Chicks in Chainmail

Chicks in Chainmail
First edition
EditorEsther Friesner
Cover artistLarry Elmore
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChicks in Chainmail
GenreFantasy
PublisherBaen Books
Publication date
1995
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages341 pp.
ISBN0-671-87682-1
OCLC33039808
LC ClassCPB Box no. 1849 vol. 15
Followed byDid You Say Chicks?! 

Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore.[1] It consists of works featuring female protagonists mostly written by female authors. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in September 1995, with a hardcover edition following from Baen in conjunction with the Science Fiction Book Club in January 1996. It was the first of a number of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner.

The book collects 20 short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.

Contents

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

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

Esther Friesner also edited a "Suburban Fantasy" anthology series,[2] similarly focused on female protagonists:

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

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