Chicks in Chainmail

{{Short description|1995 anthology of fantasy stories edited by Esther Friesner}} {{Infobox book |  |name = Chicks in Chainmail |image = Chicks in Chainmail.jpg |caption = First edition |editor = Esther Friesner |cover_artist = Larry Elmore |country = United States |language = English |series = Chicks in Chainmail |genre = Fantasy |publisher = Baen Books |release_date = 1995 |media_type = Print (paperback) |pages = 341 pp. |isbn = 0-671-87682-1 |congress = CPB Box no. 1849 vol. 15 |oclc = 33039808 |followed_by = Did You Say Chicks?! }}

'''''Chicks in Chainmail''''' is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther Friesner, with a cover by Larry Elmore.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chicks in Chainmail by Esther Friesner |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/f/esther-m-friesner/chicks-in-chainmail.htm |publisher=Fantastic Fiction}}</ref> 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== * "Introduction" (Esther Friesner) * "Lady of Steel" (Roger Zelazny) * "And Ladies of the Club" (Elizabeth Moon) * "Exchange Program" (Susan Shwartz) * "Goddess for a Day" (Harry Turtledove) * "Armor-Ella" (Holly Lisle) * "Career Day" (Margaret Ball) * "Armor/Amore" (David Vierling) * "The Stone of War and the Nightingale's Egg" (Elizabeth Ann Scarborough) * "The Growling" (Jody Lynn Nye) * "The New Britomart" (Eluki bes Shahar) * "On the Road of Silver" (Mark Bourne) * "Bra Melting" (Janni Lee Simner) * "The Old Grind" (Laura Frankos) * "The Way to a Man's Heart" (Esther Friesner) * "Whoops!" (Nancy Springer) * "The Guardswoman" (Lawrence Watt-Evans) * "Teacher's Pet" (Josepha Sherman) * "Were-Wench" (Jan Stirling) * "Blood Calls to Blood" (Elisabeth Waters) * "Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD" (George Alec Effinger)

==Related works== 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:

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

Esther Friesner also edited a "''Suburban'' Fantasy" anthology series,<ref>{{cite web |title=Witch Way to the Mall |url=https://www.baen.com/witch-way-to-the-mall.html |publisher=Baen Books}}</ref> similarly focused on female protagonists:

# ''Witch Way to the Mall'' (June 2009) {{ISBN|1-4391-3274-7}} # ''Strip Mauled'' (October 2009) {{ISBN|1-4391-3320-4}} # ''Fangs for the Mammaries'' (2010) {{ISBN|1-4391-3392-1}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{ISFDB title|id=33578|title=Chicks in Chainmail}}

Category:1995 anthologies Category:Fantasy anthologies Category:Feminist short stories Category:Baen Books books