Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction

by Janine A. Southard

Introduction from the Woman Who Started It All

by Jennifer Mace

Margo Lai’s Guide to Dueling Unprepared

by Alison Tam

Princess, Shieldmaiden, Witch, and Wolf

by Neon Yang

Elinor Jones vs. the Ruritanian Multiverse

by Freya Marske

by Django Wexler

by Cara Patterson

Positively Medieval

by Kaitlyn Zivanovich

Book and Hammer, Blade and Bone

by Ann LeBlanc

What Finds You in the Deep

by K.A. Doore

The Sweet Tooth of Angwar Bec

by Ellen Kushner

by S.K. Terentiev

by Chris Wolfgang

In the Salt Crypts of Ghiarelle

by Jennifer Mace

The City Unbreachable

by Yoon Ha Lee

The Commander and the Mirage Master’s Mate

by Elaine McIonyn

The Epic Fifth Wedding Anniversary of Zaynne the Barbarian and Tikka the Accountant

by Elizabeth Davis

The Parnassian Courante

by Claire Bartlett

The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute

by Aliette de Bodard

About the Authors

Acknowledgements