All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authorsâ bestselling continuitiesâincluding a new âOutlanderâ story by Diana Gabaldon, a  tale of Harry Dresdenâs world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.
Also included are original stories of dangerous women--heroines and villains alike--by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn,  S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others.
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Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, âHere youâll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, youâll find you have a real fight on your hands.  Instead, you will find sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, female Private Investigators, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more.â
Stories and Narrators (in order of appearance):
âSome Desperadoâ by Joe Abercrombie; Read by Stana Katic
âMy Heart Is Either Brokenâ by Megan Abbott; Read by Jake Weber
âNoraâs Songâ by Cecelia Holland; Read by Harriet Walter
âThe Hands That Are Not Thereâ by Melinda Snodgrass; Read by Jonathan Frakes
âBombshellsâ by Jim Butcher; Read by Emily Rankin
âRaisa Stepanovaâ by Carrie Vaughn; Read by Inna Korobkina          Â
âWrestling Jesusâ by Joe R. Lansdale; Read by Scott Brick
âNeighborsâ by Megan Lindholm; Read by Lee Meriwether
âI Know How to Pick âEmâ by Lawrence Block; Read by Jake Weber
âShadows for Silence in the Forests of Hellâ by Brandon Sanderson; Read by Claudia Black
âA Queen in Exileâ by Sharon Kay Penman; Read by Harriet Walter
âThe Girl in the Mirrorâ by Lev Grossman; Read by Sophie Turner
âSecond Arabesque, Very Slowlyâ by Nancy Kress; Read by Janis Ian
âCity Lazarusâ by Diana Rowland; Read by Scott Brick
âVirginsâ by Diana Gabaldon; Read by Allan Scott-Douglas
âPronouncing Doomâ by S.M. Stirling; Read by Stana Katic
âName the Beastâ by Sam Sykes; Read by Claudia Black
âCaregiversâ by Pat Cadigan; Read by Janis Ian
âLies My Mother Told Meâ by Caroline Spector; Read by Maggi-Meg Reed
âHell Hath No Furyâ by Sherilynn Kenyon; Read by Jenna Lamia
âThe Princess and the Queenâ by George R. R. Martin; Read by Iain Glen
The introduction by Gardner Dozois is read by Fred Sanders and the interstitial author biographies are read by Karen Dotrice.
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