![]() ![]() ![]() After her death, it was decided to take as many as possible of the stories she had tentatively chosen and publish them in three annual volumes, thus extending the series. For the eighteenth volume, which she was editing at the time of her death, she had enough material for three volumes. As a result, she had to become more selective, and to shorten her reading periods accordingly. Many of the early sword-and-sorcery works featured attitudes toward women that Bradley considered appalling.Īs the Sword and Sorceress series grew in popularity with readers, she began to receive increasing numbers of excellent submissions. At the time, most female characters in sword and sorcery were little more than stock damsels in distress, or pawns who were distributed at the conclusion of the story as "bad-conduct prizes" (Bradley's term) for the male protagonists. As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonists in the subgenre of sword and sorcery. The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies originally edited by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books. ![]() For other uses, see Swords & sorcery (disambiguation). This article is about the series of genre short story anthologies. ![]()
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