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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1982

Pages
  
239 pp.

Originally published
  
1982

Preceded by
  
Amazons!

Cover artist
  
Michael Whelan

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

ISBN
  
0-87997-736-1

Author
  
Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Publisher
  
DAW Books

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story

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Amazons II is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, with a cover by Michael Whelan. Following up her earlier anthology Amazons!, it consists like its predecessor volume of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in June 1982.

The book collects twelve short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Salmonson.

Contents

  • "Introduction: Art, History and Amazons" (Jessica Amanda Salmonson)
  • "For a Daughter" (F. M. Busby)
  • "The Battle Crow's Daughter" (Gillian Fitzgerald)
  • "Southern Lights" (Tanith Lee)
  • "Zroya's Trizub" (Gordon Derevanchuk)
  • "The Robber Girl" (Phyllis Ann Karr)
  • "Lady of the Forest End" (Gaèl Baudino)
  • "The Ivory Comb" (Eleanor Arnason)
  • "The Borders of Sabazel" (Lillian Stewart Carl)
  • "Who Courts a Reluctant Maiden" (Ardath Mayhar)
  • "The Soul Slayer" (Lee Killough)
  • "Nightwork" (Jo Clayton)
  • "In the Lost Lands" (George R. R. Martin)

    • References

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