{"id":358,"date":"2019-04-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/?p=358"},"modified":"2019-04-18T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:30:00","slug":"book-probe-swords-sorcery-and-self-rescuing-damsels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/blog\/2019\/book-probe-swords-sorcery-and-self-rescuing-damsels\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Probe: Swords, Sorcery, and Self-Rescuing Damsels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read this book. Come on. Do it. Get it at the link in the title. Are you doing it yet?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Swords, Sorcery, and Self-Rescuing Damsels<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

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In short, this is good stuff.<\/p>\n

This is an epic gathering of authors for a collection of sword & sorcery short stories about women, and it is an absolute thrill.<\/p>\n

Editor Lee French’s editor’s note says everything, noting that the term “damsels in distress” reduces women to poorly-dimensioned plot points “useful as nothing more than a prize for defeating the enemy.”<\/p>\n

“This depiction sucks,” Lee adds.<\/p>\n

The authors here include some of my personal favorites such as Jody Lynn Nye and Dawn Vogel. Like a properly good anthology, the book will introduce you to a plethora of writers that you can consume later. In my case, Elmdea Adams, who contributed “Yendy Loves Rattlescale,” my favorite story in the collection as of this writing.<\/p>\n

It stars a dragon. Case closed. Buy the book. There are almost two dozen other stories, but this one stars a dragon.<\/p>\n

The only drawback: Not enough room for maps of the fantasy realms at the beginning of each story. I’ll let this one slide because the book would be about a zillion pages longer. You have to make sacrifices sometimes.<\/p>\n

All the stories are old-fashioned fantasy tales, and I mean that as a compliment. They’re cathartic, empowering, and frequently just plain hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read this book. Come on. Do it. Get it at the link in the title. Are you doing it yet?\u00a0 Swords, Sorcery, and Self-Rescuing Damsels   In short, this is good stuff. This is an epic gathering of authors for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[105,106,104,103],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-probe","category-joe-crowe","tag-anthology","tag-fantasy-fiction","tag-jody-lynn-nye","tag-swords-and-sorcery"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n