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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Noted for the feminist perspective in her writing, her reputation has been posthumously marred by her daughter Moira Greyland's accusations of child sexual abuse, and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children. Bradley began writing at the age of 17 and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University. She co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1966. She also served as the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series. She was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement in 2000. In 2014, her daughter Moira accused her of sexual abuse, and it was revealed that Bradley was aware of her second husband, Walter H. Breen's, child molestation activities. In response to the allegations, the publisher of Bradley's digital backlist began donating all income from her e-books to the charity Save the Children. Several science fiction authors have since publicly condemned Bradley. Biography Born Marion Eleanor Zimmer on June 3, 1930, she lived on a farm in Albany, New York, and began writing at the age of 17. She was married to Robert Alden Bradley from October 26, 1949, until their divorce on May 19, 1964. They had a son, David Robert Bradley (1950–2008). During the 1950s she was introduced to lesbian advocacy organization the Daughters of Bilitis.After her divorce, Bradley married numismatist Walter H. Breen on June 3, 1964. They had a daughter, Moira Greyland, who is a professional harpist and singer, and a son, Mark Greyland. Moira's son, RJ Stern, is a college football player who was featured on season 5 of Last Chance U on Netflix.In 1965, Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Afterward, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley between 1965 and 1967. In 1966, with her brother Paul Edwin Zimmer, she helped found and name the Society for Creative Anachronism and was involved in developing several local groups, some in New York after her move to Staten Island.Bradley and Breen separated in 1979 but remained married, and continued a business relationship and lived on the same street for over a decade. They officially divorced on May 9, 1990, the year Breen was arrested on child molestation charges after a 13-year-old boy reported that Breen had been molesting him for four years. She had edited Breen's book Greek Love (published pseudonymously), which was dedicated to her (named simply as "his wife"), and in 1965 had contributed an article, "Feminine Equivalents of Greek Love in Modern Literature", to Breen's journal The International Journal of Greek Love. She allegedly had knowledge of Breen's sexual interests and was said to have accepted his sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy. Religion While she was attending the College for Teachers (now University at Albany, SUNY) in Albany, Bradley became involved in Western esoteric tradition. She later completed a Rosicrucian correspondence course.In the late 1950s or early 1960s, Bradley and Walter H. Breen founded the Aquarian Order of the Restoration based on the work of Dion Fortune. By 1961 she was formally initiating others, including Ramfis S. Firethorn.: 313 Bradley was active in Darkmoon Circle, which was founded in 1978 by several women who were members of her Aquarian Order of the Restoration. Bradley renovated her garage to provide a meeting room for Darkmoon Circle as well as for other local Pagan groups. In 1981 Bradley, Diana L. Paxson, and Elisabeth Waters incorporated the Center for Non-Traditional Religion.In the 1990s Bradley said she would return to Christianity, telling an interviewer: "I just go regularly to the Episcopalian church ... That pagan thing ... I feel that I've gotten past it. I would like people to explore the possibilities." Death After suffering declining health for years, Bradley died at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a heart attack. Her ashes were later scattered at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England.: 28–29 Child sex abuse allegations In 2014, Bradley's daughter, Moira Greyland, accused her of sexual abuse from the age of 3 to 12. In an email to The Guardian, Greyland said that she had not spoken out before because "I thought that my mother's fans would be angry with me for saying anything against someone who had championed women's rights and made so many of them feel differently about themselves and their lives. I didn't want to hurt anyone she had helped, so I just kept my mouth shut".Greyland also reported that she was not the only victim and that she was one of the people who reported her father, Walter H. Breen, for child molestation, for which he received multiple convictions. According to Greyland, Bradley was aware of her husband's behavior although she chose not to report him.In December 2017 Bradley's daughter published a detailed biography of her mother, including her pedophilia and sexual abuse, in a book entitled The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon.Additionally, according to Greyland, Bradley assisted Breen (her husband at the time) in accessing and abusing multiple unrelated young boys, knowing he was a pedophile who was engaging in sexual contact with children as young as eight. Greyland states that Bradley and her live-in female partner (whom Greyland refers to as her step-mother) both admitted to knowledge of the abuse and purposefully avoided investigating, questioning, or notifying any authorities. Bradley was also accused of attempting to adopt a child whom Breen was interested in sexually.In response to these allegations, on July 2, 2014, Victor Gollancz Ltd, the publisher of Bradley's digital backlist, began donating all income from the sales of Bradley's e-books to the charity Save the Children. Janni Lee Simner donated advances and royalties from her two Darkover short stories and, at the request of her husband, Larry Hammer, payment for his sale to Bradley's magazine, to the American anti-sexual assault organization Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.A number of science fiction authors have publicly condemned Bradley. Among the first was John Scalzi, who within a day of the allegations being made public, described the allegations as "horrific". Hugo Award winner Jim C. Hines wrote that Bradley's positive effect on her readers and associates "makes the revelations about Marion Zimmer Bradley protecting a known child rapist and molesting her own daughter and others even more tragic." G Willow Wilson, who along with Bradley is a fellow World Fantasy Award winne.... Discover the Marion Zimmer Bradley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Marion Zimmer Bradley books.
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The Heirs of Hammerfell
Marion Zimmer BradleyNobody alive knew how the feud between Storn and Hammefell had begun, but that didn't stop the fighting. When Storn's men burned Hammerfell's castle, his infant twin sons were sepa...
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Masques of Darkover
Deborah J. RossOrbiting a distant red sun, the planet Darkover was settled long ago by human colonists and then cut off from the rest of civilization. Over millennia of isolation, it gave rise to...
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The Ages of Chaos
Marion Zimmer BradleyThe Ages of Chaos includes Stormqueen! and Hawkmistress!, two acclaimed novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley and part of the expansive, genrebending Darkover series. Set during t...
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Sword and Sorceress 29
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Courage and Sorcery...For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The roster...
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Lace and Blade
Deborah J. RossIn the spirit of classic period swashbucklers, Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and D'Artagnan, brimming with romantic courtly intrigue and dangerous liaisons, with cloak and dagger a...
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The House Between the Worlds
Marion Zimmer BradleyCameron Fenton participates in a parapsychology study, using an experimental drug. Instead of increasing his ESP, it causes him to leave his his body and enter other worlds. But ar...
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Rediscovery
Marion Zimmer Bradley & Mercedes LackeyLeonie Hastur has a high degree of laran, the telepathic power of the Comyn caste, and wants to be Keeper of Arilinn Tower, which will give her as much power as her twin brother Lo...
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Citadels of Darkover
Deborah J. RossStrongholds of rock . . . fortresses of the spirit . . . a planet set apart . . . A castle high in snowcovered mountains beneath a ruddy sun, a place at once romantic and bleak, al...
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The Princess, the Dragon, and the Frog Prince
Elisabeth Waters, Mercedes Lackey & Raul S. ReyesThis is a collection of connected stories: The Birthday Gift, by Elisabeth Waters Dragon in Distress, by Mercedes Lackey & Elisabeth Waters The Dragon's Horde...
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Snows of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis is the twelfth anthology of short stories set on Darkover, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and first published in 1994.This anthology contains stories by Marion Zimmer Bradle...
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Hunters of the Red Moon
Marion Zimmer Bradley & Paul Edwin ZimmerFor the Hunters, the Hunt was a religion. The Sacred Prey, sentient beings collected from all over the galaxy, were literally given a fighting chancethey were allowed to choose wea...
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Domains of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThe seventh anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories adds to the legends of the Planet of the Bloody Sun. This volume contains stories by Deborah J. Ross, Mercedes Lackey, Lynne A...
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Lady of Avalon
Marion Zimmer BradleyJourney to a time before King Arthur in this prequel to The Mists of Avalona spellbinding story of three remarkable women who alter the fortunes of Roman Britain as they fight to r...
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The Other Side of the Mirror
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis fourth anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1987, contains the following: Bride Price, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Everything But Freedom, a n...
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The Sword of Aldones
Marion Zimmer BradleyAfter Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and get...
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The Survivors
Marion Zimmer Bradley & Paul Edwin ZimmerAfter surviving the Hunt on the Red Moon, Dane should have been happy to return to civilization, and, for a while, he was. But then he got bored. So when their protosaurian friend ...
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Sword and Sorceress 28
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Steel and Spells...For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The roster of...
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Sword and Sorceress 34
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Alchemy and Swordplay... For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The ros...
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Sword and Sorceress 32
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Sorcery and Courage... For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The roste...
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Leroni of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis ninth anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1991, covers events from the founding of the Comyn Council to centurieslater encounters of Terrans with chi...
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The Catch Trap
Marion Zimmer BradleyTommy Zane hates lions, a major obstacle in a family of lion tamers. But Tommy's dreamsand talentfly higher, up in the rigging with the trapeze. When rising star Mario Santelli off...
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Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine - Volume 2
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis second volume of The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine serves up a smorgasbord of magic and adventure. Encompassing a range of fantasy from classical to modern ...
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Free Amazons of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis third anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1985, concentrates on the Free Amazons and contains the following stories: Knives, by Marion Zimmer Bradley...
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Renunciates of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThe eighth Darkover anthology returns to stories about the Free Amazons, also called Renunciates.Here are twentytwo brand new tales about the Renunciates, including Marion Zimmer B...
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Sword and Sorceress 33
Elisabeth Waters & Deborah J. RossWomen of Wisdom and Power... For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The ros...
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The Laran Gambit
Marion Zimmer BradleyTerran child psychologist Bryn Haslund has her hands full, treating the traumatized young victims of the interplanetary Star Alliance. She's tried to stay out of politics, leaving ...
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Marion Zimmer Bradley Super Pack
Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer Bradley is best known for her science fantasy series set in the Darkover universe and as the author of 'The Mists of Avalon.' A World Fantasy Award winner, her fictio...
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Music of Darkover
Elisabeth WatersThe first new Darkover anthology in almost two decades, this volume focuses on the music of Darkover: stories with musical elements; the songs in the books; and the filk songs insp...
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Survey Ship
Marion Zimmer BradleyHow do you make a spaceman? You start the same way that you start to make a chess master, a ballet dancer, a trapeze performer, or any other difficult and complex task demanding hi...
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Towers of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThe tenth anthology of alloriginal stories returns readers to Darkover to explore some of its most fascinating places: the Towers, where those gifted with laran join together to wo...
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Four Moons of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis sixth anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1988, contains the following stories: House Rules, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; A Man of Impulse, by Marion Zi...
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Sword and Sorceress 31
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Magic and Wisdom...For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The roster of...
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Sword of Chaos
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis second anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1982, contains the following stories: Lesson of the Inn, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; A Sword Calle...
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Endless Voyage
Marion Zimmer BradleyGildoran was an Explorer. Despite the number of planets found and tied into the Transmitter network that enabled everyone else to travel instantly from planet to planet, his home w...
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Crossroads of Darkover
Deborah J. RossDarkover’s position on the galactic arm renders it strategically important, a crossroads in space. It’s also a place where cultures meet and clash, where strangers encounter ...
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Red Sun of Darkover
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis fifth anthology of alloriginal Darkover stories, first published in 1987, contains the following stories: Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda, by Marion Zimmer Bradley;...
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Realms of Darkover
Deborah J. RossMarion Zimmer Bradley's beloved world of Darkover encompasses many realms, from glaciershrouded mountains to arid wastelands, from ancient kingdoms to spacefaring empires. Now this...
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Warrior Woman
Marion Zimmer BradleyThis is not a typical Marion Zimmer Bradley novel. This book is the result of a bet between Marion and Don Wollheim, her editor for the Darkover novels at DAW Books. In addition, i...
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Sword and Sorceress 30
Elisabeth WatersWomen of Enchantment and Valor...For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, bestselling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The rost...
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Stars of Darkover
Deborah J. Ross & Elisabeth WatersReturn to the world of the Bloody Sun Over fifty years ago, master storyteller Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced readers to a compelling new world. Darkover, a distant planet c...
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Jewels of Darkover
Deborah J. RossFor more than six decades, readers have fallen in love with Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover, a "Lost Colony" world of telepaths, swordsmen, intelligent alien races, and longburied...
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Marion Zimmer Bradley Super Pack
Marion Zimmer BradleyMarion Zimmer Bradley is best known for her science fantasy series set in the Darkover universe and as the author of 'The Mists of Avalon.' A World Fantasy Award winner, her fictio...