Chicks in Chainmail


Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore. 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"
  • "Lady of Steel"
  • "And Ladies of the Club"
  • "Exchange Program"
  • "Goddess for a Day"
  • "Armor-Ella"
  • "Career Day"
  • "Armor/Amore"
  • "The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg"
  • "The Growling"
  • "The New Britomart"
  • "On the Road of Silver"
  • "Bra Melting"
  • "The Old Grind"
  • "The Way to a Man's Heart"
  • "Whoops!"
  • "The Guardswoman"
  • "Teacher's Pet"
  • "Were-Wench"
  • "Blood Calls to Blood"
  • "Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD"

Related works

The “Chicks in Chainmail” franchise includes a novel—Mathemagics: A Chicks in Chainmail Novel by Margaret Ball (writer)—and the ongoing series of “Chicks” anthologies edited by Friesner:
  1. Chicks in Chainmail
  2. Did [You Say Chicks?!]
  3. Chicks 'n Chained Males
  4. The Chick Is in the Mail
  5. Turn the Other Chick
  6. Chicks and Balances
Esther Friesner also edited a "Suburban Fantasy" anthology series, similarly focused on female protagonists:
  1. Witch Way to the Mall
  2. Strip Mauled
  3. ''Fangs for the Mammaries''