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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was a prolific SpeculativeFiction and {{Fantasy}} writer who was often regarded as having a feminist bent to her work. MZB, as she was known to fans, was a co-founder and the namer of the UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism.
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We can't not talk about this. We can't just stay silent on these horrific actions, folks. I hope this was simply a case of a page that hadn't been updated yet.
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* LiteralGenie: In "A Dozen of Everything", a young woman is given a djinn in a bottle as a wedding present from an eccentric aunt. She wishes for trousseau, but finding the old-fashioned djinn unfamiliar with the term, she carelessly instructs him to give her "a dozen of everything" and to put it all in her room. This goes about as well as one might expect.
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* AmazonBrigage: The original Amazons in the Trojan War retelling ''The Firebrand''.
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* AmazonBrigage: AmazonBrigade: The original Amazons in the Trojan War retelling ''The Firebrand''.
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* AlienAbduction:
** 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. [[spoiler: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. They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math.]]
** 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).
* AmazonBrigage: The original Amazons in the Trojan War retelling ''The Firebrand''.
* {{Atlantis}}: ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web ofLight''.Light'' are set in Atlantis.
** 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. [[spoiler: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. They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math.]]
** 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).
* AmazonBrigage: The original Amazons in the Trojan War retelling ''The Firebrand''.
* {{Atlantis}}: ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web of
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* FictionalColor: 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.
* GenerationShip: ''Endless Universe'' is an example of "Generation Ship Planting FTL Gates".
* GenerationShip: ''Endless Universe'' is an example of "Generation Ship Planting FTL Gates".
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* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Done inadvertently in ''The Door Through Space''; the hero and his antagonist both fit the same general description, and when the hero realizes that the bad guys have mistaken him for the other guy he proceeds to take advantage as best he can.
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* MadeASlave: In ''Warrior Woman'', the amnesiac protagonist is sold as a pleasure slave to the gladiators. She becomes a gladiator herself when she halves a newbie's skull with his own sword during inspection.
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* NonhumanLoverReveal: ''The Wild One'' -- Boy meets [[spoiler:werelynx]].
* OperatorIncompatibility: In ''The Colors of Space'', humans need to be in stasis to use the FTL drive. [[spoiler:Or so the aliens who invented the drive claimed.]]
* OperatorIncompatibility: In ''The Colors of Space'', humans need to be in stasis to use the FTL drive. [[spoiler:Or so the aliens who invented the drive claimed.]]
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* SufferTheSlings: In ''Warrior Woman'', a mighty warrior with a sword and shield faces off against a small man with a sling and dagger in the gladiatorial arena. The protagonist thinks it's a mismatch. She's right, although she misses her guess on who's going to win; the mighty warrior drops with a hole in his forehead.
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* GenieInABottle: In "A Dozen of Everything", a young woman is given a djinn in a bottle as a wedding present from an eccentric aunt.
* LiteralGenie: In "A Dozen of Everything", a young woman is given a djinn in a bottle as a wedding present from an eccentric aunt. She wishes for trousseau, but finding the old-fashioned djinn unfamiliar with the term, she carelessly instructs him to give her "a dozen of everything" and to put it all in her room. This goes about as well as one might expect.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: "Elbow Room" is something of a twist: [[spoiler:the woman chosen for duty on an isolated station is actually all alone; the other people she thinks are there are her other personalities. She briefly flips out when she realizes this, but then goes back to the way things were]].
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: ''Hunters of the Red Moon''.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: The hero of ''Hunters of the Red Moon'' is abducted by aliens and ends up being chosen for a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame-type reality show. He is given the choice of a wide range of hand-held weapons from across the galaxy and is happy to spot a Japanese katana which he uses to be one of the rare survivors of the game.
* KnifeThrowingAct: ''Knives ofDesire''Desire'' (written under the pen name Morgan Ives) is about a woman who becomes involved in a lesbian relationship after joining a circus to be the target girl for a female knife thrower.
* MySecretPregnancy: In ''Centaurus Changeling'', Beth hides her pregnancy from her husband. The only problem is that, as she soon discovers, the air on the planet they are living on is highly poisonous to pregnant women... [[spoiler:And it is revealed in the end that she was mind-controlled by a local to get pregnant without him knowing.]]
* LiteralGenie: In "A Dozen of Everything", a young woman is given a djinn in a bottle as a wedding present from an eccentric aunt. She wishes for trousseau, but finding the old-fashioned djinn unfamiliar with the term, she carelessly instructs him to give her "a dozen of everything" and to put it all in her room. This goes about as well as one might expect.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: "Elbow Room" is something of a twist: [[spoiler:the woman chosen for duty on an isolated station is actually all alone; the other people she thinks are there are her other personalities. She briefly flips out when she realizes this, but then goes back to the way things were]].
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: ''Hunters of the Red Moon''.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: The hero of ''Hunters of the Red Moon'' is abducted by aliens and ends up being chosen for a HuntingTheMostDangerousGame-type reality show. He is given the choice of a wide range of hand-held weapons from across the galaxy and is happy to spot a Japanese katana which he uses to be one of the rare survivors of the game.
* KnifeThrowingAct: ''Knives of
* MySecretPregnancy: In ''Centaurus Changeling'', Beth hides her pregnancy from her husband. The only problem is that, as she soon discovers, the air on the planet they are living on is highly poisonous to pregnant women... [[spoiler:And it is revealed in the end that she was mind-controlled by a local to get pregnant without him knowing.]]
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* QueerRomance: ''The Catch Trap'' revolves around two trapeze artists, both male, who fall in love.
* TheReptilians: In ''The Brass Dragon'', the Dikri are a race of cold, ruthless dragon-like aliens who can shape-shift into human form. They act as renegades, interfering on primitive worlds in violation of interstellar rules.
* SdrawkcabName: ''Falcons of Narabedla'' -- "Narabedla" is the reverse of Aldebaran, the name of the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.
* SettledForGay: A female friend of Tommy's suggests this in ''The Catch Trap'' because she wants to concentrate on her career but would like to have a husband who won't interfere with her lifestyle. Tommy is still holding out hope that someday he can openly be with his true love, Mario.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Marion Zimmer Bradley disliked this trope and tried not to use it; when she resorted to it in ''Hunters of the Red Moon'', the translator sometimes wouldn't convey cultural nuances or figures of speech.
* TheReptilians: In ''The Brass Dragon'', the Dikri are a race of cold, ruthless dragon-like aliens who can shape-shift into human form. They act as renegades, interfering on primitive worlds in violation of interstellar rules.
* SdrawkcabName: ''Falcons of Narabedla'' -- "Narabedla" is the reverse of Aldebaran, the name of the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.
* SettledForGay: A female friend of Tommy's suggests this in ''The Catch Trap'' because she wants to concentrate on her career but would like to have a husband who won't interfere with her lifestyle. Tommy is still holding out hope that someday he can openly be with his true love, Mario.
* TranslatorMicrobes: Marion Zimmer Bradley disliked this trope and tried not to use it; when she resorted to it in ''Hunters of the Red Moon'', the translator sometimes wouldn't convey cultural nuances or figures of speech.
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* {{Bifauxnen}} / SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler: Lythande]] passes for an attractively eccentric male. And has to maintain that pretense, ''forever''.
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She was most famous for her ''{{Darkover}}'' ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' series and the novel ''TheMistsOfAvalon''. ''Literature/TheMistsOfAvalon''. She was a contributor to the ''ThievesWorld'' ''Literature/ThievesWorld'' setting, with a sequence of stories featuring Lythande, Mage of the Blue Star. She also dove into gay and lesbian [[PulpMagazine Pulp Fiction]] early in her career.
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* {{Atlantis}}: ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web of Light''
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I know, and it\'s ghastly, but it\'s legally unproven (and afaik only the one victim has come forward so far). For the moment, a cautious position with a link to more information seems wise. Feel free to add a link to the blog where her daughter talked about it though, I don\'t have the link handy.
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Her former husband was convicted of a number of offenses involving children, and it transpires, not only that [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement there is debate as to what extent she was aware of and or complicit in these activities, but that she molested her own daughter repeatedly for many years. activities.]] See TheOtherWiki for more information.
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With more and more information coming to light, it is necessary to leave very clear that she was definitely complicit in her husband\'s crimes, and not only that, but that she was a child rapist herself. Of her own daughter, among others.
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** It would be more accurate to say that Firebrand retells the story of the entire Trojan War. The Iliad does not tell the entire story of that ten-year conflict, but just a few months in the ninth year of the war. Firebrand begins long before the war and goes to the and (and a bit after);
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->''Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.''
-->-- '''Marion Zimmer Bradley'''
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) was a prolific SpeculativeFiction and {{Fantasy}} writer who was often regarded as having a feminist bent to her work. MZB, as she was known to fans, was a co-founder and the namer of The Society for Creative Anachronism.
She was most famous for her ''{{Darkover}}'' series and the novel ''TheMistsOfAvalon''. She was a contributor to the ''ThievesWorld'' setting, with a sequence of stories featuring Lythande, Mage of the Blue Star. She also dove into gay and lesbian [[PulpMagazine Pulp Fiction]] early in her career.
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!!Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley with their own trope pages include:
* {{Darkover}} series
* ''TheMistsOfAvalon''
!!Other works by Marion Zimmer Bradley provide examples of:
* {{Atlantis}}: ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web of Light''
* ContemptibleCover: ''[[http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/03/hunters-of-the-red-moon/ Hunters of the Red Moon]]''
* KnifeThrowingAct: ''Knives of Desire''
** Bradley was also a target girl for a knife-thrower act herself in her younger days
* PerspectiveFlip: ''The Firebrand'' retells Literature/TheIliad from the perspective of Kassandra.
** It would be more accurate to say that Firebrand retells the story of the entire Trojan War. The Iliad does not tell the entire story of that ten-year conflict, but just a few months in the ninth year of the war. Firebrand begins long before the war and goes to the and (and a bit after);
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->''Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.''
-->-- '''Marion Zimmer Bradley'''
Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999) was a prolific SpeculativeFiction and {{Fantasy}} writer who was often regarded as having a feminist bent to her work. MZB, as she was known to fans, was a co-founder and the namer of The Society for Creative Anachronism.
She was most famous for her ''{{Darkover}}'' series and the novel ''TheMistsOfAvalon''. She was a contributor to the ''ThievesWorld'' setting, with a sequence of stories featuring Lythande, Mage of the Blue Star. She also dove into gay and lesbian [[PulpMagazine Pulp Fiction]] early in her career.
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!!Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley with their own trope pages include:
* {{Darkover}} series
* ''TheMistsOfAvalon''
!!Other works by Marion Zimmer Bradley provide examples of:
* {{Atlantis}}: ''Web of Darkness'' and ''Web of Light''
* ContemptibleCover: ''[[http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/03/hunters-of-the-red-moon/ Hunters of the Red Moon]]''
* KnifeThrowingAct: ''Knives of Desire''
** Bradley was also a target girl for a knife-thrower act herself in her younger days
* PerspectiveFlip: ''The Firebrand'' retells Literature/TheIliad from the perspective of Kassandra.
** It would be more accurate to say that Firebrand retells the story of the entire Trojan War. The Iliad does not tell the entire story of that ten-year conflict, but just a few months in the ninth year of the war. Firebrand begins long before the war and goes to the and (and a bit after);
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