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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I like short stories. Particularly Sci-Fi/Fantasy short stories. I say that because I want to be clear, my bias is to like this collection. It ultimately was OK, but way too repetitive and sometimes boring. It wasn't the conceit--strong women warrior protagonists--it was the lack of enough creativity to sustain through the length of the book. The other problem is that it is sold as humor and some of the stories are funny or at least have a punch line. Only one made me do anything other than be a little amused. I think this is the part of the editor and marketer rather than the individual stories, but it did affect my enjoyment of the book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesChicks in Chainmail (1-3) ContainsLady of Steel by Roger Zelazny (indirect) And Ladies of the Club by Elizabeth Moon (indirect) Exchange Program by Susan Shwartz (indirect) Goddess For A Day by Harry Turtledove (indirect) Armor-Ella by Holly Lisle (indirect) Career Day by Margaret Ball (indirect) Armor/Amore by David Vierling (indirect) The Growling by Jody Lynn Nye (indirect) The New Britomart [short story] by Eluki Bes Shahar (indirect) On the Road of Silver by Mark Bourne (indirect) Bra Melting by Janni Lee Simner (indirect) The Old Grind by Laura Frankos (indirect) The Way to a Man's Heart [short story] by Esther M. Friesner (indirect) Whoops! by Nancy Springer (indirect) The Guardswoman [short story] by Lawrence Watt-Evans (indirect) Teacher's Pet by Josepha Sherman (indirect) Were-Wench [short story] by Jan Stirling (indirect) Blood Calls to Blood [short story] by Elisabeth Waters (indirect) No Pain, No Gain by Elizabeth Moon (indirect) Slue-Foot Sue and the Witch in the Woods by Laura Frankos (indirect) A Young Swordswoman's Garden Primer by Sarah Zettel (indirect) The Old Fire by Jody Lynn Nye (indirect) Like No Business I Know by Mark Bourne (indirect) A Bone to Pick by Marina Frants (indirect) A Bitch in Time by Doranna Durgin (indirect) Don't You Want to Be Beautiful? by Laura Anne Gilman (indirect) A Night with the Girls by Barbara Hambly (indirect) A Quiet Knight's Reading by Steven Piziks (indirect) Armor Propre by Jan Stirling (indirect) A Big Hand for the Little Lady by Esther M. Friesner (indirect) Blade Runner [short story] by K. D. Wentworth (indirect) Keeping Up Appearances by Lawrence Watt-Evans (indirect) La Difference [short story] by Harry Turtledove (indirect) Tales from the Slushpile by Margaret Ball (indirect) Yes We Did Say Chicks! by Adam-Troy Castro (indirect) Fool's Gold by Elizabeth Moon (indirect) In for a Pound by Lawrence Watt-Evans (indirect) Death Becomes Him by Marina Frants (indirect) Straight Arrow by Susan Shwartz (indirect) Bad Heir Day [short story] by Rosemary Edghill (indirect) Why Do You Think They Call it Middle Earth? by Susan Casper (indirect) Leg Irons the Bitch and the Wardrobe by Laura Frankos (indirect) Shiftless by Josepha Sherman (indirect) May/December at the Mall by Brian Dana Akers (indirect) Yo, Baby! [short story] by Jan Stirling (indirect) Don't Break the Chain! by Jody Lynn Nye (indirect) Cross CHILDREN Walk by Esther M. Friesner (indirect) ...But Comedy Is Hard by Kate Daniel (indirect) Baubles, Bangles and Beads by Kevin Andrew Murphy (indirect) Miss Underwood and the Mermaid by Sarah Zettel (indirect)
The Popular Chicks in Chainmail Series Set New Standards (and Sales Figures) for Humorous Fantasy. Here're the First Three books in One Specially-Priced Omni-Trade Volume. Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-fictionality. You think their swords won't cut, their clubs won't crush? You think they look cute? It's time to take sword-swinging amazons more seriously. Well, maybe not too seriously. After all, the popular Chicks in Chainmail series wasn't known for stark drama and solemn think-pieces. In fact, they made a lot of people laugh. And now the first three books in the series are combined in one attractively-priced Omni-Trade Paperback volume. · Chicks in Chainmail (The look at the lighter side of amazons that started it all.) · Did You Say Chicks? (Smile when you say that, you wimpy noncombatant!) · Chicks 'n Chained Males (Those men just can't take care of themselves, so send in the amazons!) It's all right to have a laugh or two. The swordswomen like a good laugh as much as the next amazon. Just don't let them get the idea that you're laughing at them, instead of with them--if you know what's good for you . . . Stories of fierce female fighters by Harry Turtledove, Roger Zelazny, Elizabeth Moon, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, Lawrence Watt-Evans and more--including Esther Friesner herself. No library descriptions found. |
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