Turn The Other Chick

THOSE RAMBUNCTIOUS CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL
ARE BACK—AND BOTH THEIR WIT AND
THEIR SWORDS ARE AS SHARP AS EVER!

One good turn deserves another and those unpredictable amazons are in action again, swords sharpened, chainmail polished, and makeup in place, ready to fight the good fight on the field of battle. And if you think they're just male wish-fulfillment fantasies, you'd better say it under your breath and out of their earshot, because these barbarian babes were born to battle.

All new adventures of fearless women warriors by Eric Flint, author of 1632; Nebula-winning author Harry Turtledove; Jody Lynn Nye, co-author of the national best seller The Ship Who Won; Campbell Award-winner Wen Spencer, and many more, including the inimitable Esther Friesner herself, as fantasy adventure takes a turn for the lighter side.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Esther Friesner is a winner twice over of the coveted Nebula Award (for the Year's Best Short Story, 1995 and 1996), and is the author of twenty-nine novels (including the USA Today best seller Warchild) and more than one hundred short stories. She has also having edited six anthologies, including the four previous volumes in the very popular Chicks in Chainmail series for Baen: Chicks in Chainmail, Did You Say Chicks!?, Chicks ‘n Chained Males, and The Chick is in the Mail. Her works have been published in the UK, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, and Italy. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, and two rambunctious cats.

Illustration by Mitch Faust
Cover design by Carol Russo

Hardcover

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, November 2004

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Turn the other chick / edited by Esther M. Friesner.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-7434-8857-1
1. Women soldiers—Fiction. 2. Adventure stories, American. 3. Fantasy fiction,
American. 4. War stories, American. I. Friesner, Esther M.

PS648.W6T87 2004
813'.0876608358—dc22
2004015088

ISBN: 0-7434-8857-1

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Dedication

This book is respectfully dedicated to
Tanya and Grant Van Der Ploeg
Artists and Artisans

BAEN BOOKS by Esther M. Friesner

Editor, Chicks in Chainmail Series