Chicks in Chainmail


Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore. 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 by Margaret Ball—and the ongoing series of “Chicks” anthologies edited by Friesner:
  1. Chicks in Chainmail
  2. Did You Say Chicks?!
  3. Chicks 'n Chained Males
  4. The Chick is in the Mail
  5. Turn the Other Chick
  6. Chicks and Balances
Esther Friesner also edited a “Suburban Fantasy” anthology series, similarly focused on female protagonists:
  1. Witch Way to the Mall
  2. Strip Mauled
  3. Fangs for the Mammaries