Turn the Other Chick

Turn the Other Chick is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther M. Friesner, with a cover by Mitch Foust. It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in hardcover by Baen Books in November 2004; a paperback edition followed in March 2006. It was the fifth and last of a series of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner. (The first three books were collected as Chicks Ahoy in 2010).

The book collects twenty-two short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction and a section of notes about the authors by Friesner.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Mightier Than the Sword" (John G. Hemry)
• "A Late Symmer Night's Battle" (Laura Frankos)
• "Psyched Up" (Michael D. Turner)
• "Branded" (Jan Stirling)
• "The Girl's Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord" (Cassandra Claire)
• "She Stuffs to Conquer" (Yvonne Coats)
• "The Gypsy Queen" (Catherine H. Shaffer)
• "Over the Hill" (Jim C. Hines)
• "A Sword Called Rhonda" (D. S. Moen)
• "Giants in the Earth" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Rituals for a New God" (Wen Spencer)
• "I Look Good" (Selina Rosen)
• "Combat Shopping" (Lee Martindale)
• "Battle Ready" (J. Ardian Lee)
• "A Woman's Armor" (Lesley McBain)
• "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Hall of the Puppet King" (K. D. Wentworth)
• "Princess Injera Versus the Spanakopita of Doom" (Robin Wayne Bailey)
• "Brunhilde's Bra" (Laura J. Underwood)
• "Smoke and Mirrors" (Steven Piziks)
• "The Truth About the Gotterdammerung" (Eric Flint)
• "Defender of the Small" (Jody Lynn Nye)
• "Of Mice and Chicks" (Harry Turtledove)
• "About the Authors" (Esther M. Friesner)

External links

• Turn the Other Chick publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database