Sword and Sorceress XIX

WOMEN OF MIGHT AND MAGIC
roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and sorcery. They are sword-wielding defenders or magical spell-casters—roles too often considered the exclusive province of men.

Handpicked by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, here are 25 original stories about bold and talented women created by such masterful word-weavers as Diana Paxson, Esther M. Friesner, and Dorothy J. Heydt. Journey with them now through enchanted realms of the imagination into perils both physical and magical:

Where the respect a sorceress pays to a simple farm animal can cure an entire village suffering from a devastating plague....

A young woman is able to free a goddess from her husband, the god of war, with one word....
With the help of a healer, a group of animal "familiars" unite to vanquish the magician who slew their masters....

When the mentor of an apprentice sorceress is killed, the young sorceress-to-be gains her power from the most unlikely source imaginable....