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Susan Shwartz

Susan Shwartz (born December 31, 1949) is an American author.

She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a PhD in English from Harvard University.

Shwartz's Heirs to Byzantium trilogy – Byzantium's Crown (1987), The Woman of Flowers (1987) and Queensblade (1988) is an alternate history series. The Heirs to Byzantium novels are set in a world where Marc Antony defeats Octavius in the Battle of Actium, and joins with Cleopatra to make Byzantium capital of the Roman Empire.

Shwartz's novel The Grail of Hearts (1992) is a fantasy that features the Holy Grail. It also features a sympathetic version of Kundry from Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal; Shwart's Kundry is depicted as a version of the Wandering Jew.

Shwartz has published several novels and sixty short stories.

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  • Cover of: Sisters in Fantasy 2

    First published in 1996 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1982 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1982 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1986 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1992 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 2005 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Interplanetary voyages, Fantasy fiction, History, Science fiction, Space ships, Spock (Fictitious character), Spock (fictitious character), fiction, Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Crusades, Fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Knights and knighthood, collectionID:STmisc, Crusades, fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Kings and rulers, Science Fiction
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Byzantine Empire, China, Planet Vulcan, Rome
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Alexius I Comnenus Emperor of the East (1048-1118), Spock
Time
Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118, First, 1096-1099, 20th century, Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.

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June 1, 2023 Edited by tmanarl viaf
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April 20, 2017 Edited by Uzume Added new photo
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