Chicks and Balances

{{Short description|2015 fantasy story anthology}}

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{{Infobox book |

| name = Chicks and Balances

| title_orig =

| translator =

| image = Chicks and Balances.jpg

| caption = Cover of the first edition

| author = Edited by Esther Friesner and John Helfers

| cover_artist = Tom Wood

| country = United States

| language = English

| series = Chicks in Chainmail

| genre = Fantasy

| publisher = Baen Books

| release_date = 2015

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 336 pp.

| isbn = 978-1-4767-8063-4

| dewey = 813.08766083522 23

| congress = PS648.F3 C48 2015

| oclc = 894936615

| preceded_by = Turn the Other Chick

| followed_by =

}}

Chicks and Balances is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner and John Helfers, with a cover by Tom Wood.{{isfdb title|id=1861343}} It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in trade paperback and e-book form by Baen Books in July 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfwa.org/2015/07/endeavour-award-finalists-announced/|title=Endeavor Award Finalists Announced|website=Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|date=July 10, 2015}} It was the sixth of a series of similarly themed anthologies, the first five of which were edited by Friesner alone.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/esther-m-friesner/chicks-and-balances.htm|title=Fantastic Fiction.com: Of Chicks and Balances by Esther Friesner and John Helfers|website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}