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The Complete Lythande

The Complete Lythande

FantasyAdventure
Pages
256
Published
2013
Language
English
Prose complexity
4/10

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AdventurousMysterious
Quest

Genres

Fantasy Adventure Short Stories

Authors

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Elisabeth Waters

Elisabeth Waters writes fantasy, including works like Lady of the Trillium, Music of Darkover, and In Celebration of Lammas Night. She is also a contributor to the *Sword and Sorceress

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer was born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression. As a child, she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy stories. She began writing them herself in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex in 1952. She also married Robert Alden Bradley in 1949. Early in her career, she used pseudonyms for stories she wrote outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels such as I Am a Lesbian (1962). In 1964 she divorced her first husband...

Frequently asked questions

  • Is Lythande a male or female character?

    Lythande's gender is deliberately ambiguous throughout the stories, a central element of the character's mystique and a recurring theme explored by the author.

  • How does this collection relate to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series?

    While Lythande's stories are distinct, they share thematic elements and a similar approach to magic and societal structures that will feel familiar to readers of Bradley's Darkover novels, though they are not set in the same universe.

  • Are the stories in this collection connected or standalone?

    The collection features a series of interconnected short stories and novellas that follow Lythande's journey, building a larger narrative arc while each piece also functions as a complete adventure.