Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  • Bibliography:
    146 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    December 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Avalon

1 - The Mists of Avalon (Dec-1982)
2 - The Forest House (Apr-1994)
3 - Lady of Avalon (Jun-1997)
Priestess of Avalon (Apr-2001)

Colin MacLaren

1 - Ghostlight (Aug-1995)
2 - Gravelight (Sep-1997)
3 - Witchlight (Sep-1996)
4 - Heartlight (Sep-1998)

Darkover

Sword of Aldones (1962)
Bloody Sun (1964)
Star of Danger (1965)
Winds of Darkover (1970)
The World Wreckers (1971)
Darkover Landfall (Dec-1972)
The Spell Sword (Sep-1974)
Heritage of Hastur (Aug-1975)
The Shattered Chain (Apr-1976)
The Forbidden Tower (Sep-1977)
Stormqueen (Jun-1978)
The Keeper's Price (Feb-1980)
Two to Conquer (Jun-1980)
Sharra's Exile (Oct-1981)
Sword of Chaos (Apr-1982)
Thendara House (Sep-1983)
The Darkover Saga (Mar-1984)
City of Sorcery (Oct-1984)
Free Amazons of Darkover (Dec-1985)
The Other Side of the Mirror (Feb-1987)
Red Sun of Darkover (Nov-1987)
The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
Domains of Darkover (Mar-1990)
Renunciates of Darkover (Mar-1991)
Leroni of Darkover (Nov-1991)
Four Moons of Darkover (Jul-1993)
Towers of Darkover (Jul-1993)
Darkover (Oct-1993)
Snows of Darkover (Apr-1994)
The Shadow Matrix (1997)
Traitor's Sun (1998)

Darkover: The Ages of Chaos

Hawkmistress! (Sep-1982)

The Web Saga

1 - Web of Light (Feb-1983)
2 - Web of Darkness (Aug-1984)

Multi-Author Series List

Darkover

Sword of Aldones (1962)
Bloody Sun (1964)
Star of Danger (1965)
Winds of Darkover (1970)
The World Wreckers (1971)
Darkover Landfall (Dec-1972)
The Spell Sword (Sep-1974)
Heritage of Hastur (Aug-1975)
The Shattered Chain (Apr-1976)
The Forbidden Tower (Sep-1977)
Stormqueen (Jun-1978)
The Door Through Space (Aug-1979)
The Keeper's Price (Feb-1980)
Two to Conquer (Jun-1980)
Sharra's Exile (Oct-1981)
Sword of Chaos (Apr-1982)
Hawkmistress! (Sep-1982)
Thendara House (Sep-1983)
The Darkover Saga (Mar-1984)
City of Sorcery (Oct-1984)
Free Amazons of Darkover (Dec-1985)
The Other Side of the Mirror (Feb-1987)
Red Sun of Darkover (Nov-1987)
House Rules (Nov-1988)
Man of Impulse (Nov-1988)
The Heirs of Hammerfell (1989)
Domains of Darkover (Mar-1990)
Renunciates of Darkover (Mar-1991)
Leroni of Darkover (Nov-1991)
Four Moons of Darkover (Jul-1993)
Ten Minutes or So (Jul-1993)
Towers of Darkover (Jul-1993)
Darkover (Oct-1993)
Snows of Darkover (Apr-1994)
The Word of a Hastur (Apr-1994)
Exile's Song (1996)
The Shadow Matrix (1997)
Traitor's Sun (1998)

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress

1 - Sword and Sorceress (May-1984)
2 - Sword and Sorceress II (May-1985)
3 - Sword and Sorceress III (Jul-1986)
4 - Sword and Sorceress IV (Jul-1987)
5 - Sword and Sorceress V (Aug-1988)
6 - Sword and Sorceress VI (Jun-1990)
7 - Sword and Sorceress VII (Dec-1990)
8 - Sword and Sorceress VIII (Sep-1991)
9 - Sword and Sorceress IX (Apr-1992)
10 - Sword and Sorceress X (Jun-1993)
11 - Sword and Sorceress XI (Aug-1994)
12 - Sword and Sorceress XII (Jul-1995)
13 - Sword and Sorceress XIII (Jul-1996)
14 - Sword and Sorceress XIV (Mar-1997)
15 - Sword and Sorceress XV (Jan-1998)
16 - Sword and Sorceress XVI (Jun-1999)
17 - Sword and Sorceress XVII (May-2000)
18 - Sword and Sorceress XVIII (May-2001)
19 - Sword and Sorceress XIX (Jan-2002)
20 - Sword and Sorceress XX (Aug-2003)
21 - Sword And Sorceress XXI (Nov-2004)

World of the Three Moons

4 - Lady of the Trillium (1995)

Zodiac Gothic

Drums of Darkness (Jun-1976)

Book List in Order: 146 titles

  • The Planet Savers

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    In 'The Planet Savers' Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced the world to her amazing Darkover series. A disease threatens all of Darkover and the only man that can save Darkover has a multiple personality disorder. He is two distinct men, but two men who...

  • Sword of Aldones

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Lew Alton had always walked between two worlds -- his mother was Terran, his father Darkovan -- and he had never been accepted by either. Yet Alton alone could fully understand both worlds, and the mystic forces gathering to engulf them. That was wh...

  • Bloody Sun

    Darkover
    Darkover

    OUTCAST ON TWO WORLDS Jeff Kerwin had spent his early years in the Spacemen's Orphanage in the Terran Trade City on Darkover. Yet he'd never felt he'd belonged there for he was haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran city, a world h...

  • Falcons of Narabedla

    Bodiless, blind, I drifted and swayed and swung in the sound of the voices. The humming, like a million high-tension wires, sang around me and I felt myself cradled in the pull of a great magnet that held me suspended surely on nothingness and drew m...

  • Star of Danger

    Darkover
    Darkover

    A TERRAN-DARKOVAN ALLIANCE Although the natives of Darkover are the descendants of a long-lost Terran colony ship, they distrust the Terran spacers who have recently taken up residence on their planet. Many feel that these strangers from space hav...

  • Souvenir of Monique

    She left behind a legacy of fear. WIFE BY PROXY Count Etienne de Montigny made an unusual proposition to orphaned Laura Monteith: she would pose as Monique, his wife, who had disappeared and undoubtedly had been killed. Struck by her incredib...

  • The Brass Dragon

    Barry Cowan woke up screaming in a hospital room with a nightmare where his memory should have been, and a curious brass figurine in his pocket that made the nightmare seem all too likely to be true. Yet for all the emptiness there was a familiarity ...

  • Winds of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Turning under a blood-red sun, Darkover had always been a mystery to the Terrans. Its most puzzling riddles lay in the incredibly high mountains known as the Hellers. These jagged and almost impassable peaks sheltered races and enigmas that had becom...

  • The World Wreckers

    Darkover
    Darkover

    PLANETARY INVESTMENTS UNLIMITED --that was its official name. But unofficially it was known as Worldwreckers, Inc. For a fee, its agents would infiltrate any world unwilling to give up its independence, and do enough damage so the natives would be f...



  • Darkover Landfall

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Here is the tale of the arrival of humans on the mysterious, uncharted world of Darkover, the story of what happened when a Terran colony ship crashlanded on Darkover, and colonists and crew were divided between those who sought to repair the starshi...

  • Hunters of the Red Moon

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The hunters were fair by their standards... but their standards were utterly inhuman. They kidnapped intelligent beings from many far-off planets as prey for their hunt. They gave them their choice of the best weapons available, allowed them plenty o...

  • The Spell Sword

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Although Darkover was a world inhabited by humans as well as semi-humans, it was primarily forbidden ground to the Terran traders. Most of the planet's wild terrain was unexplored... and many of its peoples seclusive and secretive. But for Andrew ...

  • Heritage of Hastur

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE HERITAGE OF HASTUR, longest and most intricate of the Darkover books, is a brilliant epic of the pivotal event in the strange love-hate relationship between the Terran worlds and the semi-alien offspring of forgotten peoples. This is the novel...

  • The Shattered Chain

    Darkover
    Darkover

    The major theme of THE SHATTEREDCHAIN concerns the role of women. While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattel -- indeed in some barbaric p...

  • Drums of Darkness

    Zodiac Gothic

    Dark Stars of Mystery Mardee Haskell, a spirited Leo summoned to her great-aunt's luxurious estate in Haiti, was eager to be involved in the exciting epic being filmed at Maison Dominique. In this romantic island setting, Mardee became entang...

  • Experiment Perilous: Three Essays on Science Fiction

  • The Forbidden Tower

    Darkover
    Darkover

    This is the novel of four who defied the powers of the matrix guardians--fanatics who protected those powers so that the planet of the ruddy sun might never fall beneath the influence of materialistic Terrans. The four who found themselves fused i...

  • Stormqueen

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE MATRIC WARS The great epic of the world beneath the Bloody Sun known as Darkover did not begin with the coming of the Terrans. It began far earlier, during the dark days of the civilization that came to be known as the Ages of Chaos. For in...

  • Legend of Lady Bruna

    All with the right to rule the Alton Domain were dead, save Kennard's unborn son. Lady Bruna swore to serve as Regent, to protect her brother's widow and child, and command the Guards in Thendara until the boy was old enough to take up the duties him...



  • The Survivors

    Asked to investigate a Closed World, Dane, Rianne, and Aratak begin their mission but are interrupted when the uneasy peace between coexisting sentient races is threatened by ghosts and dragons. Dane, Rianna and the monster Aratak…they were the ...

  • The Catch Trap

    A magnificent, colorful novel of the circus world of the 1940s and 1950s, rich in detail, bursting with power and emotion.
    Mario Santelli, a member of the famous flying Santelli family, is a great trapeze artist. Tommy Zane is his protege.
    As n...

  • The Door Through Space

    Darkover

    FANGS OF THE WOLF WORLDAt one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he ...

  • The Ruins of Isis

    DOMINATION OR DESTINY The women of Isis held fast to a near-extinct culture of matriarchal rule. Deep within their sacred ruins dwelled the Builders, an ancient spirit -- a spirit that spoke only to women. Cherished and worshiped, their soft, warmin...

  • Seven from the Stars

    Reidel had been caring for the animals on the colony ship before its destruction. He hadn't expected to find himself the leader of the survivors. While there were only seven of them, but they were a varied group, both in psi powers and in temperment....

  • The House Between the Worlds

    WORLD WALKER OR'TWEENMAN Fenton was only a 'tweenman, without body or shadow; his body lay back in the laboratory where Dr. Garnock was experimenting with a new drug. Yet Fenton was in the fairy world of the Alfar, helplessly watching the Faerie Q...

  • The Hawkmaster's Son

  • The Keeper's Price

    Darkover
    Darkover

    The lore of the planet of the Bloody Sun, Darkover, with its human and semi-human peoples, its science of mental powers, its loves and hates, its feuds and favors--all have grown into one of the greater classics of the imagination, comparable only to...

  • Two to Conquer

    Darkover
    Darkover

    What forces would operate if there were two objects that were absolutely identical in form and substance? This problem has occupied both workers in magic and the scientists of physics and psychology. It is the pivot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel o...

  • Survey Ship

    Ace Books, 1981. First mass market paperback printing. Cover art by Paul Alexander, several interior illustrations by Fabian. Six young people, very different from one another, are selected for a long journey to find an earthlike planet....



  • Swimming Book

    Jeff Kerwin had spent his early years in the Spacemen's Orphanage on Darkover. Yet he'd never felt that he belonged there, for he was haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran city. After being shipped back to Earth, Jeff finally returns ...

  • Sharra's Exile

    Darkover
    Darkover

    The most dangerous matrix on all Darkover was the legendary Sharra. Embodied in the image of a chained woman, wreathed in flames, it was the last remaining weapon of the Ages of Chaos that had almost destroyed civilization on the planet of the Bloody...

  • The Lesson of the Inn

    Hilary Castamir had been at Arilinn Tower for half her life. Now she was being sent home, a failure, not strong enough to be a Keeper. But leaving the Tower did not change the way she had been taught to think, and the journey home was a real shock.Th...

  • Sword of Chaos

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun, is one of the great triumphs of the imagination. Its peoples, its sciences, human and non-human, have been brought to life and its legendry has the ring of authentic folklore comparable only to the depth and co...

  • Endless Universe

  • Hawkmistress!

    Darkover: The Ages of Chaos
    Darkover

    She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She h...

  • The Mists of Avalon

    Avalon - 1

    The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne.“A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewI...

  • Web of Light

    The Web Saga - 1

    BLACK AND WHITE MAGIC WERE AT WAR .. . Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of Micon, the Atlantean prince, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire, are coveted by the sorcerers of the...

  • Greyhaven: An Anthology of Fantasy

    DAW Books paperback original (1983). Includes the stories: "They Come and Go" by Joel Hagen; "Cat Tale" by Vicki Ann Heydron; "Bedtime Story" by Anodea Judith; "Wrong Number" by James Ian Elliot; "The Bardic Revel" essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Fr...

  • The Colors of Space

    It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...



  • Thendara House

    Darkover
    Darkover

    To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...

  • The Darkover Saga

    Darkover
    Darkover

  • The Inheritor

    Leslie Barnes, a very unwilling psychic, loves her new house in San Francisco. Until she learns that something wants it. Something that is after her very soul......

  • Sword and Sorceress

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 1

    The author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the bestselling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world. Here ...

  • Web of Darkness

    The Web Saga - 2

    THE DARK MAGIC TOOK ALL SHE COULD GIVE The young priestess Deoris abandoned all she had once loved to follow the sorceror Riveda. He was a healer, esteemed by the Temple, but he practiced the. dark arts in secret. And when his forbidden rites requ...

  • City of Sorcery

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Haunted by mysterious images of dark, hooded figures and the cawing of strange birds, and drawn by the memory of two lost comrades, Magdalen Lorne, chief Terran operative on Darkover must pursue her quest not only to the frozen ends of the physical w...

  • Oathbreaker

    Dyan Ardais has already taken the monitor's oath when he is summoned home from Arilinn because his father has just killed his stepmother. The oath binds him not to use his poweres to force his will on another. But his father is insane, obviously dang...

  • Bird of Prey

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Blood Will Tell

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Centaurus Changeling

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley



  • The Climbing Wave

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • The Day of the Butterflies

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Death Between the Stars

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

    They asked me about it, of course, before I boarded the starship. All through the Western sector of the Galaxy, few rules are stricter than the one dividing human from nonhuman, and the little Captain of the Vesta-he was Terran, too, and proud in the...

  • Elbow Room

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • The Engine

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Exiles of Tomorrow

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Hero's Moon

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • The Secret of the Blue Star

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • To Keep the Oath

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Treason of the Blood

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

    He came to her handsome and youthful in appearance. He had been alive far longer than she could have imagine. In that time he had faced many dangers, but was she the danger that would undo him and send him to eternal damnation?...

  • The Wild One

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

    This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories ho...

  • The Wind People

    in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fa...

  • Night's Daughter

    For nearly two hundred years, audiences the world over have thrilled to Mozart's The Magic Flute. Their love for the music has been equalled by their fascination with the strange and wonderful magic of the story of Papageno the bird-man, the darkly m...

  • Sword and Sorceress II

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 2

    SWORD AND SORCERESS II What better guide could there be through the realms of witchery and wonder, of combat and danger, of romance and magic than the hand and mind of Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the bestsellers CITY OF SORCERY, THENDARA HOUS...

  • Warrior Woman

    They called her Zadieyek of Gyre, which meant "dreaded woman." She was a fighter. dangerous to confront. Dreaded. The distant city of Gyre trained such women, so they thought she came from there and called her Zadieyek of Gyre. If she had a real ...

  • Free Amazons of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    FROM THENDARA TO THE HELLERS AND BEYOND... Return with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover to the planet of the Bloody Sun, the world of Darkover, where powerful families gifted with rare mental powers of loran rule the land, where T...

  • Knives

    Marna was being badly abused at home. But she was only thirteen - not old enough to take the oath. Would the Renunciates believe and help her when her own mother would not? This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology FREE AMAZONS O...

  • Sword and Sorceress III

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 3

  • Lythande

    LYTHANDE WAS PLEDGED BY SWORD AND SPELL TO FOREVER FIGHT THE FORCES OF CHAOS... A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovere...

  • The Other Side of the Mirror

    Darkover
    Darkover

    WHEN THE COMYN RULES... Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun, at the time when Terra has rediscovered this long-lost colony ruled by families who wield their mind powers of laran for good or ill. Now, with Comyn power declining and the Terran inf...

  • Bluebeard's Daughter

    Sybil Ellis was a seventeen-year-old orphan with very few options: If she didn't want to be a governess or a companion-and she didn't, she had to marry. So she married Dr. Philip Maynard, who was old enough to be her grandfather and treated her like...

  • Sword and Sorceress IV

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 4

    The exploits of warrior women and the spellbinding enchantments of the great mistresses of the magical arts are chronicled in a collection of fantasy tales by Diana Paxson, Richard Corwin, Jennifer Roberson and others...

  • Firebrand

    VIVIDLY BLENDING THE MYTHS OF GODS WITH THE PASSIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN, MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY BRINGS US A SWEEPING, FASCINATING STORY . . . KASSANDRA: Trojan priestess of Apollo, torn between her beloved Sun Lord and the ancient worship of the Eart...

  • The Ballad of Hastur and Cassilda

    Before Darkover was Darkover, I wrote this to explain some of the Gods and heroes. I have referred in the novels to 'singing' the Ballad, but I think of it as declaimed rhythmically, to a background of minor arpeggios on a harp. -- Marion Zimmer Brad...

  • Red Sun of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    RITES OF POWER Darkover, world of legend, where ancient power has awakened humans to their own hidden talents, where the changed humans of this planet of the Bloody Sun must face the challenge of recontact with Terra, of the native chieri, and of ...

  • The Shadow

    After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited Laran gift...

  • Sword and Sorceress V

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 5

    A collection of fantasy fables about sword- and magic-wielding women features the works of Jennifer Roberson, Mercedes Lackley, Charles de Lint, Diana Paxson, and others who weave tales of courage, wizardry, and evil...

  • House Rules

    in Four Moons of Darkover
    Darkover

  • Man of Impulse

    in Four Moons of Darkover
    Darkover

  • The Heirs of Hammerfell

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Now, after a five-year absence, Marion offers us the chance to return to Darkover at the time of The Hundred Kingdoms, an age of war and strife when Darkover was divided by border conflict into numerous small, antagonistic kingdoms. The Heirs of H...

  • Spells of Wonder

  • Domains of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    FROM THE FOUNDING OF NESKAYA TOWER... to the origins of the Free Amazons... to a Terran innocently enmeshed in a Darkovan conspiracy of betrayal and murder, here are exciting new excursions into the six ages of Darkover. Join Marion Zimmer Bradl...

  • Sword and Sorceress VI

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 6

  • Witch Hill

    This little-known classic by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful treat for readers feeling the loss of this marvelous author. Part of Bradley's beloved "Light" series, Witch Hill is a sensuous story of witchcraft, demonic possession, and tr...

  • Sword and Sorceress VII

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 7

    IN THE MAGIC REALMS a quickly woven spell may prove the key to power or to a power weaver's downfall, while a skilled blade wielder may survive dangers beyond even a sorceress's wildest imaginings. So join today's top magic makers and talented ne...

  • Renunciates of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    FROM GUILD HOUSE TO LORD'S COURT the Free Amazons ply their trade, serving as mercenaries wherever there is need, banding together in comradeship, setting themselves apart from the everyday rules of Darkovan society, earning their freedom with blade...

  • Amazon Excerpt

    in Renunciates of Darkover

  • Sword and Sorceress VIII

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 8

    SPELLS CAST AND SWORDS DRAWN As the forces of evil reach out to conquer new realms, claiming the lives and treasures of unprotected innocents, there are always a valiant few ready to oppose these masters of darkness and destruction. Bold women war...

  • Leroni of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE POWERS OF LARAN UNLEASHED Return once again to Darkover, the magnificent world of the Bloody Sun, with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the many writers devoted to expanding the Darkover universe as, in these all-new stories, they reveal legendry and...

  • Jamie and Other Stories

    This is a new edition of the definitive collection of stories by one of science fiction's most acclaimed writers. It contains, in addition to the 16 superbly crafted and thought provoking stories of the first edition, "Jamie," a brilliant mainstream ...

  • Sword and Sorceress IX

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 9

  • Dark Satanic

    The Curses It had started with a letter -- crude, block letters promising death. But neither Jamie nor Barbara Melford paid heed. They didn’t believe in curses…until Jock Cannon died, suddenly and mysteriously. He had been threatened and he ha...

  • Sword and Sorceress X

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 10

  • Four Moons of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    WHEN FOUR MOONS RISE -- the mystery and powers of the legendary world of Darkover are at their height. When the light of their conjunction bathes the world of the Bloody Sun, anything can happen, and Darkovan, Terran, and even the native chieri must...

  • Towers of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE POWERS OF THE MIND Return to the magnificent world of the Bloody Sun in this exciting new, all-original anthology that explores one of the most fascinating facets of Darkover society -- The Towers. In these citadels, those gifted with laran-mind...

  • Ten Minutes or So

    in Towers of Darkover
    Darkover

  • Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    A COLLECTION OF DARKOVER STORIES WRITTEN BY MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY HERSELF! Return to Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun, with this collection written solely by the originator of this exotic world, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and including two entirely ...

  • Hilary's Homecoming

    Hilary had been sent home from Arilinn Tower because she wasn't strong enough for the strenuous life of a Keeper. What she needed now was time for her body to heal from the demands that had been placed on it. Unfortunately, her mother had other plans...

  • Hilary's Wedding

    Yllana Castamir had been trying to find a 'suitable' husband for her daughter Hilary ever since she came home from Arilinn six years ago, but all her attempts had failed. Perhaps Hilary would do better to chose for herself. This story was originally...

  • The Forest House

    Avalon - 2

    The New York Times bestselling science fiction and fantasy author of the Avalon series introduces the prequel to the beloved and enduring classic The Mists of Avalon in this mesmerizing epic of one woman’s legendary role at a turning point in histo...

  • Snows of Darkover

    Darkover
    Darkover

    Return to Darkover, planet of the Bloody Sun ...Where an impassable wall of ice separates the domains of man from the frigid, snowy wastes beyond the High Hellers. ...Where, holed up in stone castles or cloistered in isolated towers, those gifted w...

  • The Word of a Hastur

    in Snows of Darkover
    Darkover

    Noted authors--such as Mercedes Lackey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Paxson, and others--return to Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun where a wall of ice separates man from the snowy wasteland. Original....

  • Sword and Sorceress XI

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 11

    A new collection of more than twenty original fantasy tales about strong, heroic women--warriors and wizards alike--features the contributions of Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana Paxson, Jo Clayton, Deborah Wheeler, and other notable writers. Original....

  • Castle Terror

    ISLE OF HEARTBREAK Susan Moore had a lesson to learn: Flee from a hopeless romance, and you may find yourself a pawn in an even more dangerous and tragic game of love. The castle on Sanctuary Island, to which Susan's mysterious nursing assignme...

  • Lady of the Trillium

    World of the Three Moons - 4

    Torn between love and duty, a reluctant young acolyte will be called on to magically save her imperiled world in this enthralling chapter of the Saga of the Trillium Of the three royal siblings who made up the Petals of the Living Trillium, only Lady...

  • Sword and Sorceress XII

    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 12

    A collection of stories highlights women of power, including a sorceress, a seeress, and a swordswoman, and features the writings of such authors as Mercedes Lackey, Jennifer Roberson, and Diana Paxson...

  • Ghostlight

    Colin MacLaren - 1

    What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night,...

  • The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine - Volume 2

    This 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 settings, this collection begins with an introduction by Bradley herse...

  • Exile's Song

    Darkover

    THE HERITAGE OF ALTON She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeti...

  • Sword and Sorceress XIII

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    WITH SWORD AND SHIELD, SPELL AND CURSE.... Even at the risk of losing her one true love, a young mage must put aside all she holds dear to achieve a higher goal.... A benevolent shapechanger is all that stands between her village and the bloody...

  • Witchlight

    Colin MacLaren - 3

    Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of the most beloved and praised fantasy storytellers of our time, has once again written a compelling and powerful novel with larger-than-life characters.Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tiss...

  • To Drive the Cold Winter Away

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....

  • The Shadow Matrix

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE ACES OF CHAOS Margaret Alton, rightful heir to the Alton Domain, has been making a desperate effort to control her newfound laran powers and to understand the obscure, potent, and frightening nature of her unique shadow matrix. However Margare...

  • Sword and Sorceress XIV

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    WOMEN OF COURAGE AND POWER ...roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and magic. They are sword-wielding defenders or sorcerous spell-casters-roles too often considered the exclusive province of men. In 26 original stories of bold and talented ...

  • Lady of Avalon

    Avalon - 3

    Journey to a time before King Arthur in this prequel to The Mists of Avalon -- a spellbinding story of three remarkable women who alter the fortunes of Roman Britain as they fight to reclaim the magic and traditions of a once glorious past.   Ca...

  • Gravelight

    Colin MacLaren - 2

    From bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon comes Marion Zimmer Bradley's Gravelight.Wycherly Musgrave is the perfect drunken, ne'er-do-well youngest brother. Beneath his lighthearted manner, however, lies . . . something dark. Now, afraid that in...

  • Genuine Old Master

  • The Gratitude of Kings

    Packaged for gift giving, a fantasy yarn by the author of The Mists of Avalon follows a centuries-old female wizard who must disguise herself as a male to survive the intrigue and black magic of the court....

  • Sword and Sorceress XV

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    WOMEN OF MAGIC AND MIGHT... An apprentice sorceress must pass through the realm of the dead to gain the power to save the life of her mentor.... A young fugitive must unravel the mystery of a deadly curse or her companion won't live long enough...

  • Traitor's Sun

    Darkover
    Darkover

    THE POWER OF LARAN It has been fifteen years since Marguerida Alton returned to Darkover, discovered the terrifying powers of her special laran, and fell in love with Mikhail Lanart-Hastur, heir designate to the regency of Darkover. With the prope...

  • The Once and Future Merlin

  • Heartlight

    Colin MacLaren - 4

    Heartlight is the story of Bradley's greatest champion of good, Colin MacLaren, as he carries the banner of Light through the second half of the twentieth century. Ghostbuster, exorcist, student and teacher of the mystic arts, Colin meets Claire Moff...

  • Sword and Sorceress XVI

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    FOR HONOR AND VALOR When a young woman gravely injures a powerful creature out of legend, can she find the courage to return to her victim and face redemption or death? Can an itinerant witch restore the power of a dying god? Will a woman's ...

  • Sword and Sorceress XVII

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  • Priestess of Avalon

    Avalon

    When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewo...

  • Sword and Sorceress XVIII

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    A collection of magical "sword and sorcery" stories introduces a heroic cast of female characters, from a young actress who discovers the art of playing a hero in real life to a grieving sorceress who must release her mentor's spirit into the afterli...

  • Sword and Sorceress XIX

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    WOMEN OF MIGHT AND MAGIC roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and sorcery. They are sword-wielding defenders or magical spell-casters -- roles too often considered the exclusive province of men. Handpicked by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, he...

  • The Ages of Chaos

    The Ages of Chaos includes Stormqueen! and Hawkmistress!, two acclaimed novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley and part of the expansive, genre-bending Darkover series.   Set during the lawless Ages of Chaos, when the ruling families of the Seven Domai...

  • Sword and Sorceress XX

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    WITH PEN AND PAPER Marion Zimmer Bradley led so many of us on the brilliant, fascinating, and endlessly inventive roads of her imagination. But though Marion was primarily known as a beloved best-selling author, she had a secret passion to edit. H...

  • The Fall of Atlantis

    A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantas...

  • Sword And Sorceress XXI

    in Sword and Sorceress XXI
    Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress - 21

    Featuring contributions by Diana L. Paxson, Rosemary Edghill, and Leslie Fish, among others, a powerful collection of original stories introduces a heroic cast of brave, strong-willed, and fiercely independant female characters, including a girl who ...

  • To Save A World

    An omnibus volume of two of Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic, long-unavailable Darkover novels, including the first Darkover novel ever written! To Save a World includes The World Wreckers and the Planet Savers, plus the short...

  • The Dark Intruder and Other Stories

  • The Pledged Word

  • Bonds of Sisterhood

    Camilla n'ha Kyria and Rafaella n'ha Doria were Rununciates, oath-sisters, and good friends. But they didn't start out that way... This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology MZB's DARKOVER, Oct 1993....

  • Bride Price

    When non-telepaths marry, the two become one flesh. With telepaths, like Rohana Aillard and Gabriel Ardais, the joining may be deeper still. But if husband and wife become one mind, what happens to the survivor when one of them dies?This story was or...

  • Everything But Freedom

    Rohana Ardais had rank, wealth, a noble husband, sons and a daughter, servants, a large estate and the power to run it as she saw fit. Most women would have thought her life was perfect - after all, what more could she want?This novella was originall...

  • Firetrap

    Things that happen while you're out of your body don't have any effect on your physical body - or do they? This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology DOMAINS OF DARKOVER, March 1990....

  • Somebody Else's Magic

    Although it's Lythande's magic that's for hire, not her blade--at least, not the right-hand blade--you don't live long in the lands between Tschardain and Northwander if you don't have some skill with an edged weapon, and she has plenty. A swordswoma...

  • The Wandering Lute

    Prince Tashgan of Tschardain hired the mercenary-magician Lythande to break a spell that had been cast on him. As he had no ready coin with which to pay, Lythande agreed to take his lute in exchange, knowing that it was enchanted... but unaware of ju...

  • Endless Voyage

    Gildoran 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 was his Ship, and the only people he could count on were her crew. For ...

  • Year of the Big Thaw

    In this warm and fanciful story of a Connecticut farmer, Marion Zimmer Bradley has caught some of the glory that is man's love for man -- no matter who he is nor whence he's from. By heck, you'll like little Matt.

    ...

  • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Worlds

    Over the course of several decades, Marion Zimmer Bradley developed a group she called "MZB's Writers." Often the initial story they sold to her was their first professional sale. She nurtured, encouraged -- and nagged -- them to produce more. Many o...

  • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover

    ...an incredible blending of fantasy and science fiction. Eventually the Terrans rediscover their long-lost -- and now alien -- colony: Darkover. Things are different there. While adolescent male homosexuality is generally tolerated on Darkover, men ...

  • Men, Halflings & Hero Worship

  • The Marion Zimmer Bradley Short Story Collection

    The Marion Zimmer Bradley Short Story Collection contains some of Marion Zimmer Bradley's most entertaining short stories. THE DOOR THROUGH SPACE, THE COLORS OF SPACE, THE PLANET SAVERS, YEAR Of THE BIG THAW, A DOZEN OF EVERYTHING, SEVEN FROM THE STA...

  • The Dark Intruder

    Xanadu. Not the Xanadu of Coleridge's poem, but-to the half-forgotten space drifter who discovered the place thirty years ago-a reasonable facsimile. It was a cloistered nun of a city, hidden behind a wide skirt of the most impassable mountains on Ma...

Award-Winning Books by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Mists of Avalon
1984 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel


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Marion Zimmer Bradley has published 146 books.

Marion Zimmer Bradley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Dark Intruder, was published in December 2015.

The first book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sword of Aldones, was published in January 1962.

Yes. Marion Zimmer Bradley has 5 series.
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