Sword and Sorceress 31

Sword and Sorceress #31

by Elisabeth Waters

Women of Magic and Wisdom...

For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, best-selling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a new generation of authors. The roster of contributors over the years includes Mercedes Lackey, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charles de Lint, Diana L. Paxson, Emma Bull, Jennifer Roberson, and countless others.

The original stories featured here include such stellar authors as Dave Smeds, Deborah J. Ross, Robin Wayne Bailey, Pauline J. Alama, and exciting newcomers whose voices are sure to be heard again.

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress

Enter a wondrous universe...

Volume 31 includes stories by Pauline J. Alama, Marian Allen, Robin Wayne Bailey, Lorie Calkins, Steve Chapman, Suzan Harden, Rose Hill, Melissa Mead, Catherine Mintz, Michael H. Payne, Deborah J. Ross, L.S. Patton, Jonathan Shipley, Dave Smeds, Laura Davy, Pam L. Wallace and Julia H. West.

Genres: Fantasy

278 pages, Paperback

First published November 2, 2016

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Jimyanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

As with almost any anthology, the quality of the writing varies from story to story. As with most books in this series, the proofreading is spotty. But also as with most books in this series, most of the stories are quite good, and both the quality of the writing and the editing of this book mark it as one of the better books in the last ten years of this series, which makes it, overall, quite good indeed.

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another wonderful set of short stories for the series.