Series
Sword and Sorceress
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters, Deborah J. Ross, Diana L. Paxson & Rachel E. Holmen · 34 anthologies · 1984–2019
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. 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. 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" for the male protagonists. Many of the early sword-and-sorcery works featured attitudes toward women that Bradley considered appalling.
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- 1980s5
- 1990s11
- 2000s8
- 2010s10
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34 anthologies
5 authors
reads like:sword and sorcerygender and societysecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 94% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book34 of 34 works carry a tone
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- Sword and Sorceress XIIdarkest · calmest
- Sword and Sorceressbrightest · most intense