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Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXVI [MultiFormat]
eBook by Elisabeth Waters
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Women of Sorcery and Conquest... For over two decades, the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, best-selling and beloved author, discovered and nurtured a grand generation of authors. The roster of contributors over the years includes Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Diana L. Paxson, Emma Bull, Jennifer Roberson, and countless others. The nineteen original stories featured here include such stellar authors as Deborah J. Ross, Dave Smeds, K.D. Wentworth, and exciting newcomers whose voices are sure to be heard again. Sword and Sorceress 26 includes stories by Kat Otis, Deborah J. Ross, Jean Tatro, Jonathan Shipley, Melissa Mead, Michael Spence and Elisabeth Waters, Margaret L. Carter, Dave Smeds, Patricia Duffy Novak, Michael H. Payne, Pauline J. Alama, Steve Chapman, J.C. Hsyu, Jonathan Moeller, K.D. Wentworth, David L. Burkhead, Julia H. West, Joette M. Rozanski, and Katharina Schuschke.
eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: 2011
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2011
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [334 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [321 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [277 KB]
, Portable Document Format (PDF) [951 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [313 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [294 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [322 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [710 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [389 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [258 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [324 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [392 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [428 KB]
Words: 92843
Reading time: 265-371 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Introduction
This past year has been tough on many of us, especially from an economic standpoint. All one has to do is pick up one of the newspapers titled something like 'Careers and Jobs'--the notices are for schools that claim to train students for in-demand jobs, but there are no listings for jobs. I suspect that for many people it has been emotionally taxing as well. But as I read through this year's submissions I realized that I have been blessed with some of the most emotionally resilient writers around. Most years I'm lucky to get one short and funny story for the end of the anthology; this year I got two, so I put one at the beginning as well.
In spite of a current fictional landscape of dystopian futures, of vampires, demons, and fallen angels (and those are the heroes!), I got a lot of stories that were light-hearted and hopeful, where most of the protagonists were still alive and human at the end--those who were human to begin with, that is. We still have a protagonist who is a squirrel. We have sorceresses and swordswomen, dragons, princesses, ghosts (both dead and alive), djinn, and, of course, a magical cat.
I don't say that I'd want to live permanently in the magical worlds portrayed in this volume, but they're nice places to visit and a refreshing change from current events. I hope that you enjoy these stories as much as I do.
--Elisabeth Waters
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