Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Dangerous Women

This was a fun read - an anthology of fiction, mostly Fantasy, but some crime and historical fiction, all related to the topic of Dangerous Women. Some of it was fantastic, some terrible (note to self: never read any of the Dresden Files novels). Some stories were entirely populated by ass-kicking women; some were men dealing with the consequences of women being dangerous. Wikipedia has a good list of the stories contained.

I bought it mainly for George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire short story, "The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens" - about the Dance of the Dragons, a civil war fought in Westeros 200 years before A Game of Thrones. It was good, if a bit dry and history-textbookish. But many of the other stories are fantastic, and well worth the read.