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Country United States Series Chicks in Chainmail Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1995 Publisher Baen Books Cover artist Larry El | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1995 Pages 341 pp. Followed by Did You Say Chicks?! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Anthology, Fantasy, Short story Similar Esther Friesner books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chicks in Chainmail is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther M. 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.
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The book collects twenty short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.
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Sequel anthologies
Chicks in Chainmail was followed by Did You Say Chicks?! (1998), Chicks 'n Chained Males (1999), The Chick is in the Mail (2000), Turn the Other Chick (2004), and, after a long delay, Chicks and Balances (2015). An omnibus edition of the first three anthologies was published in 2010 as Chicks Ahoy.