Sword and Sorceress XVIII

Sword and Sorceress XVIII: An Anthology of Heroic Fantasy, edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, is the eighteenth in the 20+–volume Sword and Sorceress anthology series.

Stories were selected by Bradley before her death and published as anthology after her death.

Editions

• 2001: Daw Books, New York, NY; ISBN 0-88677-996-0

Contents

• Introduction by Elisabeth Waters (p. 1);

• "A Passage of Power" by Diana L. Paxson (p. 3);
• "Lessons Learned" by Kati Doughery-Carthum (p. 23);
• "Kendat's Ax" by Jan Combs (p. 35);
• "The Tower of Song" by Howard Holman (p. 48);
• "The Needed Stone" by Denise Lopes Heald (p. 69);
• "Armageddon" by Lisa Silverthorne (p. 90);
• "The Land of Graves" by Dave Smeds (p. 94);
• "Light" by Susan Urbanek Linville (p. 112);
• "In the Secret Places of the Earth" by Dorothy J. Heydt (p. 134);
• "The Glass Sword" by Richard Corwin (p. 151);
• "Bed of Roses" by Elisabeth Waters (p. 164);
• "Sword of Peace" by Lucy Cohen Schmeidler (p. 181);
• "The Fall of the Kingdom" by Mary Soon Lee (p. 192);
• "Arms and the Woman" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (p. 197);
• "The Stone Wives" by Michael Chesley Johnson (p. 214);
• "Tiger's Eye" by India Edghill (p. 227);
• "Raven-Wings on the Snow" by Pauline J. Alama (p. 245);
• "Little Rogue Riding Hood" by Rosemary Edghill (p. 265);
• "The Queen in Yellow" by Gerald Perkins (p. 287); and
• "Magic Threads" by Pete D. Manison (p. 297).