Science Fiction Writers."
25-42. In Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of SF & F. Ed. Jane B.
Weedman. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
---. "Introduction." 9-12. In The Other Side of the Mirror and Other Darkover
Stories. Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover. Daw, 1987.
---. "Introduction." 9-12. In Four Moons of Darkover Marion Zimmer Bradley
and the Friends of Darkover. Daw, 1988.
---."One Woman's Experience in Science Fiction." 84-94. In Women of Vision:
Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction. Ed. Denise Du Pont. St.Martin's,
1988.
Criticism on Marion Zimmer Bradley
Arbur, Rosemarie. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1985.
---. Leigh Brackett, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey: A Primary and
Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.
Breen, Walter. The Darkover Concordance. Pennyfarthing Press. n.d.
Farwell, Marilyn R. "Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Towards a
Theory of Lesbian Narrative Space." 8?1-103. In Lesbian Texts and
Contexts: Radical Revisions. ed. Karla Jay, Joanne Glasgoqw, and Catherine
Stimpson. NYUP, 1990.
Fry, Carrol L. "The Goddess Ascending: Feminist Neo-Pagan Witchcraft in Marian
Zimmer Bradley's Novels." Journal of Popular Culture. 27:1 (1993 Summer), 67-80.
Fry, Carrol L. "'What God Doth the Wizard Pray To': Neo-Pagan Withcraft
and Fantay Fiction." Extrapolation 31.4 (Winter 1990): 333-46?.
Hornum, Barbara. "Wife/Mother, Sorceress/Keeper, Amazon/Renunciate:
Status Ambivalence and Conflicting Roles on the Planet Darkover." 153-64.
In Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of SF & F. Ed. Jane B. Weedman.
Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
Jones, Libby Falk. "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of
Feminist Utopias." 116-28. In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby
Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Godwin. .tenn 1990.
Kaler, Anne K. "Bradley and the Beguines: MZB's Debt to the Beguinal
Societies in Her Use of Sisterhood in Her Darkover Novels." 70-90. In
Heroines of Popular Culture. Ed. Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Popular
Press, 1987.
MacIntyre, Vonda. [Review of Darkover Landfall] The Witch and the
Chameleon 2 (Nov. 1974): 20-4.
Very negative on Darkover Landfall, which she sees as anti-feminist
tract. Takes novel apart in terms of scientifically impossible or improbable
ideas -- technical flaws. Butbiggest problem is that she thinks MZB
accepts as facts many of what McI. sees as male-perpetrated myths: that
women's labor isn't neccesary to sustain colony, that women's bodies would
be affected by greater gravity when men's wouldn't, that fem lib is a
result of over-population, that it is natural to want children, etc.
Russ, Joanna. "Recent Feminist Utopias." 71-5. In Future Females: A
Critical Anthology. Ed. Marleen S. Barr. Bowling Green OH: Popular Press,
1981.
---. [Letter About Darkover Landfall] Witch and the Chameleon 4 (Sept.
1975): 15-18.
Very sophisticated critique of Darkover landfall. Discussion of
colonization imperative and how MZB just buys into that, difference btwn
male and female physiology--why don't men have more heart attacks?
Discusses MZB's letter and talk of "necessity" using Depression as ZB.
Points out that Depression wasn't a historical necessity. DOLF sets up
women as loosers because of biology. Sets up postualate book, Lightunder
Arrival.
Shwartz, Susan. "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." 73-88. In
The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. Ed. Tom
Staicar. Ungar, 1982.
Spivack, Charlotte. Chapter on MZB in Merlin's Daughters. Greenwood, 1987:
149-62.
Volk Birke, Sabine. "The Cyclical Way of the Preistess: On the
Significance of Narratiive Structures in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists
of Avalon." Anglia: Zeitschrift Fur Englishe Philologie 100.3-4 (1990):
400-28.
Wise, S. The Darkover Dilemma: Problems of the Darkover Series. Baltimore:
T-K Graphics,1976.
Wood, Diane S. "Gender Roles in the Darkover Novels of Marion Zimmer
Bradley." 237-46. In Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions of SF & F. Ed.
Jane B. Weedman. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
Criticism on Her Fantasy and Other Fiction
Benko, Debra A. "Morgan le Fay and King Arthur in Malory's Works and Marion
Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon: Sibling Discord and the Fall of the
Round Table." 23-31 In The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature. ed.
JoAnna S. Mink. and Janet D. Ward. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.
Cowan, Robert (introd.), Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Paxson, Diana Donaldson,
and Evangeline Walton. "Why Write Fantasy? A Mythopoeic Conference
XIV Panel." Mythlore. 10:4 (38) (1984 Spring), 23-27.
Fuog, Karin E. C. "Imprisoned in the Phallic Oak: Marion Zimmer Bradley and
Merlin's Seductress." Quondam-et-Futurus. 1:1 (1991 Spring) 73-88.
Hopson, Kathryn M. Re-Visioning Morgan le Fay: A Unifying Metaphor for the
Image of Woman in Twentieth Century Literature. Dissertation Abstracts
International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1993 Oct, 54:4, 1365A DAI No.: DA9324601.
Degree granting institution: U of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993
Hughes, Linda K. "The Pleasure Lies in Power: The Status of the Lie in Malory
and Bradley." 99-112 In The Arthurian Yearbook, II. ed. Keith Busby. New
York : Garland, 1992.
Hughes, Melinda. "Dark Sisters and Light Sisters: Sister Doubling and the
Search for Sisterhood in The Mists of Avalon and The White Raven." Mythlore 19:1 (1993 Winter) 24-28.
Jones, Libby Falk. "Gilman, Bradley, Piercy, and the Evolving Rhetoric of
Feminist Utopias." 116-129 In Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. ed. Libby
Falk Jones. Knoxville : U of Tenn. P, 1990.
Kobler, Turner S. "King Arthur and Popular Culture." 107-14 In The
Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler.
ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas : Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.
Noble, James. "Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of
Avalon. " 288-96 In Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian
Legend. ed. Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley. Albany : State U of New
York P, 1994.
Ross, Meredith Jane. The Sublime to the Ridiculous: The Restructuring of
Arthurian Materials in Selected Modern Novels. Dissertation Abstracts
International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).1986 June, 46:12, 3717A
Russi, Roger. Dialogues with Epic Figures: Christa Wolf's 'Kassandra',
Monique Wittig's 'Les Guerilleres', and Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The
Firebrand.' Dissertation Abstracts International, Ann Arbor, MI (DAI).
1994 Feb, 54:8, 3021A DAI No.: DA9402177. Degree granting institution:
U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.
Schwartz, Susan M. "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ethic of Freedom." 73-88 In
The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write It. ed. Tom
Staicar. New York : Ungar, 1982.
Sheppeard, Sallye J. "Arthur and the Goddess: Cultural Crisis in The Mists
of Avalon." 91-104 In The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic: A Festschrift in
Honor of Lavon B. Fulwiler. ed. William E. Tanner. Dallas :Caxton's Mod. Arts, 1993.
Spivack, Charlotte. "Morgan Le Fay: Goddess or Witch?." 18-23 In Popular
Arthurian Traditions. ed. Sally K. Slocum. Bowling Green, OH : Popular, 1992.
Tobin, Lee Ann. "Why Change the Arthur Story? Marion Zimmer Bradley's The
Mists of Avalon ." Extrapolation. 34:2 (1993 Summer), 147-57.
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