Book description
'Still my fate: always to speak the truth, and only to be thought mad'
Kassandra, daughter of Priam the king and Hecuba the priestess, twin
sister to Paris and prophetess of Apollo, her visions dismissed as
lunatic ravings, is powerless to avert the fall of Troy 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.
