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Chicks And Balances
''Chicks and Balances'' is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner and John Helfers, with a cover by Tom Wood. 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. It was the sixth of a series of similarly themed anthologies, the first five of which were edited by Friesner alone. Summary The book collects 22 short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction and a section of notes about the authors by Friesner. Contents * "Introduction" ( Esther Friesner) * "A Chick Off the Old Block" ( Jody Lynn Nye) * "The Girls from the Hood" (Jim C. Hines) * "Smackdown at Walmart" ( Elizabeth A. Vaughan) * "The Mammyth" ( Harry Turtledove) * "Give a Girl a Sword" ( Kerrie L. Hughes) * "Bite Me" ( Steven Harper Piziks) * "Dark Pixii" (Wen Spencer) * "A Warrior Looks at 40" ( Julie S. Mandala) * "Roll Model" ( Esther Friesner) * "Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerrie L
Kerrie is a locality in the Macedon Ranges region of Victoria, Australia, featuring a town hall (1934) and the closed Kerrie State School (c. 1877). The school was closed in 1991, but remains an important venue for community meetings and events. The buildings and grounds are heritage listed and underwent external restoration during 2009–2010. Near the hall are the former tennis courts, now overgrown and in a state of disrepair. The Kerrie Valley is the source of domestic water for the nearby town of Romsey. The catchment reservoir consists of a dam on a tributary of the Bolinda Bolinda is a locality north of Melbourne, Australia on the Melbourne-Lancefield Road. It is 6 km. south of Romsey, within the Shire of Macedon Ranges The Shire of Macedon Ranges is a region in Central Victoria, Australia, best known f ... Creek. Kerrie Post Office opened on 10 July 1891 and closed in 1949. References Towns in Victoria (Australia) Shire of Macedon Ranges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Swann
Louisa may refer to: Places ;Australia * Louisa Island (Tasmania) ;Canada * Louisa or Lac-Louisa, a community in Wentworth, Quebec ;Malaysia * Louisa Reef, Sabah ;United States * Louisa, Kentucky * Louisa, Missouri * Louisa, Virginia * Louisa County, Iowa * Louisa County, Virginia ;Belgium * Louisa - Square in Brussels and metro station, next to Palace de Justice, see Avenue Louise Other * HMS ''Louisa'', the name of four ships of the Royal Navy * ''Louisa'' (ship), United States ship of the 1800s * ''Louisa'' (film), 1950 film starring Ronald Reagan People with the given name * Louisa of Great Britain (1749–1768) *Louisa, Countess of Craven, originally Louisa Brunton (1785?–1860), English actress * Louisa (singer) (born Louisa Johnson, 1998), English singer * Louisa Adams (1775–1852), First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 *Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist, short story writer and poet *Louisa Rose Allen, English singer and songwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Frankos
Laura Frankos-Turtledove is an American author born February 9, 1960. She writes as Laura Frankos. Biography Frankos is married to the science fiction author Harry Turtledove and has three daughters: Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca. Her brother is fantasy author Steven Frankos Steven Frankos is an American fantasy author. Biography Frankos is the brother of mystery, fantasy and science fiction author Laura Frankos and the brother-in-law of science fiction author Harry Turtledove. Literary career Frankos has written si .... Literary career Frankos has written mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories. She has published one mystery novel, ''Saint Oswald's Niche'', which is currently out of print, a time travel novel, ''Broadway Revival'', and ''The Broadway Musical Quiz Book''. Frankos also writes the Broadway history column "The Great White Wayback Machine" and has published numerous trivia quizzes about Broadway plays. Bibliography Novels *''St. Oswald's Niche'' (1992) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda L
Linda may refer to: As a name * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake in 1924), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Places * Linda, California, a census-designated place * Linda, Missouri, a ghost town * Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda, Georgia, village in Abkhazia, Georgia * Linda, Bashkortostan, village in Bashkortostan, Russia * Linda Valley, Tasmania * 7169 Linda, an asteroid * Linda, a small lunar crater - see Delisle (crater) Music * ''Linda'' (Linda George album), 1974 * ''Linda'' (Linda Clifford album), 1977 * ''Linda'' (Miguel Bosé album), 1978 ** "Linda" (Miguel Bosé song), the title song * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Wesley Smith
Dean Wesley Smith (born November 10, 1950) is an American writer of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Smith has published nearly 200 novels and hundreds of short stories. Smith has also written novels for licensed properties such as ''Star Trek'', ''Spider-Man'', '' X-Men'', '' Men in Black,'' and many other gaming, television, and movie properties. Smith's novel ''Laying the Music to Rest'', was nominated for the 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Smith's short story, ''In the Shade of the Slowboat Man'', was nominated for the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. He is married to fellow writer/editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch; they have collaborated on several works. Smith and Rusch operated Pulphouse Publishing for many years and edited the original (hardback) incarnation of ''Pulphouse Magazine''; they won a World Fantasy Award in 1989. Bibliography Shadow Warrior *''For Dead Eyes Only,'' Pocket, October 1997 The Tenth Planet with Kristine K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Martindale
Lee may refer to: Name Given name * Lee (given name), a given name in English Surname * Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese surname *Lý (Vietnamese surname) or Lí (李), a common Vietnamese surname * Lee (Korean surname) or Rhee or Yi (Hanja , Hangul or ), a common Korean surname * Lee (English surname), a common English surname * List of people with surname Lee **List of people with surname Li ** List of people with the Korean family name Lee Geography United Kingdom * Lee, Devon * Lee, Hampshire * Lee, London * Lee, Mull, a location in Argyll and Bute * Lee, Northumberland, a location * Lee, Shropshire, a location * Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire * Lee District (Metropolis) * The Lee, Buckinghamshire, parish and village name, formally known as Lee * River Lee - alternative name for River Lea United States * Lee, California * Lee, Florida * Lee, Illinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Resnick
Laura Resnick (born August 17, 1962) is an American fantasy writer. She was the winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction for 1993. The daughter of science fiction author Mike Resnick, she formerly wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Laura Leone. Early life and education Resnick was born in Chicago to Carol and Mike Resnick. The family moved to Cincinnati when she was young. She graduated from Georgetown and studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Resnick wrote romance novels for Harlequin for several years before switching to writing fantasy. Her first fantasy series, a trilogy titled The Chronicles of Sirkara, were reviewed by Publishers Weekly, the final two books with starred reviews. Awards *''Romantic Times Magazine'' Award 1989 *''Romantic Times Magazine'' Award 1993 *John W. Campbell Award 1993 *Rita Award finalist, 2004 *''Romantic Times Magazine'' Award 2004 Bibliography Novels The Esther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Wayne Bailey
Robin Wayne Bailey (born 1952) is an American writer of speculative fiction, both fantasy and science fiction. He is a founder of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (1996) and a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA, 2005–2007). Life Bailey graduated from North Kansas City High School and received a B. A. in English and Anthropology and a M. A. in English Literature from Northwest Missouri State University.Diana J. Bailey, Robin's wife, 2011. He debuted as a fiction writer with the novel ''Frost'', published by Timescape Books in 1983 and followed with two sequels and a few short stories during the next three years. Bailey's works include ''Shadowdance'', the Frost series, The Brothers of the Dragon, and Dragonkin fantasy trilogies and '' Swords Against the Shadowland'', a novel interpolated in the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series of sword and sorcery stories by Fritz Leiber. A direct sequel to Leiber's most famous story "Ill Met in Lankhmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah A
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been the aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Shvartsman
Alex Shvartsman (born November 19, 1975) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and editor known primarily for humorous short stories. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 for his short story "Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma" published in the ''InterGalactic Medicine Show'' magazine. He won the WSFA Small Press Award in 2014 and was a finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing in 2015 and 2017. Alex Shvartsman is also a ''Magic: The Gathering'' player. While having enjoyed only a moderate degree of success on the Pro Tour, he is one of the most successful Grand Prix Grand Prix ( , meaning ''Grand Prize''; plural Grands Prix), is a name sometimes used for competitions or sport events, alluding to the winner receiving a prize, trophy or honour Grand Prix or grand prix may refer to: Arts and entertainment ... players ever. With 21 appearances, Shvartsman held the record for most Grand Prix top eights for a long tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rabe
Jean Rabe is an American journalist, editor, gamer and writer of fantasy and mystery. After a career as a newspaper reporter, she was employed by TSR, Inc. for several years as head of the Role Playing Game Association and editor of the ''Polyhedron'' magazine. Rabe began a career as a novelist for TSR and Wizards of the Coast, and over the last 30 years has produced over three dozen books and scores of short stories, at first in the genres of game-related fantasy and science fiction and later as an author of mystery novels. Rabe wrote game accessories and novels for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy worlds of ''Greyhawk'', ''Forgotten Realms'' and ''Dragonlance'', and contributed to West End Games' '' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'' and FASA's ''BattleTech'' product lines. She served the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as business manager and editor of the association's ''SFWA Bulletin'' until 2013. Rabe has become known for collaborations with Andre Norton a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
