Amazons!
Amazons! is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, with a cover and frontispiece by Michael Whelan. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in December 1979, and was the first significant fantasy anthology of works featuring female protagonists by female authors. It received the 1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
The book collects 14 short stories, novelettes and poems by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Salmonson and an essay on additional reading by Salmonson and Susan Wood.Contents
- "Amazons"
- "Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage"
- "The Dreamstone"
- "Wolves of Nakesht"
- "Woman of the White Waste"
- "The Death of Augusta"
- "Morrien's Bitch"
- "Agbewe's Sword"
- "Jane Saint's Travails "
- "The Sorrows of Witches"
- "Falcon Blood"
- "The Rape Patrol"
- "Bones for Dulath"
- "Northern Chess"
- "The Woman Who Loved the Moon"
- "Additional Reading"
