Genie in a Bottle: In "A Dozen of Everything", a young woman is given a djinn in a bottle as a wedding present from an eccentric aunt.Generation Ship: Endless Universe is an example of "Generation Ship Planting FTL Gates".Fictional Color: In The Colors of Space, the substance necessary for interstellar stardrive shows up as this, though only under a light too bright for normal humans to stand.Atlantis: Web of Darkness and Web of Light are set in Atlantis.Amazon Brigade: The original Amazons in the Trojan War retelling The Firebrand.In Hunters of the Red Moon, the protagonist, who is sailing around the world alone, is kidnapped off his boat by the Mekhar (who trade in slaves, and were expecting more people to be on the boat).They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math. He and his alien companions were trapped on Mars for most of that year, since they had to wait for an enemy ship to be available to ambush for transport back to Earth. In The Brass Dragon, the protagonist initially can't remember the last year of his life, but unexpectedly finds that he now knows a lot more about mathematics than he used to.Other works by Marion Zimmer Bradley provide examples of: Black Trillium (in collaboration with Andre Norton and Julian May) and her solo sequel, Lady of the Trillium.Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley with their own trope pages include: Over a decade after her death, detailed allegations of sexual abuse regarding her own children and those of others, and her marriage to serial child molester Walter Breen, for whom she may have procured victims, have irreparably tainted her work, and that of some of the authors most tied to her. She was responsible for the thirty-four volume Sword And Sorceress anthology series, which helped launch the careers of dozens of authors, some of whom she mentored and who spoke of her fondly. Additionally, Bradley was an extremely influential figure in female-led speculative fiction. She also dove into gay and lesbian Pulp Fiction early in her career.
She was a contributor to the Thieves' World setting, with a sequence of stories featuring Lythande, Mage of the Blue Star. She was most famous for her Darkover series and the novel The Mists of Avalon. MZB, as she was known to fans, was a co-founder and the namer of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (J– September 25, 1999) was a prolific Speculative Fiction and Fantasy writer who was often regarded as having a feminist bent to her work.
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