Amazons!

{{Short description|Fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson}}

{{Infobox book |

| name = Amazons!

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| translator =

| image = SalmonsonAmazons.jpg

| caption = Cover of the first edition

| editor = Jessica Amanda Salmonson

| cover_artist = Michael Whelan

| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Fantasy

| publisher = DAW Books

| release_date = 1979

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 206

| isbn = 0-87997-503-2

| oclc = 5951403

| preceded_by =

| followed_by = Amazons II

}}

Amazons! is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, with a cover and frontispiece by Michael Whelan. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in December 1979, and was the first significant fantasy anthology of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors.{{isfdb title|id=35379}} It received the 1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. A follow-up anthology, Amazons II, was released in 1982. The story "Agbewe's Sword" by Charles R. Saunders was adapted into the 1986 film Amazons.{{cite book |last1=Ellsworth |first1=Lawrence |title=Cinema of Swords: A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Barbarians, and Vikings (and Samurai and Musketeers and Gladiators and Outlaw Heroes) |date=June 15, 2023 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781493065639 |page=17 |url=https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Cinema_of_Swords/IKyzEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Agbewe%27s+Sword%22+%22amazons%22&pg=PA17&printsec=frontcover}}