Turn the Other Chick

Turn the Other Chick

Cover of Turn the Other Chick
Author	edited by Esther M. Friesner
Cover artist	Mitch Foust
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Chicks in Chainmail
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Baen Books
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	295 pp.
ISBN	0-7434-8857-1
OCLC	55800911
Dewey Decimal	813/.0876608358 22
LC Class	PS648.W6 T87 2004
Preceded by	The Chick is in the Mail
Followed by	Chicks and Balances

Turn the Other Chick is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Esther M. Friesner, with a cover by Mitch Foust. It consists of works featuring female protagonists by (mostly) female authors. It was first published in hardcover by Baen Books in November 2004; a paperback edition followed in March 2006. It was the fifth of a series of similarly themed anthologies edited by Friesner. (The first three books were collected as Chicks Ahoy in 2010).

The book collects twenty-two short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction and a section of notes about the authors by Friesner.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Mightier Than the Sword" (John G. Hemry)
• "A Late Symmer Night's Battle" (Laura Frankos)
• "Psyched Up" (Michael D. Turner)
• "Branded" (Jan Stirling)
• "The Girl's Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord" (Cassandra Claire)
• "She Stuffs to Conquer" (Yvonne Coats)
• "The Gypsy Queen" (Catherine H. Shaffer)
• "Over the Hill" (Jim C. Hines)
• "A Sword Called Rhonda" (D. S. Moen)
• "Giants in the Earth" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Rituals for a New God" (Wen Spencer)
• "I Look Good" (Selina Rosen)
• "Combat Shopping" (Lee Martindale)
• "Battle Ready" (J. Ardian Lee)
• "A Woman's Armor" (Lesley McBain)
• "Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Hall of the Puppet King" (K. D. Wentworth)
• "Princess Injera Versus the Spanakopita of Doom" (Robin Wayne Bailey)
• "Brunhilde's Bra" (Laura J. Underwood)
• "Smoke and Mirrors" (Steven Piziks)
• "The Truth About the Gotterdammerung" (Eric Flint)
• "Defender of the Small" (Jody Lynn Nye)
• "Of Mice and Chicks" (Harry Turtledove)
• "About the Authors" (Esther M. Friesner)

External links

• Turn the Other Chick title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database