Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as
The Mists of Avalon and the
Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.
Bradley's first published novel-length work was
Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of
Other Worlds. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds th…
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