Sword and Sorceress XIII

by Laura J. Underwood, Marella Sands, Heather Rose Jones, et al.

Book Overview

A continuation of the popular anthology series of contemporary women's fantasy, featuring women wizards and warriors, magic, and adventure, includes original short stories by Diana Paxson, Jo Clayton,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886777038
• ISBN13: 9780886777036
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

MZB gets back into her stride

A couple of the previous volumes in the S & S franchise were more or less disappointing to me, but this outing seems to be closer to the standard set by the earliest ones. It's longer than most of the first 8-10 numbers (22 stories, where they averaged 16-17), and many of the authors who were standards in the former are now, as editor Bradley points out in her introduction, "now working on their own [novel-]writing or even editing," which means they don't have time to contribute short stories to anthologies. But, of course, it's a truism that if you don't try something new you'll never know what you might be missing, and of the contributors unfamiliar to me, quite a few (Leslie Ann Miller, Heather Rose Jones, John P. Buentello, Marella Sands, Kathleen Dalton Woodbury, P. Andrew Miller, Quinn Weller) provided fictions that I found enjoyable. With 11 total pieces marked as worth rereading, this anthology counts as a success by my criterion (you may, of course, find more, or less, of the contents to your liking: every anthology is something of a crapshoot even if the theme is a favorite). On the whole, I'd call it worthy of your time.