Chicks in Chainmail
{{Short description|1995 anthology of fantasy stories edited by Esther Friesner}}
{{Infobox book |
|name = Chicks in Chainmail
|image = Chicks in Chainmail.jpg
|caption = First edition
|editor = Esther Friesner
|cover_artist = Larry Elmore
|country = United States
|language = English
|series = Chicks in Chainmail
|genre = Fantasy
|publisher = Baen Books
|release_date = 1995
|media_type = Print (paperback)
|pages = 341 pp.
|isbn = 0-671-87682-1
|congress = CPB Box no. 1849 vol. 15
|oclc = 33039808
|followed_by = Did You Say Chicks?!
}}
Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore.{{Cite web |title=Chicks in Chainmail by Esther Friesner |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/esther-m-friesner/chicks-in-chainmail.htm |publisher=Fantastic Fiction}} It consists of works featuring female protagonists mostly written by female authors. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in September 1995, with a hardcover edition following from Baen in conjunction with the Science Fiction Book Club in January 1996. It was the first of a number of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner.
The book collects 20 short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.
Contents
- "Introduction" (Esther Friesner)
- "Lady of Steel" (Roger Zelazny)
- "And Ladies of the Club" (Elizabeth Moon)
- "Exchange Program" (Susan Shwartz)
- "Goddess for a Day" (Harry Turtledove)
- "Armor-Ella" (Holly Lisle)
- "Career Day" (Margaret Ball)
- "Armor/Amore" (David Vierling)
- "The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg" (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough)
- "The Growling" (Jody Lynn Nye)
- "The New Britomart" (Eluki bes Shahar)
- "On the Road of Silver" (Mark Bourne)
- "Bra Melting" (Janni Lee Simner)
- "The Old Grind" (Laura Frankos)
- "The Way to a Man's Heart" (Esther Friesner)
- "Whoops!" (Nancy Springer)
- "The Guardswoman" (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
- "Teacher's Pet" (Josepha Sherman)
- "Were-Wench" (Jan Stirling)
- "Blood Calls to Blood" (Elisabeth Waters)
- "Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD" (George Alec Effinger)
Related works
The “Chicks in Chainmail” franchise includes a novel—Mathemagics: A Chicks in Chainmail Novel (1996) by Margaret Ball (writer)—and the ongoing series of “Chicks” anthologies edited by Friesner:
- Chicks in Chainmail (1995)
- Did You Say Chicks?! (1998)
- Chicks 'n Chained Males (1999)
- The Chick Is in the Mail (2000)
- Turn the Other Chick (2004)
- Chicks and Balances (2015)
: Chicks Ahoy! (2010) omnibus of first three volumes
Esther Friesner also edited a "Suburban Fantasy" anthology series,{{cite web |title=Witch Way to the Mall |url=https://www.baen.com/witch-way-to-the-mall.html |publisher=Baen Books}} similarly focused on female protagonists:
- Witch Way to the Mall (June 2009) {{ISBN|1-4391-3274-7}}
- Strip Mauled (October 2009) {{ISBN|1-4391-3320-4}}
- Fangs for the Mammaries (2010) {{ISBN|1-4391-3392-1}}
References
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External links
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