Bradley, Marion Z.: SWORD AND SORCERESS XIV

WOMEN OF COURAGE AND POWER...

...roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and magic. They are sword-wielding defenders or sorcerous spell-casters - roles too often considered the exclusive province of men.

In 26 original stories of bold and talented women, Diana Paxson, Deborah Wheeler, Elisabeth Waters, Adrienne Martine-Barnes and their fellow word-weavers lead their readers through bespelled realms of the imagination into dangers both physical and sorcerous, where all the powers of Avalon lie in a woman's hands...a talisman of love can banish a demon's deadly threat...an otherworldly hunter catches different game than she bargained for...a mother's scorn begets a daughter's magic...

CONTENTS:

• The Bargain (Laura J. Underwood)
• The Impression of Power (Lee Martindale)
• The Naming of Names (Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
• Changelings (Diana L. Paxson)
• Death-Hunt (Raul Reyes)
• A Single Soul (Deborah Wheeler)
• The Needle and the Sword (Jessie D. Eaker)
• Small Considertions (Judith Fielder Leggett)
• If You Can't Stand the Heat… (P.E. Cunningham)
• Silver Bands (Syne Mitchell)
• The Hand of a Lady (Anne Cutrell)
• To Have and To Hold (K.D. Barnes)
• A Knight on Tower Hill (Kathrina Bood)
• The Longest Night (Lisa S. Silverthorne)
• Blood Moon (Cynthia Ward)
• By the Skin of her Teeth (Heather Rose Jones)
• Friends in High Places (Christina Krueger)
• The Blade of Unmaking (Elisabeth Waters)
• The Stone-Weaver's Tale (Cynthia McQuillin)
• The Hollow Dancer (Mary Soon Lee)
• La Faie Suiateih (Lisa Deason)
• Vengeance (Dorothy J. Heydt)
• The Moongate Troll (Patricia Duffy Novak)
• Lifestone (Mary Catelli)
• White Elephants (Christopher Kempke)
• Traveler's Aide (Kathi Thompson)

EDITOR:  Marion Zimmer Bradley

COVER: paperback

PAGES: 348

LANGUAGE: english