''Chicks 'n Chained Males'' is an
anthology
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of
fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction that involves supernatural or Magic (supernatural), magical elements, often including Fictional universe, imaginary places and Legendary creature, creatures.
The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
stories, edited by
Esther Friesner
Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman ( Friesner; born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is also a poet and playwright. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themselves. ...
with the assistance of
Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned ...
, with a cover by
Larry Elmore
Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines, and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for ''Dungeons & Dragons'', ''Dragonlance'', ...
.
It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in
paperback
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by
Baen Books
Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher an ...
in May 1999. It was the third of a number of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner.
The book collects 18 short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.
As per the volume's title, most of the stories involve heroic women having to rescue men from captivity, reversing the
damsel in distress
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trope.
Contents
* "Introduction" (
Esther Friesner
Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman ( Friesner; born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is also a poet and playwright. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themselves. ...
)
* "Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus" (
Harry Turtledove
Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He is a student of history and completed his ...
)
* "Chain, Link, Fence" (
Steven Piziks
Steven Harper Piziks is an American author of science fiction.
Piziks writes mostly science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, and film and television series novelizations. He has also written science fiction books with LGBT themes under his pseudonym, ...
)
* "Fool's Gold" (
Elizabeth Moon
Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel ''The Speed of Dark'' won the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award. Pri ...
)
* "In for a Pound" (
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer).
Biography
Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, as ...
)
* "Death Becomes Him" (
Marina Frants
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A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...
) - sequel to "A Bone to Pick" from
the previous volume
* "Straight Arrow" (
Susan Shwartz)
* "Bad Heir Day" (
Rosemary Edghill
Rosemary Edghill (born 1956) is an American writer and editor. Some of her work has appeared under her original name, eluki bes shahar (lower case intentional). Her primary genres are science fiction and fantasy, but she began by writing Regency ...
)
* "Why Do You Think They Call It Middle Earth?" (
Susan Casper)
* "Leg Irons, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe" (
Laura Frankos)
* "Shiftless" (
Josepha Sherman
Josepha Sherman (December 12, 1946 – August 23, 2012) was an American author, folklorist, and anthologist. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel ''The Shining Falcon''.
Works
Series
Buffyverse
*'' Visitors'' (1999) (wi ...
)
* "May/December at the Mall" (
Brian D. Akers)
* "Yo, Baby!" (
Jan Stirling
Jan Stirling (''née'' Graham; born 20 July 1955) is a former Australian women's basketball player and coach.
She played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the 1970s and competed for Australia at the 1975 World Champion ...
)
* "Don't Break the Chain!" (
Jody Lynn Nye
Jody Lynn Nye (born 1957) is an American science fiction writer. She is the author or co-author of approximately forty published novels and more than 100 short stories. She has specialized in science fiction or fantasy action novels and humor. H ...
)
* "Cross CHILDREN Walk" (
Esther Friesner
Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman ( Friesner; born July 16, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. She is also a poet and playwright. She is best known for her humorous style of writing, both in the titles and the works themselves. ...
)
* "...But Comedy is Hard" (
Kate Daniel Kate may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Kate (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname
* Gyula Káté (born 1982), Hungarian amateur boxer
* Lauren Kate (born 1981), American author of ...
)
* "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (
Kevin Andrew Murphy
Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California.
Education
He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California.
Career
He has written ga ...
)
* "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Five Unseemly Sorrows" (
K. D. Wentworth)
* "Miss Underwood and the Mermaid" (
Sarah Zettel)
References
External links
*
1999 anthologies
Fantasy anthologies
Damsels in distress
Feminist short stories
Baen Books books
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