Amazons!

Amazons! is a 1979 anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, with a theme of women warriors.

Blurb: "Amazons! An anthology of original stories by fine writers about women warriors that was so good that it won the World Fantasy Award as the best collection of the year"

Editions

• Daw (Wollheim): New York, 1979

Contents

Amazons! includes:

• "Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson;
• "The Dreamstone" by C. J. Cherryh;
• "Wolves of Nakesht" by Janrae Frank;
• "Woman of the White Waste" by T. J. Morgan;
• "The Death of Augusta" by Emily Brontë, edited by Joanna Russ;
• "Morrien's Bitch" by Janet Fox;
• "Agbewe's Sword" by Charles R. Saunders;
• "Jane Saint's Travails (Part One)" by Josephine Saxton;
• "The Sorrows of Witches" by Margaret St. Clair;
• "Falcon Blood" by Andre Norton;
• "The Rape Patrol" by Michele Belling;
• "Bones for Dulath" by Megan Lindholm;
• "Northern Chess" by Tanith Lee;
• "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn;

and

• Additional Reading compiled with Susan Wood.