I believe the Sword & Sorceress series was important, and I'm grateful to Bradley for creating it. Jim Hines, who received his 'very first rejection letter' from Bradley, and who went on to sell stories to to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine and to her anthology Sword & Sorceress XXI, wrote on his blog: 'I'm proud of those stories. You can't cover shit in gold leaf and then claim it doesn't stink.' Will never recommend any of her work again. 'I can forgive artists for falling short of their ideals,' she tweeted, 'but not for CHILD ABUSE. The Hugo award-winning author John Scalzi called the allegations 'horrific' on Twitter, while the World Fantasy award winner G Willow Wilson said she was 'speechless'. Others said they would not be reading Bradley's novels again. What I can do is see to it that my having written in her worlds goes towards fighting those same hurts and abuses in the places they're happening now.'

But I also can't deny the harm caused by the flawed creator of that work. MZB played a huge role in many of our careers, and it's not my intention to deny that, or to deny how deeply many readers were touched – and in some cases saved – by MZB's work. Simner wrote on her blog that 'I remain proud of the Darkover stories I've written, and I respect the many fellow writers who also got their start on the pages of MZB's anthologies and in her magazine. The accusations have already led one of these writers, Janni Lee Simner, to announce that she is donating the royalties and advances she made from her Darkover stories to the anti-abuse charity RAINN. Set on a planet colonised by humans, the world of Darkover has continued in anthologies written by other authors. Bradley, who died in 1999, has been a celebrated author, beloved for her take on the Arthurian legend, The Mists of Avalon, which told the story from the perspectives of the women behind the throne, and for the Darkover stories. Walter was a serial rapist with many, many, many victims (I named 22 to the cops) but Marion was far, far worse.' Greyland wrote in her email to Moen: 'I put Walter in jail for molesting one boy. Greyland is the daughter of Bradley and Walter Breen, who was jailed for child molestation and died in prison. I am not her only victim, nor were her only victims girls.' The last time, I was 12, and able to walk away … She was cruel and violent, as well as completely out of her mind sexually. Moira Greyland, Bradley's daughter, went public with her accusation on the blog of the author Deirdre Saoirse Moen earlier this month, giving Moen permission to quote from an email in which she wrote: 'The first time she molested me, I was three.

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