Adrienne Martine-Barnes (1942-2015)

Adrienne Martine-Barnes, 73, died July 20, 2015 in a Portland OR hospital.

Born January 19, 1942 in Los Angeles CA, Barnes began publishing with “Di Catenas” (1982) in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover anthology Swords of Chaos. Her debut novel The Dragon Rises appeared in 1983, and her series Chronique D’Avebury includes The Fire Sword (1984), The Crystal Sword (1988), The Rainbow Sword (1988), and The Sea Sword (1989). She collaborated with Bradley on three Darkover novels: Exile’s Song (1996), The Shadow Matrix (1997), and Traitor’s Sun (1999). With Diana L. Paxson she wrote the Chronicles of Fionn mac Cumhal: Master of Earth and Water (1993), The Shield Between the Worlds (1994), and Sword of Fire and Shadow (1995).