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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: Vulcan's Forge: Star Trek
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    First published in 1987 — 7 editions
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Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, American Fantasy fiction, 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, general, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Knights and knighthood, collectionID:STmisc, Crusades, fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Kings and rulers

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Byzantine Empire, China, Planet Vulcan, Rome

People

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
August 23, 2021 Edited by tmanarl bio
April 20, 2017 Edited by Uzume Added new photo
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import