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Fast Ships, Black Sails
| Author: | Ann VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer |
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Night Shade Books, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- and so do readers everywhere!
Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A Fascination with Pirates - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
- Boojum - short story by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
- Castor on Troubled Waters - short story by Rhys Hughes
- I Begyn as I Mean To Go On - short story by Kage Baker
- Avast, Abaft! - short story by Howard Waldrop
- Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, and Righteous Thieves - short story by Kelly Barnhill
- Skillet and Saber - short story by Justin Howe
- The Nymph's Child - short story by Carrie Vaughn
- 68° 07′ 15″ N, 31° 36′ 44″ W - short story by Conrad Williams
- Ironface - short story by Michael Moorcock
- Pirate Solutions - short story by Katherine Sparrow
- We Sleep on a Thousand Waves Beneath the Stars - short story by Brendan Connell
- Voyage of the Iguana - short story by Steve Aylett
- Pirates of the Suara Sea - short story by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
- A Cold Day in Hell - short story by Paul Batteiger
- The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail - short story by Rachel Swirsky
- Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake - short story by Naomi Novik
- The Whale Below - short story by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
- Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe - short story by Garth Nix
- Author Notes - essay by uncredited
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