Silk & Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology

copyright © 2020 by Janine A. Southard. Each title copyrighted individually by its contributor.

Published November 2020 by Cantina Publishing.

All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

“The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute” by Aliette de Bodard, © 2020 by Aliette de Bodard

“Margo Lai’s Guide to Dueling Unprepared” by Alison Tam, © 2020 by Alison Tam

“Book and Hammer, Blade and Bone” by Ann LeBlanc, © 2020 by Ann LeBlanc

“Little Birds” by Cara Patterson, © 2020 by Cara Patterson

“Chicago Iron” by Chris Wolfgang, © 2020 by Chris Wolfgang

“The Parnassian Courante” by Claire Bartlett, © 2020 by Claire Bartlett

“Plan Z” by Django Wexler, © 2020 Django Wexler

“The Commander and the Mirage Master’s Mate” by Elaine McIonyn, © 2020 by Elaine McIonyn

“The Epic Fifth Wedding Anniversary of Zaynne the Barbarian and Tikka the Accountant” by Elizabeth Davis, © 2020 by Elizabeth Davis

“The Sweet Tooth of Angwar Bec” by Ellen Kushner, © 2020 by Ellen Kushner

“Elinor Jones vs. the Ruritanian Multiverse” by Freya Marske, © 2020 by Freya Marske

“In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle” by Jennifer Mace, © 2020 by Jennifer Mace

“What Finds You in the Deep” by K.A. Doore, © 2020 by K.A. Doore

“Positively Medieval” by Kaitlyn Zivanovich, © 2020 by Kaitlyn Zivanovich

“Princess, Shieldmaiden, Witch, and Wolf” by Neon Yang, © 2020 by Neon Yang

“Danger Noodle” by S.K. Terentiev, © 2020 by S.K. Terentiev

“The City Unbreachable” by Yoon Ha Lee, © 2020 by Yoon Ha Lee

Cover Art by Alexis Moore

Cover Design by James, GoOnWrite.com

Copy Edited by Adrienne Smith

Interior Art by Kerin Cunningham

ebook ISBN: 978-1-63327-025-1

Print ISBN: 978-1-63327-026-8

ASIN: B088C49VMD