![]() I swear: If it wasn't for Gwenhwyfar, I would have loved this book. Literatura de puro e bom entretenimento.Īh, já me esquecia! No final embebedam-se todos e o que acontece nessa noite fica no segredo da Deusa. Bradley, que fez desta lenda uma bonita história com todos os ingredientes necessários para nos seduzir. Num ambiente mágico, o maior truque pertence a Marion Z. Não vamos aprofundar as restantes personagens que com estas já temos o suficiente para uma boa história. Sempre foi a minha favorita nas histórias de Avalon, mesmo quando a pintam como má. ![]() Morgaine sendo uma Sacerdotisa de Avalon tem aval da Deusa para contrariar os bons costumes. ão sabe o que fazer da vida.Īrtur faz de conta que é cegueta e tenta ser um bom Rei, um bom marido e um bom amigo. Gwenhwfar é mimada, ciumenta, beata e irritante. Morgaine esconde o filho de todos e ama Lancelot que não a amando, não se importa de ir tirando umas lasquinhas. Lancelot ama Gwenhwfar mas como é o melhor amigo de Artur, vive celibatário e contenta-se em olhar para a rainha e fazer-lhe umas festinhas inocentes sempre que pode.Īrtur ama Gwenhwfar, mas tem um filho com a meia-irmã Morgaine. Gwenhwfar ama Lancelot mas casa com Artur. Her reputation has been posthumously marred by multiple accusations of child sexual abuse by her daughter Moira Greyland, and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children. A retelling of the Camelot legend from the point of view of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar, it grew into a series of books like the Darkover series, the later novels are written with or by other authors and have continued to appear after Bradley's death. Probably her most famous single novel is The Mists of Avalon. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death in September of 1999. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including male authors in her anthologies. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.īradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by herself, but in her later years collaborated with other authors for publication her literary collaborators have continued the series since her death.īradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture.įor many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. ![]() ![]() Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. 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 that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.Įarly in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. 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.īradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds.
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