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The Spell Sword

The Spell Sword

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

1974Darkover (Imaginary place)Life on other planetsFictionFiction in EnglishLarge type books
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Darkover (Imaginary place)Life on other planetsFictionFiction in EnglishLarge type booksFiction, science fiction, general
First published 1974

About the author

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley

3 June 1930 – 25 September 1999

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband and married numismatist Walter H. Breen. In 1965 she received her B.A. degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She then moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at …

Author

Marion Zimmer Bradley

First published

1974

Pages

158

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

16

Languages

English, French, German

Publisher

DAW

ISBN

9782266022637

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