About This Book
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.
Fast Ships, Black Sails presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original swashbuckling stories from the past to the present and beyond.
Come along on the voyage with bestselling authors Naomi Novik, Garth Nix, Carrie Vaughn, Eric Flint & David Firer, and. Michael Moorcock, as well as such other stellar talents as Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette, Steve Aylett, and Conrad Williams -- all offering up a veritable treasure chest of piratical adventure, the likes of which have never been seen in the four corners of the Earth.
Highlights include a brand-new Garth Nix "Sir Hereward tic Mister Fitz" novella, as the two clever ne'er-do-wells storm the seagate of the scholar-pirates of Sarkoe.
If ever you had a yearning for adventure on the high seas, now's the time to indulge it, with Fast Ships, Black Sails. You'll return with a sword shoved through your sash, booty in a safe harbor, and beer on your breath. We promise.
