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" (Esther 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)

Related works
The “Chicks in Chainmail” franchise includes a novel—Mathemagics: A Chicks in Chainmail Novel (1996) by Margaret Ball—and the ongoing series of “Chicks” anthologies edited by Friesner:


 * 1) Chicks in Chainmail (1995)
 * 2) Did You Say Chicks?! (1998)
 * 3) Chicks 'n Chained Males (1999)
 * 4) The Chick Is in the Mail (2000)
 * 5) Turn the Other Chick (2004)
 * 6) Chicks and Balances (2015)
 * Chicks Ahoy! (2010) omnibus of first three volumes

Esther Friesner also edited a "Suburban Fantasy" anthology series, similarly focused on female protagonists:


 * 1) Witch Way to the Mall (June 2009) ISBN 1-4391-3274-7
 * 2) Strip Mauled (October 2009) ISBN 1-4391-3320-4
 * 3) Fangs for the Mammaries (2010) ISBN 1-4391-3392-1