Amazons! - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (pdf) torrent

Amazons! - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (DAW, 1979). 206 pages.

New scan. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate metadata and pagination, etc.


This is an anthology of sword and sorcery short stories with female heroes. The perspective is refreshingly feminist. I picked this up when I was a kid and loved it; still do. The great Michael Whelan cover image inspired my imagination for many years.

The title is a bit misleading: the focus is not on amazons as such.

Authors include:

Jessica Amanda Salmonson
C. J. Cherryh
Michele Belling
Megan Lindholm
Tanith Lee
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Janrae Frank
T. J. Morgan
Emily Brontë (with Joanna Russ)
Charles R. Saunders
Josephone Saxton
Margaret St. Clair
Andre Norton

description:

Amazons have always been with us in legend and history--and it is the amazons of the imagination we meet in this unique anthology. Here are the writers whose novels have placed them among the leaders in fantasy who have written for this volume original and exciting adventures of women who dare to pick up the sword and go a'venturing.