Marion Zimmer Bradley’s beloved world of Darkover encompasses many realms, from glacier-shrouded mountains to arid wastelands, from ancient kingdoms to space-faring empires. Now this all-new anthology welcomes old friends and new fans to explore these landscapes of time and place, history and imagination.
Leslie Fish says she learned to sing and to read at a very young age,
playing guitar at sixteen, and writing the first of hundreds of songs shortly
thereafter, including settings of Rudyard Kipling's poetry and the “all-time
most notorious” Star Trek filksong ever written: “Banned From Argo”. She’s
recorded a number of albums and composed songs, both alone and collaborative,
on albums from every major filk label. She was elected to the Filk Hall Of Fame
as one of the first inductees. In college, she majored in English and minoring
in psychology, protest and politics, joined the Industrial Workers of the
World, and did psychology counseling for veterans. Her other jobs included
railroad yard clerk, go-go dancer, and social worker. She currently lives in
Arizona with her husband Rasty and a variable number of cats, which she breeds
for intelligence.
Deborah J. Ross: When and why did you begin writing?
Leslie Fish: As soon as I learned to write, I started
writing stories, jokes, songs, poems, anything I could put on paper. I'd always
loved storytelling, and writing was a way of preserving a story, plain and
simple.
DJR: Tell us about your introduction to Darkover.
LF: I was poking through a local bookstore and came across The Sword of Aldones in paperback -- and
I was hooked.
DJR: What about the world or its inhabitants drew you in?
LF: I was fascinated with the idea of a society of psychics,
complete with a technology of psionics. And of course there were all the
other fascinating intelligent beings on the planet.
DJR: What do you see as the future of Darkover?
LF: Expanding! My latest story is about one of the
native non-human(?) species plotting and politicking to survive and succeed in
the aftermath of the Terran Empire. I can imagine countless tales about
the human and non-human Darkovans dealing with that future.
