Book description
Since time immemorial, when the Serpent-lord coupled in the Great Rite
with the Priestess of the Night, the Kingdoms of Light and Dark, of Sun
and of Moon have been at war. Now Pamina, daughter of the Starqueen,
supreme symbol of the Night, and of Sarastro, King of the Royal House of
the Sun, has to choose which of her parents she will follow, in custom
and in principle. And together with her lover, the princely Tamino, she
must face her Ordeal at the Court of Wisdom, Ordeals of Earth and Air,
of Fire and Water, from which none can flinch and none can escape.
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.
