Chicks in Chainmail

Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther M. Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore. It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) 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 twenty short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Esther M. 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)

External links

• Chicks in Chainmail publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database