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She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a
man could claim She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and
forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down
for its evils and jealousies. She had the MacAran Gift, the rare laran
that conferred mastery over hawk and horse. There was war in the lands
of Darkover for this was the age of chaos when usurpers took the throne
and the true king wandered in disguise with a price on his head. Romilly
wanted none of all this, but there were those who shared her talents -
the men and women of the Towers. And for them, Romilly was the key.
Whether male-garbed or beast-minded, she was also human. And duty to her
own true kind pointed her to the ultimate decision. Marion Zimmer
Bradley (1930 - 1999) Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New
York, in 1930, and married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. She received a
B. A. from Hardin Simmons University, Texas, and did post-graduate work
at the University of California, Berkeley, during which time she helped
found the Society for Creative Anachronism. She sold her first story in
1952 and was a writer of note for over four decades. Bradley is best
known for two signature series: the 'Darkover' science fantasy series
and her Arthurian masterpiece, The Mists of Avalon and its sequels. She
also edited anthologies for 14 years and published Marion Zimmer
Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, which ran for 50 quarterly issues between
1988 and the end of 2000. Marion Zimmer Bradley died in Berkeley,
California, on September 25, 1999, four days after suffering a major
heart attack.
