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Elisabeth Waters

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The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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Madeleine L'Engle, Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley ...more

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Elisabeth Waters sold her first short story in 1980 to Marion Zimmer Bradley for The Keeper's Price, the first of the Darkover anthologies. She then went on to sell dozens of short stories to a variety of anthologies. Her first novel, a fantasy called Changing Fate, was awarded the 1989 Gryphon Award. Its sequel is Mending Fate, published in 2016.

She currently writes short stories and has edited the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which ended with Sword and Sorceress 34.

She has also worked as a supernumerary with the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared in La Gioconda, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Khovanschina, Das Rheingold, Werther, and Idomeneo. ...more

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It's that time of year again: the publication of the annual Valdemar anthology, and my annual animal story. This year it's called "A Siege of Cranes." Lena, my protagonist with Animal MindSpeech, prefers animals to most people, probably because she finds animals easier to talk to. She is stuck at Court, however, because she is no longer able to persuade her guardian, who also hap Read more of this blog post »

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Elisabeth Waters’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 26,019 ratings · 783 reviews · 133 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sword and Sorceress 23 4.23 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword and Sorceress 22 4.16 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword and Sorceress 24 4.16 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The School Up the Hill 4.25 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword and Sorceress 25 by Elisabeth Waters (Editor/Contributor), Dave Smeds (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jonathan Shipley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Storytelling of Crows 4.31 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Charm of Finches 4.47 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing Fate (Fate, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sword and Sorceress 26 4.22 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Leash of Greyhounds 4.38 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elisabeth Waters

Hilary Cycle (6 books)
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Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Fate (2 books)
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3.92 avg rating — 165 ratings

Treasures of Albion (8 books)
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Michael Spence

4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings

Quotes by Elisabeth Waters (?)

“Never take the universe personally.”
― Elisabeth Waters

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“name was a closely guarded secret until after her birth.”
― Elisabeth Waters, Sword and Sorceress 33

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