- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; First THUS edition (April 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0886772680
- ISBN-13: 978-0886772680
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.4 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,465,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Range of styles from a writer ahead of her time,
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This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Paperback)
This anthology spans the many decades and styles of Marion Zimmer Bradley's writing career. The contents may be something of a surprise to some readers, as fantasy-oriented work is in the minority; what you will find here, however, is some excellent SF. I am always surprised that MZB is not considered a 'feminist' writer, as her work deals with themes of gender on other planets as much as does, say, Le Guin's, and many of the stories here deal with the experience of *women* in space, and yet hail from a period where the predominent mood in SF was the hard, 'boys' own adventure' type.There is some truly interesting and perhaps startling stuff here - 'The Engine' in particular is one of the most unsettling SF stories I have read (and that's saying a lot!). There is also some more familiar territory covered, such as the Darkovan story of how Camilla joined the Free Amazons.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Short Stories at there best,
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This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Paperback)
For stressful times when you need a good read but have only 5-10 minutes this is ideal. There are 15 short stories in all in this book. As well as the darkover location you will also find earth. I wont spoil it by giving to much away however one of my favourites involves self-sacrifice.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Deceptive Advertising,
By Elisabeth Waters - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (Kindle Edition)
There is a book of MZB's short stories called THE BEST OF MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY (aka JAMIE AND OTHER STORIES). There is even a Kindle version of it The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley: Jamie and other stories, with added introductions and an additional story. This is NOT it. This is a few of her old public-domain works, which are available for free at Gutenberg.com and similar sites, with a duplicated title. It is erroneously linked to the books with the same title, and the two reviews currently attached to it are for the book and not for this item. Also, these don't even come close to being "the best" of her work; they were written very early in her career and her skill did increase over the next few decades.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Short Stories from Darkover to Lythande...,
By "ferrazalves" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Paperback)
This book presents us to several short stories written by MZB with her incredible imagination, showing many different worlds, going from Earth to Darkover. You can read one story telling about the renunciants organization(Darkover), another one is about Lythande (a blue star magician with a secret). In my opinion, the best short story in this book, is the one about the Centauru's Children - where having a baby is the same to a death sentence to the mother... Well everyone can decide what is the most interesting of the 15 short stories of this book and vote in it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a good read,
By John C. Gaydon "Linda Wolfsong" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bradley Marion Z. : Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (Daw science fiction) (Paperback)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. MZB says short stories are not her forte but these are terrific. In addition, they include lots of sci fi. I am used to reading her fantasy genre. I thought these were top quality.
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