The Door Through Space
By Marion Zimmer Bradley
“Look!”
Rakhal had turned his back on the scanner, and for the first time, I could see who he was talking to. A hunched, catlike shoulder twisted; a curved neck, a high-held head that was not quite human.
“Evarin!” I swore. “That does it. He knows now that I’m not Rakhal if he didn’t know it all along! Come on, girl, we’re getting out of here!”
There was no pretence of normality this time as we dashed through the workroom. Fingers dropped from half-completed Toys as they stared after us. Toys! I wanted to stop and smash them all. But if we hurried, we might find Rakhal. And, with luck, we would discover Evarin with him.
And then I was going to bang their heads together. I’d reached a saturation point on adventure. I’d had all I wanted. I realized that I’d been up all night and that I was exhausted. I wanted to murder and smash and fall down somewhere and go to sleep all at once. We banged the workroom door shut, and I took time to shove a heavy divan against it, blocking it.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series.
Biography.
Noted for the feminist perspective in her writing, her reputation has been posthumously marred by her daughter Moira Greyland’s accusations of child sexual abuse and for allegedly assisting her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter Breen, in sexually abusing multiple unrelated children.
Bradley began writing at 17 and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Hardin-Simmons University. 1966, she co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism and edited the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series. In 2000, she was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement.
In 2014, her daughter Moira accused her of sexual abuse, and it was revealed that Bradley was aware of her second husband, Walter H. Breen’s, child molestation activities. In response to the allegations, the publisher of Bradley’s digital backlist began donating all income from her e-books to the charity Save the Children. Several science fiction authors have since publicly condemned Bradley.
Born Marion Eleanor Zimmer on June 3, 1930, she lived on a farm in Albany, New York, and began writing at 17. She married Robert Alden Bradley from October 26, 1949, until their divorce on May 19, 1964. They had a son, David Robert Bradley (1950–2008). During the 1950s, she was introduced to the lesbian advocacy organization the Daughters of Bilitis.
After her divorce, Bradley married numismatist Walter H. Breen on June 3, 1964. They had a daughter, Moira Greyland, a professional harpist and singer, and a son, Mark Greyland. Moira’s son, RJ Stern, is a college football player who was featured on season 5 of Last Chance U on Netflix.
1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Afterwards, she moved to Berkeley, California, to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley between 1965 and 1967. In 1966, with her brother Paul Edwin Zimmer, she helped to name the Society for Creative Anachronism. After her move to Staten Island, she developed several local groups, some in New York.
Literary career
Bradley stated that when she was a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, C.L. Moore, 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 strong influence. At 17, she began her first novel, The Forest House, her retelling of Norma; she finished it before her death.
Bradley made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Amazing Stories in 1949 with the short story “Outpost”. “Outpost” was published in Amazing Stories Vol. 23, No. 12, the December 1949 issue; it had previously appeared in the fanzine Spacewarp Vol. 4, No. 3, in December 1948. Her first professional publication was a short story, “Women Only”, which appeared in the second (and final) issue of Vortex Science Fiction in 1953. Her first novel was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
