Chicks 'n Chained Males

Chicks 'n Chained Males

Cover of first edition.
Author	Edited by Esther Friesner, Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist	Larry Elmore
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Chicks in Chainmail
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Baen Books
Publication date	May 1999
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	313 pp.
ISBN	0-671-57814-6
OCLC	41303377
Preceded by	Did You Say Chicks?!
Followed by	The Chick is in the Mail

Chicks 'n Chained Males is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner with the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg, with a cover by Larry Elmore.^[1] It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in May 1999. It was the third of a number of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner.

The book collects 18 short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.

As per the volume's title, most of the stories involve heroic women having to rescue men from captivity, reversing the damsel in distress trope.

Contents[]

• "Introduction" (Esther Friesner)
• "Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus" (Harry Turtledove)
• "Chain, Link, Fence" (Steven Piziks)
• "Fool's Gold" (Elizabeth Moon)
• "In for a Pound" (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
• "Death Becomes Him" () - sequel to "A Bone to Pick" from the previous volume
• "Straight Arrow" (Susan Shwartz)
• "Bad Heir Day" (Rosemary Edghill)
• "Why Do You Think They Call It Middle Earth?" ()
• "Leg Irons, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe" (Laura Frankos)
• "Shiftless" (Josepha Sherman)
• "May/December at the Mall" ()
• "Yo, Baby!" ()
• "Don't Break the Chain!" (Jody Lynn Nye)
• "Cross CHILDREN Walk" (Esther Friesner)
• "...But Comedy is Hard" ()
• "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Kevin Andrew Murphy)
• "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Five Unseemly Sorrows" (K. D. Wentworth)
• "Miss Underwood and the Mermaid" (Sarah Zettel)

References[]

External links[]

• ISFD entry for Chicks 'n Chained Males

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