Sword and Sorceress series
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The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 anthologies
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

, and originally published by DAW Books
DAW Books
DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company therefore claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy." The first DAW Book published was...

. As she explained in the foreword to the first volume, she created the anthology to redress the lack of strong female protagonist
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

s in the sub-genre
Genre
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 of sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery
Sword and sorcery is a sub-genre of fantasy and historical fantasy, generally characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent conflicts. An element of romance is often present, as is an element of magic and the supernatural...

. At the time, most female characters
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 in sword and sorcery were little more than stock damsels in distress, or pawns who were distributed at the conclusion of the story as "bad-conduct prizes" (Bradley's term) for the male protagonists. Many of the early sword-and-sorcery works featured attitudes toward women that Bradley considered appalling.

As the Sword and Sorceress series grew in popularity with readers, she began to receive increasing numbers of excellent submissions. As a result, she had to become more selective, and to shorten her reading periods accordingly. For the eighteenth volume, which she was editing at the time of her death, she had enough material for three volumes. After her death, it was decided to take as many as possible of the stories she had tentatively chosen and publish them in three annual volumes, thus extending the series. After volume twenty was published, the publisher decided to extend an invitation for an additional volume under Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

, an editor who had worked with Bradley, with the possibility of additional volumes being published if it became a success.

The Sword and Sorceress series is noteworthy not only for its introduction of strong female protagonists into a sub-genre previously dominated by male characters, but for its financial success. Unlike most anthologies of original fantasy short fiction, they routinely earned out their advance
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s and continued to pay their authors royalties
Royalties
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 for years afterward, often on foreign sales. In addition, many authors who made their first professional sales in the Sword and Sorceress anthologies subsequently enjoyed successful careers as novelists.

In February 2007, the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, which holds her copyrights, negotiated a contract with Norilana Books
Norilana Books
Norilana Books is an independent publishing company, founded in August 2006 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is operated and owned by Vera Nazarian. Norilana publishes reprints of previously published Science Fiction and Fantasy works, including the novels of Modean Moon...

 to publish a new volume and proceed to elicit submissions. The book was published in November 2007, and the editor was 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....

.

Since that time Norilana Books published three more books of the series which were also edited by Elisabeth Waters.

Sword and Sorceress I

1984. ISBN 978-0-88677-359-5 (USA edition)
1986. ISBN 978-0-87997-928-7 (USA edition)
1988. ISBN 978-0-7472-3105-9 (UK edition)

  • The Heroic Image of Women: Woman as Wizard and Warrior — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • The Garnet and the Glory — Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr, born July 25, 1944, is an American author of fantasy, romances, mysteries, and non-fiction. She is best known for her "Frostflower & Thorn" series and Matter of Britain works.-Life and family:...

  • Severed Heads — Glen Cook
    Glen Cook
    Glen Cook is a contemporary American science fiction and fantasy author, best known for his fantasy series, The Black Company. Cook currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri.-Biography:...

  • Taking Heart — Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns is a science fiction and fantasy author. In short fiction he is most associated with Analog Science Fiction and Fact and has won their "Anlab" readers poll four times. He has also won the Compton Crook Award and in 2000 was nominated for the Philip K...

  • The Rending Dark — Emma Bull
    Emma Bull
    Emma Bull is a science fiction and fantasy author whose best-known novel is War for the Oaks, one of the pioneering works of urban fantasy. She has participated in Terri Windling's Borderland shared universe, which is the setting of her 1994 novel Finder...

  • Gimmile's Songs — Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...

  • The Valley of the Troll — Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and folk musician. He is also the chief book critic for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction....

  • Imperatrix — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Blood of Sorcery — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • With Four Lean Hounds — Pat Murphy
  • House in the Forest — Anodea Judith
    Anodea Judith
    Anodea Judith is an American author, therapist, public speaker and expert on the Chakra system, bodymind , somatic therapy, and Yoga...

  • Sword of Yraine — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Daton and the Dead Things — Michael Ward
    Michael Ward
    Michael John Ward was a British Labour Party politician.- Background :Ward was educated at Royal Liberty Grammar School, Romford and Manchester University. He became a local government advisor and director of a public relations firm. He was elected to Romford Borough Council in 1958, joining the...

  • Gate of the Damned — Janet Fox
    Janet Fox (author)
    Janet Kaye Fox was an American fantasy and horror writer, poet, teacher, and founder-editor-publisher of the now-defunct Scavenger's Newsletter...

  • Child of Orcus — Robin W. Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He is a past president of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . He was South-Central Regional Director for SFWA nine years. He has also hosted three of SFWA's Nebula Awards weekends...

  • Things Come in Threes — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...


Sword and Sorceress II

1985. ISBN 978-0-88677-041-9 (USA Edition)
1986. ISBN 978-0-88677-360-1 (USA Edition)
1988. ISBN 978-0-7472-3106-6 (UK Edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • A Night at Two Inns — Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr, born July 25, 1944, is an American author of fantasy, romances, mysteries, and non-fiction. She is best known for her "Frostflower & Thorn" series and Matter of Britain works.-Life and family:...

  • The Red Guild — Rachel Pollack
    Rachel Pollack
    Rachel Pollack is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot...

  • Shadow Wood — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Unicorn's Blood — Bruce D. Arthurs
  • The Unshadowed Land — C. J. Cherryh
    C. J. Cherryh
    Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...

  • Shimenege's Mask — Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...

  • The Black Tower — Stephen Burns
    Stephen Burns
    Stephen Burns is an American trumpet virtuoso, composer, and conductor. The New York Times said of his playing, "Burns uses his instrument with the lightness and flexibility of a singer in operatic arias...

  • The Lady and the Tiger — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • Fireweb — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Cold Blows the Wind — Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and folk musician. He is also the chief book critic for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction....

  • Sword of the Mother — Dana Kramer-Rolls
  • Hunger — Russ Garrison
  • On First Looking into Bradley's Guidelines — Elizabeth Thompson
    Elizabeth Thompson
    Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition...

  • The Chosen Maiden — Raul Reyes
  • Red Pearls — Richard Corwin
  • Wound on the Moon — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

     (within the anthology this is titled The Wound in the Moon)

Sword and Sorceress III

1986. ISBN 978-0-88677-141-6 (USA edition)
1986. ISBN 978-0-88677-302-1 (USA edition)
1988. ISBN 978-0-7472-3107-3 (UK edition)

  • The Evolution of Women's Fantasy — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Dragon-Amber — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Enter the Wolf — A. D. Overstreet
  • Valley of the Shadow — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • The Song and the Flute — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Journeytime — Dana Kramer-Rolls
  • Orpheus — Mary Frances Zambreno
  • Scarlet Eyes — Millea Kenin
  • The River of Tears — Anodea Judith
    Anodea Judith
    Anodea Judith is an American author, therapist, public speaker and expert on the Chakra system, bodymind , somatic therapy, and Yoga...

  • Fresh Blood — Polly B. Johnson
  • The Mist on the Moor — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Bargains — 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:...

  • A Woman's Privilege — 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....

  • Talla — J. Edwin Andrews
  • Tupilak — Terry Tafoya
  • Sword-Sworn — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • A Tale from Hendry's Mill — Melissa Carpenter
  • S.A.R. — Patricia B. Cirone
  • More's the Pity — L. D. Woeltjen
  • Marwe's Forest — Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders
    Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders is an African American author and journalist currently living in Canada. During his long career, he has written everything from novels both fiction and non-fiction, to screenplays and radio plays.- Background :Saunders was born in Elizabeth,...

  • The Hunters — Mavis J. Andrews

Sword and Sorceress IV

1987. ISBN 978-0-88677-210-9 (USA edition)
1989. ISBN 978-0-88677-412-7 (USA edition)
1989. ISBN 978-0-7472-3364-0 (UK edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • A Tale of Heroes — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • The Woodland of Zarad-Thra — Robin W. Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He is a past president of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . He was South-Central Regional Director for SFWA nine years. He has also hosted three of SFWA's Nebula Awards weekends...

  • The Weeping Oak — Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and folk musician. He is also the chief book critic for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction....

  • Gullrider — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Blood Dancer — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Kayli's Fire — Paula Helm Murray
  • The Ring of Lifari — 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 ...

  • Rite of Passage — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • The Eyes of the Gods — Richard Corwin
  • Fate and the Dreamer — Millea Kenin
  • The Noonday Witch — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Redeemer's Riddle — Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns is a science fiction and fantasy author. In short fiction he is most associated with Analog Science Fiction and Fact and has won their "Anlab" readers poll four times. He has also won the Compton Crook Award and in 2000 was nominated for the Philip K...

  • The Tree-Wife of Arketh — Syn Ferguson
  • Spell of Binding — Richard Cornell
    Richard Cornell
    Richard Cornell was an English Quaker ironmaster and resident of Long Island who is generally considered the first European settler on the Rockaway Peninsula in the present-day Borough of Queens, New York City...

  • Storm God — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Die Like a Man — L. D. Woeltjen
  • Death and the Ugly Woman — Bruce D. Arthurs
  • Bloodstones — Deborah M. Vogel

Sword and Sorceress V

1988. ISBN 978-0-88677-288-8 (USA edition)
1989. ISBN 978-0-7472-3389-3 (UK edition)

  • Introduction or Something — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Sorcerer's Pet — Margaret L. Carter
  • Into the Green — Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint
    Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and folk musician. He is also the chief book critic for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction....

  • Eyes of the Laemi — Janet Fox
    Janet Fox (author)
    Janet Kaye Fox was an American fantasy and horror writer, poet, teacher, and founder-editor-publisher of the now-defunct Scavenger's Newsletter...

  • Jewels — Linda Gordon
    Linda Gordon
    -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History....

  • Dance of the Healer — M. R. Hildebrand
  • One Night at the Inn — Millea Kenin
  • Keys — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Drum Duel — Gerald Perkins
  • The Eye of Toyur — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Peet's Bride — Dana Kramer-Rolls
  • Warrior's Way — A. D. Overstreet
  • Spoils of War — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • Cholin of Carnel — B. A. Rolls
  • Rite of Vengeance — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Bloodstone — Mary Frances Zambreno
  • Sword Singer — Laura J. Underwood
  • Stormbringer — Steve Tymon
  • Sorceress of the Gulls — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Runaways — 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 Golden Egg — Morning Glory Zell
  • Revised Standard Virgin — Rick Cook
    Rick Cook
    Rick Cook is a light fantasy author from the United States, best known for his Wizardry series of books. His writing includes many jokes that are hard to appreciate without having a background in systems-level programming, though the books themselves can easily be enjoyed by readers without such a...

  • Dragon Lovers — Cynthia Drolet

Sword and Sorceress VI

1990. ISBN 978-0-88677-423-3 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Equona's Mare — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • The Hand of Fatima — Shariann Lewitt
    Shariann Lewitt
    Shariann Lewitt is an American author, specializing in science fiction. She is currently a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.- Publications :* First and Final Rites...

  • Commencement — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • A Lesser of Evils — Morning Glory Zell
  • And Sáavüld Danced... — Kier Neustaedter
  • Stone of Light — Linda Gordon
    Linda Gordon
    -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History....

  • Change of Command — Nancy Jane Moore
  • The Starry King — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Mirror Image — Nina Boal
  • Sleeping Dogs — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • Shadowlands — 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....

  • The Making of a Legend — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Burnt Offerings — Mary Fenoglio
  • Ratsbane — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Wolf Hunt — Bobbi Miller
  • Pearl — Carl Thelen
  • Name of the Demoness — Jessie D. Eaker
  • Hands — Lois Tilton
    Lois Tilton
    Lois Tilton is a science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and horror writer. She won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in the short form category for her story "Pericles the Tyrant" in 2006. In 2005, her story, "The Gladiator's War" was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette...

  • Wolfrunner — Mary E. Choo
  • Until We Meet Again — J. A. Brebner
  • Black Wolf — Gemma Tarlach

Sword and Sorceress VII

1990. ISBN 978-0-88677-457-8 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • At the Tolling of Midnight — Stephanie Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • The Buddy System — Laura Thurston
  • The Cloud of Evil — Mark Tompkins
    Mark Tompkins
    Mark Tompkins is a British horse racer and trainer. He is currently the chairman of the Newmarket Trainers Federation. He worked as an assistant for the trainers Walter Wharton and Ryan Jarvis before working he began training independently. He has been a trainer at the Flint Cottage Stables for the...

  • Heart of the Matter — Rowena A. Bathgate
  • A Wolf in the Fold — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • A Thing of Love — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • The Sword Slave — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Festival Gatherers — Diann Partridge
  • The Talisman — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Widow — Kathleen A. Varnado
  • Just Desserts — Elizabeth McCoy
  • Mending Wounds — Gary Jonas
  • St. George and the Dragon — Nancy Jane Moore
  • Her Father's Daughter — Sue Isle
    Sue Isle
    Sue Isle is the author of the Young Adult literature Fantasy novel Scale Of Dragon, Tooth Of Wolf and nonfiction children's book 'Wolf Children'....

  • Winterkill — Laurell K. Hamilton
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...

  • Staying Behind — Jessie D. Eaker
  • Hawk's Hill — Gary Herring
  • Waterwise — Mary Frey
  • The Second Song — I. F. Cole
  • The Thorny Path to Wizardry — Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...

  • Grim Calling — Patricia B. Cirone
  • Winter's Daughter — Diane Burrell
  • The Bridge Over Darikill Fel — Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns
    Stephen L. Burns is a science fiction and fantasy author. In short fiction he is most associated with Analog Science Fiction and Fact and has won their "Anlab" readers poll four times. He has also won the Compton Crook Award and in 2000 was nominated for the Philip K...

  • Warrior's Oath — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • Lost Souls — Alison Brooks

Sword and Sorceress VIII

1991. ISBN 978-0-88677-486-8 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Beauty and His Beast — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Retirement Plan — Margaret Howes
  • The Opal Skull — Cynthia Ward
  • Edyth Among the Trolls — Lois Tilton
    Lois Tilton
    Lois Tilton is a science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and horror writer. She won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in the short form category for her story "Pericles the Tyrant" in 2006. In 2005, her story, "The Gladiator's War" was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette...

  • Out of the Frying Pan — 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....

  • Trading Swords — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • East of the Dawn — Jere Dunham
  • Stained Glass — Linda Gordon
    Linda Gordon
    -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History....

  • The Price of the Wind — 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 ...

  • Spellbinder — 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...

  • Shards of Crystal — Stephanie Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • Song of the Dragon — Andrea Pelleschi
  • A Throw of the Dice — Nancy L. Pine
  • Heart's Desires — Walter L. Kleine
  • Ytarra's Mirror — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Kayli Kidnapped — Paula Helm Murray
  • Fair Play — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • She Who Shields — Gary W. Herring
  • Marayd's Escape — Rima Saret
  • Geese — Laurell K. Hamilton
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American fantasy and romance writer. She is the author of two series of stories. Hamilton is known for her New York Times-bestselling Anita Blake series, featuring a professional zombie raiser/supernatural consultant for the police as the protagonist in a world where...

  • Wings of Fire — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Masks — Deborah Burros

Sword and Sorceress IX

1992. ISBN 978-0-88677-509-4 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Slave to the Sword — Tanya Beaty
  • Shadows Do Not Bleed — Bruce D. Arthurs
  • Beastly! — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • Piper — Susan Hanniford Crowley
  • Stopthrust — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Elynne Dragonchild — Phil Brucato
    Phil Brucato
    "Satyr" Phil Brucato is an American writer and game designer. He is best known for his work with White Wolf, Inc., including role-playing games such as Mage: The Ascension, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade...

  • Freeing Souls — Lisa Deason
  • Blademistress — Jessie D. Eaker
  • Sorcerers' Gate — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • The Birthday Gift — 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....

  • Tangled Webs — Laura J. Underwood
  • Winterwood — Stephanie D. Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • Red Wings — 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 ...

  • Above the Ground — Eric Haines
  • On a Night Like Any Other — Mark Tompkins
    Mark Tompkins
    Mark Tompkins is a British horse racer and trainer. He is currently the chairman of the Newmarket Trainers Federation. He worked as an assistant for the trainers Walter Wharton and Ryan Jarvis before working he began training independently. He has been a trainer at the Flint Cottage Stables for the...

  • A Woman's Weapon — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Behind the Waterfall — Mary Frey
  • Hoard — 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...

  • Queen of the Dead — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • The Flower that Does Not Wither — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • To Have and to Hold — Linda Gordon
    Linda Gordon
    -Life:She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from Yale University with an MA and PhD.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.She teaches at New York University, and is Florence Kelley Professor of History....

  • The Catalyst — Lee Ann Martins
  • Breaking Walls — Leslie Ann Miller
  • The Enchanted Frog — Cynthia L. Ward
  • The Price of the Gods — Roxana Pierson
  • Tiger's Eye — Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook...


Sword and Sorceress X

1993. ISBN 978-0-88677-552-0 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Lorelei — Tina Good
  • Falcon's Shadow — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • The Proper Balance — Robyn McGrew
  • The Gift of Minerva — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Friendly Fire — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

  • Heart in a Box — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • Dance of Death — Donna Bocian Currie
  • Earth, Air, Fire, and Water — Kirsten M. Corby
  • Fealty — Kati Dougherty
  • Hunt for the Queen's Beast — J. M. Cressy
  • Robes — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • Bonds of Light — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Night, Who Creeps Through Keyholes — Francesca Myman
  • Oaths — Leslie Ann Miller
  • Double Vision — Lucas K. Law
  • The Phoenix Medallion — Diann Partridge
  • A Run in the Forest — David A. Pillard
  • Old Age and Treachery ... — Nancy L. Pine
  • In Sheep's Clothing — Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...

  • Her Mother's Sword — Stephanie Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • The Sorceress' Apprentice — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Mage-Sight — Lynne Alisse Witten
  • Ether and the Skeptic — Katy Huth Jones
  • The Limwitch — Rebekah Jensen
  • Smile of the Goddess — Lorina J. Stephens
  • Just Reward — Karen Luk
  • Boys Will Be Girls — Vicki Kirchhoff
  • Taking Shape — Lisa Deason
  • Justice Is Mine — Carolee J. Edwards

Sword and Sorceress XI

1994. ISBN 978-0-88677-614-5 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Call the Wild Horses — Bunnie Bessell
  • Keepsake — Lynn Michals
  • Spirit Singer — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Final Exam — Jessica R. Lerbs
  • The Stratmoor Bear — Charley Pearson
  • Grumble Snoot — Vaughn Heppner
  • Tales — Javonna L. Anderson
  • Maggot's Feast — Jo Clayton
    Jo Clayton
    Jo Clayton was an American fantasy and science fiction author. She wrote 35 novels and many short stories. Her works sold over a million copies....

  • Moonriders — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • Thief, Thief! — Mary Catelli
  • Healing — Hannah Blair
  • Virgin Spring — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • The Haven — Judith Kobylecky
  • Savior — Tom Gallier
  • Bad Luck and Curses — Jessie Eaker
  • The Mistress' Riddle — Karen Luk
  • Rusted Blade — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Images of Love — Larry Tritten
  • A Fate Worse Than Death — Diann Partridge
  • Power Play — Sandra Morrese
  • Fenwitch — Sarah Evans
  • Green-Eyed Monster — Vicki Kirchhoff
  • Snowfire — D. Lopes Heald
  • Ancient Warrior — Stephanie Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • Barbarian Legacy — Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...

  • Mist — Laura J. Underwood
  • Songhealer — Tammi Labrecque
  • The Sow's Ear — Kathy Ann Trueman
  • Poisoned Dreams — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Night-Beast — Cynthia Ward
  • The Gift — Rochelle Marie
  • The Crystal Casket — Kristine Sprunger
  • Ringed In — Mildred Perkins

Sword and Sorceress XII

1995. ISBN 978-0-88677-657-2 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Demon in Glass — John P. Buentello
  • Does the Shoe Fit You Now? — Carolyn J. Bahr
  • A Lynx and a Bastard — Karen Luk
  • Dragonskin Boots — Lisa S. Silverthorne
  • Truth — Lynne Armstrong-Jones
  • Skins — Heather Rose Jones
  • Though the World Is Darkness — Lisa Deason
  • Hemparius the Trader — Valerie Atkinson Gawthrop
  • Chance — Tom Gallier
  • Touched by the Gods — Deborah Millitello
  • Promise to Angel — Stephanie Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • Shadow Harper — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • The Stone Face, the Giant, and the Paradox — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Wormwood — Laura J. Underwood
  • Silverblade — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • A Dragon in Distress — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

     and 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....

  • Stone Spirit — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Garden of Glories — Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Roberson
    Jennifer Mitchell Roberson is an author of fantasy and historical literature.Roberson has lived in Arizona since 1957. She grew up in Phoenix, but in 1999 relocated to Flagstaff. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northern Arizona University in 1982 as an adult student...

  • Stealing the Power — Linda J. Dunn
  • The Lost Path — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • Winter Roses — Patricia Sayre McCoy
  • Amber — Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook...


Sword and Sorceress XIII

1996. ISBN 978-0-88677-703-6 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Patience — Jo Clayton
    Jo Clayton
    Jo Clayton was an American fantasy and science fiction author. She wrote 35 novels and many short stories. Her works sold over a million copies....

  • Sun Dancer — Leslie Ann Miller
  • Spider's Offer — Charles M. Saplak
  • More Than One Way — Heather Rose Jones
  • Daelith's Bargain — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • The Spirit Arrow — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Choosing — John P. Buentello
  • Tortoise Weeps — Marella Sands
  • What the Gods Will — Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
  • Double Blind — Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook...

  • Patchwork Magic — P. Andrew Miller
  • Twilight — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Personal Need — Lynn Michals
  • Catriona's Daughters — Andrea J. Horlick
  • The Whisht Hound's Bone — Laura J. Underwood
  • The Werewolf's Final Lesson — Joette M. Rozanski
  • The Curse of Tanit — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Dual — Quinn Weller
  • Spirit Quest — Kathryne Kennedy
    Kathryne Kennedy
    Kathryne Kennedy is an award-winning American paranormal romance and historical fiction writer.-Publishing career:Kennedy's mother published several romances, inspiring her daughter to do the same. Kennedy grew up with a love of fantasy and romance, and eventually decided to combine the two genres...

  • Crow Feathers — Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...

  • Jewel-Bright — Stephanie D. Shaver
    Stephanie Shaver
    -External links:* *...

  • The Comforter — Jean Marie Egger

Sword and Sorceress XIV

1997. ISBN 978-0-88677-741-8 (USA edition)

  • The Bargain — Laura J. Underwood
  • The Impression of Power — Lee Martindale
  • The Naming of Names — Adrienne Martine-Barnes
  • Changelings — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Death Hunt — Raul S. Reyes
  • A Single Soul — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Needle and the Sword — Jessie D. Eaker
  • Small Considerations — Judith Fielder Leggett
  • If You Can't Stand the Heat... — P.E. Cunningham
  • Silver Bands — Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell
    Syne Mitchell is a novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was Murphy’s Gambit which won the Compton Crook...

  • The Hand of a Lady — Anne Cutrell
  • To Have and to Hold — Karen Barnes
  • A Knight On Tower Hill — Kathrina Bood
  • The Longest Night — Lisa S. Silverthorne
  • Blood Moon — Cynthia Ward
  • By the Skin of Her Teeth — Heather Rose Jones
  • Friends in High Places — Christina Krueger
  • The Blade of Unmaking — 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....

  • The Stone-Weaver's Tale — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • The Hollow Dancer — Mary Soon Lee
  • La Faie Suiateih — Lisa Deason
  • Vengeance — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • The Moongate Troll — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • Lifestone — Mary Catelli
  • White Elephants — Christopher Kempke
  • Traveler's Aide — Kathleen Thompson
    Kathleen Thompson
    Kathleen Thompson is an American feminist, writer, and activist. She was first known for co-authoring, with Andra Medea, the feminist classic Against Rape , the book that broke the silence about rape not only in the United States, but around the world...

  • Afterword: The Last Word — Rachel E. Holmen

Sword and Sorceress XV

1998. ISBN 978-0-88677-768-5 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • With a Warrior's Soul — John P. Buentello
  • Perseverance — Deborah Burros
  • Where there is Smoke — Mary Catelli
  • Unbinding Spell — Andrea Chodan
  • Cecropia — Susan Hanniford Crowley
  • To Live Forever — Jessie D. Eaker
  • Queen's Anvil — Sarah Lyons
  • The Sick Rose — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Skin-Deep — Heather Rose Jones
  • One Last Dragon, One Last Time — Cath McBride
  • Under Her Wing — Devon Monk
    Devon Monk
    Devon Monk is an American writer of urban fantasy novels. She has also published over 50 short stories in fantasy, science fiction, horror, humor, and young adult magazines and anthologies...

  • Shimmering Scythe — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Spring Snow — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Oaths — Lynn Morgan Rosser
  • Something Precious — Carol Tompkins
  • All These Days — Peter Trachtenberg
    Peter Trachtenberg
    -Life:He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA.He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh....

  • His Heart of Stone — Laura J. Underwood
  • A Matter of Names — Cynthia Ward
  • The Dragon's Horde — 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....

     and Raul S. Reyes
  • The Phoenix Blade — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Smell of Magic — Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury
  • Seal-Woman's Power — Paul Edwin Zimmer
    Paul Edwin Zimmer
    Paul Edwin Zimmer , was a noted poet and author. He was also an accomplished swordsman and founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism...


Sword and Sorceress XVI

1999. ISBN 978-0-88677-843-9 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • The Kappa's Gift — Fujiko
    Fujiko
    Fujiko is a Japanese feminine given name, usually derived from 藤 , which means "Wisteria", and the suffix 子 , which means "child" or "child of".Fujiko may refer to:- People :...

  • The Changeless Room — Charlotte Carlson
  • Isabelle and the Siren — Mary Catelli
  • Dragon's Tear — Sonya Fedotowsky
  • A Sister's Blood — Patricia B. Cirone
  • Changed — Lisa Deason
  • The Power to Change the Shape of the Land — Dayle A. Dermatis
  • The Frog Prince — Linda J. Dunn
  • Honey from the Rock — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • The Will of the Wind — Christina Krueger
  • Moonlight on Water — Carol E. Leever
  • Nine Springs — Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch
  • Mistweaver — Terry McGarry
  • Waking the Stone Maiden — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • City of No-Sleep — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Daughter of the Bear — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • The Wishing Stones — Lisa S. Silverthorne
  • A Fool's Game — Selina Rosen
  • The Anvil of Her Pride — Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel
    Lawrence Schimel is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, translator, and anthologist whose work frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes, and with Jewish themes. He was born in New York, and received his B.A. in Literature from Yale University. Schimel is a member of the National...

  • The Dancing Men of Ballyben — Laura J. Underwood
  • Salt & Sorcery — 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....

     and Michael Spence
  • Weaving Spells — Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...

  • Enaree, An Azkhantian Tale — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Day They Ran Out of Princesses — Gail Sosinsky Wickman
  • Taking Flight — Susan Wolven
  • The Vision that Appeared — Katherine L. Rogers

Sword and Sorceress XVII

2000. ISBN 978-0-88677-891-0 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...

  • Memories of the Sea — Dave Coleman-Reese
  • Free Passage — Mary Catelli
  • The Conjuror's Light — Lisa Campos
  • My Sister's Song — T. Borregaard
  • The Summons — Bunnie Bessell
  • Luz — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • Caelqua's Spring — Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian
    Vera Nazarian is an Armenian-Russian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and other "wonder fiction" including Mythpunk, an artist, and the publisher of Norilana Books...

  • Deep as Rivers — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • Weapons at War — Charles Richard Laing
  • Hell Hath No Fury ... — Lee Martindale
  • An Exchange of Favors — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Price of the Sword — Kim Fryer
  • Demon Calling — ElizaBeth Gilligan
    Elizabeth Gilligan
    Elizabeth Gilligan is a fantasy author who lives in San Francisco, California. Her short story Iron Joan was on the preliminary Nebula Award ballot in 2003...

  • Nor Iron Bars a Cage — Deborah Wheeler
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth — Carrie Vaughn
    Carrie Vaughn
    Carrie Vaughn is an American author who writes the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. She has published more than 50 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as short story anthologies and internet magazines...

  • Shadow Soul — Laura J. Underwood
  • Memories Traced in Snow — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Valkyrie — Jenn Reese
  • Soul Dance — Lisa S. Silverthorne
  • Lady of Flame — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • The Tears of the Moon — Cynthia Ward

Sword and Sorceress XVIII

2001. ISBN 978-0-88677-996-2 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — 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....

  • A Passage of Power — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Lessons Learned — Kati Dougherty-Carthum
  • Kendat's Ax — Jan Combs
  • The Tower of Song — Howard Holman
  • The Needed Stone — Denise Lopes Heald
  • Armageddon — Lisa S. Silverthorne
  • The Land of Graves — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Light — Susan Urbanek Linville
  • In the Sacred Places of the Earth — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • The Glass Sword — Richard Corwin
  • Bed of Roses — 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....

  • Sword of Peace — Lucy Cohen Schmeidler
  • The Fall of the Kingdom — Mary Soon Lee
  • Arms and the Woman — Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Lawrence Watt-Evans
    Lawrence Watt-Evans is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans...

  • The Stone Wives — Michael Chesley Johnson
  • Tiger's Eye — India Edghill
  • Raven-wings on the Snow — Pauline J. Alama
  • Little Rogue Riding Hood — 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...

  • The Queen in Yellow — Gerald Perkins
  • Magic Threads — Pete D. Manison

Sword and Sorceress XIX

2002. ISBN 978-0-7564-0049-1 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — 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....

  • The Curse of Ardal Glen — Laura J. Underwood
  • When the King is Weak — Barbara E. Tarbox
  • The Sign of the Boar — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • A Matter of Focus — Penny Buchanan
  • Inner Sight — Susan Wolven
  • Familiars — Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, cartoonist, and reviewer. He holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, and has hosted the Darkling Eclectica, a radio program originally on Saturday mornings, now on Sunday afternoons, on KUCI for more...

  • Ordeal — Robyn McGrew
  • Grain — Esther M. Friesner
  • Gifts of the Kami — Carol E. Leever
  • One in Ten Thousand — Aimee Kratts
  • Lord of the Earth — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Lady of Light — Jennifer Ashley
  • All Too Familiar — P. Andrew Miller
  • Artistic License — Deborah Burros
  • Earth, Wind and Water — Bob Dennis
  • Fire for the Senjen Tiger — Stephen Crane Davidson
  • Fighting Spirit — Karen Magon
  • Pride, Prejudice and Paranoia — Michael Spence
  • A Simple Spell — Marilyn A. Racette
  • Sword of Queens — Bunnie Bessel (sic—all three occurrences in this book spell it "Bessel")
  • Better Seen than Heard — Emily C. A. Snyder
    Emily C. A. Snyder
    Emily C. A. Snyder is an American novelist, playwright and director.She attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, for her undergraduate degree where she studied theatre and literature. In 2009, she received her masters in Theatre Education from Emerson College in Boston, MA...

  • Openings — Meg Heydt
  • A Little Magic — P. E. Cunningham
  • Eloma's Second Career — Lorie Calkins
  • Sylvia — A. Hall

Sword and Sorceress XX

2003. ISBN 978-0-7564-0142-9 (USA edition)

  • Introduction — 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....

     and Ann Sharp
  • Bread and Arrows — Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Mermaid Offerings — Linda J. Dunn
  • Blood Will Tell — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Mairi's Wine — Mara Grey
  • The Mask of Medusa's Daughter — Kathryn J. Brown
  • The Sorcerer of Rasston — Patricia Duffy Novak
  • Legacy — Lisa Deason
  • The Last Swan Princess — Patricia Sayre McCoy
  • Swordtongue — Anne Cutrell
  • Leaves of Iron — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • The Challenge — Richard Calantropio
  • Celtic Beauty — Winifred Phillips
    Winifred Phillips
    Winifred Phillips is an American music composer for video games and radio, a published fantasy author, and a radio producer and actress.-Video games:...

  • Late Blooming — Margaret L. Carter
  • Swords for Teeth, Mirrors for Eyes — Charles M. Saplak
  • Shen's Daughter — Mary Soon Lee
  • The Robber Girl, the Strangers, and Ole Lukoie — Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr
    Phyllis Ann Karr, born July 25, 1944, is an American author of fantasy, romances, mysteries, and non-fiction. She is best known for her "Frostflower & Thorn" series and Matter of Britain works.-Life and family:...

  • Too in the Morning — George Barr
    George Barr
    George Barr may refer to:*George Barr , science fiction artist*George Barr , soccer player-See also:*George Barr McCutcheon, American novelist and playwright...

  • The Song of the Stones — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Homily — The Rev. C. Robbins Clark

Sword and Sorceress XXI

2004. ISBN 978-0-7564-0195-5 (USA edition). Edited by Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson
Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

.

  • Introduction — Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson
    Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...

  • Sword and Sorceress — Jennifer G. Tifft
  • A Kind of Redemption — John P. Buentello
  • Lostland — 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...

  • Multiple Choice — Leslie Fish
    Leslie Fish
    Leslie Fish is a filk musician, author, and anarchist political activist.-Music:Along with The DeHorn Crew, in 1976 she created the first commercial filk recording, Folk Songs for Folk Who Ain't Even Been Yet...

  • Child's Play — Esther M. Friesner
  • Journey's End — Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Dorothy J. Heydt is a U.S. author of science fiction and fantasy. She lives on the U.S. West Coast and is an active participant in the Usenet newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom, and in science fiction fandom in general. She is the originator of the Eight Deadly Words, and other...

  • Spell of the Sparrow — Jim C. Hines
    Jim C. Hines
    Jim C. Hines is an American fantasy writer. He was a first-place winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award in 1998 with his story "Blade of the Bunny". He is the author of the Goblin Quest fantasy trilogy, comprising Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War. He also edited the...

  • The Skin Trade — Heather Rose Jones
  • Dawn and Dusk — Dana Kramer-Rolls
  • Oulu — Aimee Kratts
  • Kin — Naomi Kritzer
  • Sun Thief — K. A. Laity
    K. A. Laity
    K.A. Laity, Ph.D. is a Finnish-American medievalist and award-winning author, noted for the novel , as well as numerous short stories, plays, popular journalism and scholarly essays.-Career overview:...

  • The Woman's Place — Susan Urbanek Linville
  • Rose in Winter — Marie M. Loughin
  • Plowshares — Rebecca Maines
  • Necessity and the Mother — Lee Martindale
  • Kazhe's Blade — Terry McGarry
  • Parri's Blade — Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin
    Cynthia McQuillin was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area...

  • Ursa — Jenn Reese
  • Love Potion #8½ — Marilyn A. Racette
  • Favor of the Goddess — Lynn Morgan Rosser
  • Step By Step — Catherine Soto
  • Red Caramae — Kit Wesler

Sword and Sorceress XXII

2007. ISBN 978-1-934648-15-5 (USA edition). Edited 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....

.
2007. ISBN 978-1-934169-90-2 (USA edition). Edited 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....

.

  • Edra's Arrow — Esther M. Friesner
  • A Nose for Trouble — Patricia B. Cirone
  • Night Watches — Catherine Soto
  • Vanishing Village — Margaret L. Carter
  • Pearl of Fire — Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Ironwood Box — Kimberly L. Maughan
  • Bearing Shadows — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Black Ghost, Red Ghost — Jonathan Moeller
  • The Decisive Princess — Catherine Mintz
  • Child of the Father — Alanna Morland
  • Child of Ice, Child of Flame — Marian Allen
    Marian Allen
    Marian Allen was a British writer, the author of the moving poem now known as "The Wind on the Downs" published in a small 63-page book of poems of the same name...

  • Skin and Bones — Heather Rose Jones
  • Crosswort Puzzle — Michael Spence and 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....

  • Fairy Debt — T. Borregaard
  • Tontine — Robert E. Vardeman
    Robert E. Vardeman
    Robert Edward Vardeman is an American science fiction fan and writer. He got his start in writing by writing for science fiction fanzines, and was nominated for the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Vardeman is one of the founders of Bubonicon, a science fiction convention in Albuquerque, New...

  • The Menagerie — Sarah Dozier

Sword and Sorceress XXIII

2008. ISBN 978-1-934648-78-0 (USA edition). Edited 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....

.

  • Daughters of Brightshield — Pauline J. Alama
  • Undivided — Marian Allen
    Marian Allen
    Marian Allen was a British writer, the author of the moving poem now known as "The Wind on the Downs" published in a small 63-page book of poems of the same name...

  • It's All in the Making — Patricia B. Cirone
  • Shalott's Inn — Leah Cypess
  • Wolf Maiden — Linda L. Donahue
  • Polish on, Polish off: A Dragon Tale — Tom Inister
  • Scam Artistry — Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes Lackey
    Mercedes "Misty" Lackey is a best-selling American author of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar...

     and 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....

  • The Vessel — Gerri Leen
  • Fairest Of Them All — Melissa Mead
  • Blood Moon — Catherine Mintz
  • Stolen Ghosts — Jonathan Moeller
  • Black Magic — Resa Nelson
  • The Frog's Princess — Kristin Noone
  • Squirrel Errant — Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, cartoonist, and reviewer. He holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, and has hosted the Darkling Eclectica, a radio program originally on Saturday mornings, now on Sunday afternoons, on KUCI for more...

  • Remembering — Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • A Morsel for the Plague Queen — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Hope for the Dawn — Catherine Soto
  • Daughter of Heaven — Michael Spence and 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....

  • Deermouse — 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...


Sword and Sorceress XXIV

2009. ISBN 978-1-60762-048-8 (USA edition). Edited 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....

.

  • Introduction — 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....

  • The Casket of Brass — Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • Merlin's Clutter — Helen E. Davis
  • Sceptre of the Ungodly — 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....

     and Michael Spence
  • Material Witness — Brenta Blevins
  • Owl Court — K.D. Wentworth
  • Nellandra's Keeper — Teresa Howard
  • Sages and Demons — Catherine Soto
  • The Case of the Haunted City — 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 ...

  • Pax Draconica — Cate McBride
  • Sea-Child — Cynthia Ward
  • Ghost Masks — Jonathan Moeller
  • The Vapors of Crocodile Fen — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Lord Shashensa — Therese Arkenberg
  • Three on a Match — Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, cartoonist, and reviewer. He holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, and has hosted the Darkling Eclectica, a radio program originally on Saturday mornings, now on Sunday afternoons, on KUCI for more...

  • A Curious Case — Annclaire Livoti
  • Soul Walls — Julia H. West
  • Little Red — Melissa Mead

Sword and Sorceress XXV

2010. ISBN 978-1-60762-081-5 (USA edition). Edited 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....

.

  • Introduction — 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....

  • The Sorceress's Apprentice — Pauline J. Alama
  • Killing Stars — Robin Wayne Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey
    Robin Wayne Bailey is an American fantasy and science fiction author. He is a past president of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . He was South-Central Regional Director for SFWA nine years. He has also hosted three of SFWA's Nebula Awards weekends...

  • Mira — Steven Brust
    Steven Brust
    Steven Karl Zoltán Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent. He was a member of the writers' group The Scribblies, which included Emma Bull, Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Nate Bucklin, Kara Dalkey, and Patricia Wrede; he also belongs to the Pre-Joycean...

  • Proving Grounds — Steve Chapman
    Stepan Chapman
    Stepan Chapman is a writer of speculative fiction and fabulation. He might be best known for the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel The Troika....

  • Impossible Quests — Kate Coombs
  • A Wall To Keep The World Out — Helen E. Davis
  • Caden's Death — Amy Griswold
  • Ghost Puppet — Jonathan Moeller
  • Well Enough — Lauren K. Moody
  • Matriculation — Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne
    Michael H. Payne is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, cartoonist, and reviewer. He holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of California, Irvine, and has hosted the Darkling Eclectica, a radio program originally on Saturday mornings, now on Sunday afternoons, on KUCI for more...

  • Fire and Fate — Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross
    Deborah J. Ross , once Deborah Wheeler, is an American published science fiction and fantasy author.- Biography :Ross was born in April 1947 and grew up in California. She has always told stories, even as a very young child. Ross attended Portland State University, graduating in 1973...

  • The Lost and Found Talisman — 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 ...

  • Homecoming — Jonathan Shipley
    Jonathan Shipley (writer)
    Jonathan Shipley Author of nine novels and almost eighty short stories, seventeen of which have been published between 1992 and 2010, with six more—to date—sold and awaiting publication in 2011. In addition to writing, Shipley is also an accomplished musician...

  • The Etherine Road — Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds
    Dave Smeds is an American science fiction writer. To date he has written eleven books and over one hundred short stories.-Novels:*Sinking Ship *Goats *The Law of the Jungle - X-Men series*Piper in the Night...

  • Winter in Khotan — Catherine Soto
  • Inquisition for Blood — 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....

     and Michael Spence
  • Simon's Fish — Barbara Tarbox
  • Pantheon Shift Change — L. M. Townsend-Crow
  • The Sundered Star — 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...

  • Saved by the Soap — Susan Wolven

External links

  • Series listing at SciFan
    SciFan
    SciFan is an online database for fans of science fiction and fantasy books.The site provides detailed bibliographies, linking books together into series' where appropriate and, in turn, grouping series by universe...

  • Review of S&S XXII
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