Chicks 'n Chained Males

Chicks 'n Chained Males

Cover of first edition.
Author	Edited by Esther M. Friesner, Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist	Larry Elmore
Language	English
Series	Chicks in Chainmail
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Baen Books
Publication date	1999
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	313 pp.
ISBN	0-671-57814-6
OCLC	41303377
Preceded by	Did You Say Chicks?!
Followed by	The Chick is in the Mail

Chicks 'n Chained Males is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther M. Friesner with the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg, with a cover by Larry Elmore. It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in May 1999. It was the third of a number of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner.

The book collects eighteen short stories by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Friesner.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Myth Manners' Guide to Greek Missology #1: Andromeda and Perseus" (Harry Turtledove)
• "Chain, Link, Fence" (Steven Piziks)
• "Fool's Gold" (Elizabeth Moon)
• "In for a Pound" (Lawrence Watt-Evans)
• "Death Becomes Him" (Marina Frants)
• "Straight Arrow" (Susan Shwartz)
• "Bad Heir Day" (Rosemary Edghill)
• "Why Do You Think They Call It Middle Earth?" (Susan Casper)
• "Leg Irons, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe" (Laura Frankos)
• "Shiftless" (Josepha Sherman)
• "May/December at the Mall" (Brian D. Akers)
• "Yo, Baby!" (Jan Stirling)
• "Don't Break the Chain!" (Jody Lynn Nye)
• "Cross CHILDREN Walk" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "...But Comedy is Hard" (Kate Daniel)
• "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Kevin Andrew Murphy)
• "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Five Unseemly Sorrows" (K. D. Wentworth)
• "Miss Underwood and the Mermaid" (Sarah Zettel)

External links

• ISFD entry for Chicks 'n Chained Males