"Esther M. Friesner - Chicks 05 - Turn The Other Chick" - читать интересную книгу автора (Friesner Esther M)

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

Chicks in Chainmail
Did You Say Chicks?!
Chicks and Chained Males
The Chick is in the Mail
Turn the Other Chick

E.Godz(with Robert Asprin)

Introduction


Welcome to the fifthChicks in Chainmailanthology. Allow me to offer you a comfortable chair, a bowl of
popcorn, some corn chips and salsa, perhaps a few carrot sticks, and the healthful beverage of your
choice before placing this book in your lap. No, it's notTurn the Other Chick;not yet. It's a family album.

"Whose family?" you ask. (Or perhaps you ask "What's this bushwah about a 'healthful beverage'?
Gimme a chocolate ice cream soda, straight up, before I getnasty." In which case, shame on you.)
Maybe it's yours. It's definitely mine. The members thereof are a small selection of fictitious heroines who
aren't represented in this book but who have had a whole lot of impact on changing how people think
about women. They've put down the order pad, the bake sale brownies, and theWhy His Problems Are
Always Your Faultbook and picked up the sword instead. I'd say they deserve at least a passing nod, a
smile, and even a few words of thanks for all that they've done for us. (I wouldn't suggest a pat on the
back, though. These chicks have got ratherenthusiasticreflexes, they don't like surprises, and they're
probably toting something sharp.)

There's the woman herself, Xena, Warrior Princess. She's gone now, as is her faithful sidekick Gabrielle
who became a woman warrior in her own right before their story ended.

Ah, and Eowyn and Arwen from the movie versions ofThe Lord of the Rings! Not 100% true to the
book, but that's the nature of the cinematic critter. The purist in me might sulk, but my Inner Child is
brandishing an elven blade and whooping "Arwen finally gets to do something besides wait around for
Aragorn to show up!Yes!"
Check out Princes Leia, who proved to a doubting world that just because you send out a wideband
Damsel in Distress call you can still kick plenty of Dark Side butt when the opportunity presents itself.

And can this be little Buffy Summers? My, how she's grown. Yes, youcanfight evil and still hold down a
job in the exciting and high-paying fast food industry!

I apologize to those of my fellow J.K. Rowling fans who are asking why Hermione Granger isn't here.
She's certainly a fighter, just not the kind that uses a sword.

Oh, very well, let's include her. I suppose you could argue that not every woman warrior fights her