Contents

• Introduction by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
  
• "Blood Calls to Blood" by Elisabeth Waters
  Elisabeth Waters
  Elisabeth Waters is an American fantasy author.She won the Gryphon award in 1989 for her first novel Changing Fate. Since then, she has published a large number of short stories, some in the anthology series Sword and Sorceress, which she now edits....
  
  
• "Armor/Amore" by David Vierling
• "Armor-Ella" by Holly Lisle
  Holly Lisle
  Holly Lisle is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She is also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love And Money, the Forward Motion Writers' Community web site, and her...
  
  
• "And Ladies of the Club
  And Ladies of the Club
  "...And Ladies of the Club" is a novel, written by Helen Hooven Santmyer, about a group of women in the fictional town of Waynesboro, Ohio who begin a study club, which evolves through the years into a significant community service organization in the town.The book, which looks at the club as it...
  
  " by Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
  
   (Ladies' Aid & Armor Society 1)
• "Bra Melting" by Janni Lee Simner
• "Career Day
  Career Day
  Career Day often refers to a day in school where students learn about different careers and vocations. It may specifically refer to:* Career Day * Career Day...
  
  " by Margaret Ball
  Margaret Ball
  Blessed Margaret Ball was born Margaret Birmingham near Skryne in County Meath, and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle. She was the wife of the Mayor of Dublin in 1553. She was beatified in 1992.-Early life:...
  
   (Riva Konneva)
• "Exchange Program" by Susan Shwartz
  Susan Shwartz
  Susan Shwartz is an American author.She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.-Novels:* The Woman of Flowers * Byzantium's Crown...
  
  
• "Goddess for a Day" by Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
  
• "Lady of Steel" by Roger Zelazny
  Roger Zelazny
  Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series...
  
  
• "Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD by George Alec Effinger
  George Alec Effinger
  George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author, born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio.-Writing career:...
  
  
• "On the Road of Silver" by Mark Bourne
• "Teacher's Pet
  Teacher's Pet
  -Film:* Teacher's Pet , a 2004 animated musical based 2000 TV series* Teacher's Pet , a 1958 romantic comedy film* Teacher's Pet , a 1930 two-reel comedy short-Television:...
  
  " by Josepha Sherman
  Josepha Sherman
  Josepha Sherman is an American author. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.-Buffyverse:*Visitors *Deep Water ...
  
  
• "The Growling" by Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
  
  
• "The Guardswoman" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...
  
   (Legends of Ethshar)
• "The New Britomart" by Eluki bes Shahar
  Rosemary Edghill
  Rosemary Edghill is an American writer and editor, who has often used that pseudonym in place of her legal name, eluki bes shahar...
  
  
• "The Old Grind" by Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos is an American author born February 9, 1960. She has written mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories. She has published one mystery novel, Saint Oswald's Niche, which is currently out of print, and The Broadway Musical Quiz Book...
  
  
• "The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg" by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born March 23, 1947 and lives in Port Townsend, Washington. Scarborough won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels...
  
  
• "The Way to a Man's Heart" by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
  
• "Were-Wench" by Jan Stirling (Terion & Feric 1)
• "Whoops!" by Nancy Springer
  Nancy Springer
  Nancy Connor Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award, and she has also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.-Series:Book of the Isle* 1. The White Hart * 2...
  
  

• Introduction by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
  
• About the Authors by Esther Friesner
• "A Big Hand for the Little Lady
  A Big Hand for the Little Lady
  A Big Hand for the Little Lady is a 1966 western film, made by Eden Productions Inc. and released by Warner Bros...
  
  " by Esther Friesner
• "A Bitch in Time" by Doranna Durgin
  Doranna Durgin
  Doranna Durgin is an American author. In 1995 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel Dun Lady's Jess.Durgin's works feature suspense elements and distinctive descriptions of animals and their behavior.-Buffyverse:...
  
   (Lineman 1)
• "A Bone to Pick
  A Bone to Pick
  Published in 1992, A Bone to Pick is the second of eight in the Aurora Teagarden mysteries by Charlaine Harris, best known for her Sookie Stackhouse mysteries on which the popular HBO television show "True Blood" is based....
  
  " by Marina Frants and Keith R. A. DeCandido
  Keith R. A. DeCandido
  Keith Robert Andreassi DeCandido is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and musician, who works on comic books, novels, role-playing games and video games, including numerous media tie-in books for properties such as Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Supernatural,...
  
  
• "A Night with the Girls" by Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
  
• "A Quiet Knight's Reading" by Steven Piziks
  Steven Piziks
  Steven Piziks is an American author of science fiction.Piziks writes mostly military science fiction and film and television series novelisations...
  
  
• "A Young Swordswoman's Garden Primer" by Sarah Zettel
  Sarah Zettel
  Sarah A. Zettel is an American science fiction and fantasy author.She was born in Sacramento, California. Her mother, Gail Beavers, is a retired teacher and social worker; her father, Leonard Francis Zettel, Jr., is a retired engineer and programmer. She obtained a B.A. in Communications from...
  
  
• "Armor Propre" by Jan Stirling and S. M. Stirling
  S. M. Stirling
  Stephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.-Personal:Stirling was born on...
  
   (Terion & Feric 2)
• "Blade Runner
  Blade Runner
  Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
  
  " by K. D. Wentworth
  K. D. Wentworth
  Kathy Diane Wentworth , known as K. D. Wentworth, is a science fiction author. She got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won Field Publications' Teachers as Writers Award in 1991. She currently is the editor for the Writers of the Future Contest...
  
   (Hallah Iron-Thighs)
• "Don't You Want to Be Beautiful?" by Laura Anne Gilman
  Laura Anne Gilman
  Laura Anne Gilman is an American fantasy author.-Biography:Laura Anne Gilman was born in 1967 in suburban New Jersey. She received a Liberal Arts education from the Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and was inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta honors society...
  
  
• "Keeping Up Appearances
  Keeping Up Appearances
  Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. Centred on the life of eccentric, social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket , the sitcom portrays a social hierarchy-ruled British society...
  
  " by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...
  
  
• "La Différence
  La Difference
  La Difference is a Canadian current affairs television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1968.-Premise:This series, hosted by Peter Desbarats and Richard Gwyn, concerned cultural differences between English and French Canada, providing historical context for these distinctions...
  
  " by Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
  
• "Like No Business I Know" by Mark Bourne
• "No Pain, No Gain" by Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
  
   (Ladies' Aid & Armor Society 2)
• "Oh, Sweet Goodnight!" by Christina Briley and Walter Vance Awsten
  Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...
  
  
• "Slue-Foot Sue and the Witch in the Woods" by Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos is an American author born February 9, 1960. She has written mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories. She has published one mystery novel, Saint Oswald's Niche, which is currently out of print, and The Broadway Musical Quiz Book...
  
  
• "Tales from the Slushpile" by Margaret Ball
  Margaret Ball
  Blessed Margaret Ball was born Margaret Birmingham near Skryne in County Meath, and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle. She was the wife of the Mayor of Dublin in 1553. She was beatified in 1992.-Early life:...
  
   (Riva Konneva)
• "The Attack of the Avenging Virgins" by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born March 23, 1947 and lives in Port Townsend, Washington. Scarborough won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels...
  
   (as told by one of the Valiant Vanquished)
• "The Old Fire" by Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
  
  
• "Yes, We Did Say Chicks!" by Adam-Troy Castro
  Adam-Troy Castro
  Adam-Troy Castro is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer living in Miami, FL. He has more than eighty stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker. These stories include four Spider-Man novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy,...
  
  

• Introduction by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
  
• "...But Comedy is Hard" by Kate Daniel
• "Bad Heir Day" by Rosemary Edghill
  Rosemary Edghill
  Rosemary Edghill is an American writer and editor, who has often used that pseudonym in place of her legal name, eluki bes shahar...
  
  
• "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" by Kevin Andrew Murphy
  Kevin Andrew Murphy
  Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California. He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California. He has written gamebooks for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf. He is one of the...
  
  
• "Chain, Link, Fence" by Steven Piziks
  Steven Piziks
  Steven Piziks is an American author of science fiction.Piziks writes mostly military science fiction and film and television series novelisations...
  
  
• "Cross CHILDREN Walk by Esther Friesner
  Esther Friesner
  Esther Mona Friesner-Stutzman, née Friesner is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for her humorous pieces.- Life :...
  
   (Zoli of the Brazen Shield 1)
• "Death Becomes Him by Marina Frants (Vassilisa 2)
• "Don't Break the Chain!" by Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye
  Jody Lynn Nye is an American science fiction writer. She has frequently collaborated as a co-author or the author of a sequel....
  
  
• "Fool's Gold by Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon
  Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award.-Biography:...
  
   (Ladies' Aid & Armor Society 3)
• "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Five Unseemly Sorrows by K. D. Wentworth
  K. D. Wentworth
  Kathy Diane Wentworth , known as K. D. Wentworth, is a science fiction author. She got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won Field Publications' Teachers as Writers Award in 1991. She currently is the editor for the Writers of the Future Contest...
  
  
• "In for a Pound" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans
  Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...
  
  
• "Leg Irons, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe" by Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos
  Laura Frankos is an American author born February 9, 1960. She has written mysteries, fantasy and science fiction stories. She has published one mystery novel, Saint Oswald's Niche, which is currently out of print, and The Broadway Musical Quiz Book...
  
  
• "May/December at the Mall" by Brian D. Akers
• "Miss Underwood and the Mermaid" by Sarah Zettel
  Sarah Zettel
  Sarah A. Zettel is an American science fiction and fantasy author.She was born in Sacramento, California. Her mother, Gail Beavers, is a retired teacher and social worker; her father, Leonard Francis Zettel, Jr., is a retired engineer and programmer. She obtained a B.A. in Communications from...
  
  
• "Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus" by Harry Turtledove
  Harry Turtledove
  Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.- Life :...
  
  
• "Shiftless" by Josepha Sherman
  Josepha Sherman
  Josepha Sherman is an American author. In 1990 she won the Compton Crook Award for the novel The Shining Falcon.-Buffyverse:*Visitors *Deep Water ...
  
  
• "Straight Arrow" by Susan Shwartz
  Susan Shwartz
  Susan Shwartz is an American author.She received her B.A. in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.-Novels:* The Woman of Flowers * Byzantium's Crown...
  
  
• "Why Do You Think They Call It Middle Earth?" by Susan Casper
• "Yo, Baby! by Jan Stirling (Terion & Feric 3)