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DANGEROUS WOMEN EDITED BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN AND GARDNER DOZOIS HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2013 Copyright © George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois 2013 Dangerous Women / Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. “Some Desperado” Copyright © 2013 by Joe Abercrombie “My Heart Is Either Broken” Copyright © 2013 by Megan Abbott “Nora’s Song” Copyright © 2013 by Cecelia Holland “The Hands That Are Not There” Copyright © 2013 by Melinda Snodgrass “Bombshells” Copyright © 2013 by Jim Butcher “Raisa Stepanova” Copyright © 2013 by Carrie Vaughn “Wrestling Jesus” Copyright © 2013 by Joe R. Lansdale “Neighbors” Copyright © 2013 by Megan Lindholm “I Know How to Pick ’Em” Copyright © 2013 by Lawrence Block “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” Copyright © 2013 by Brandon Sanderson “A Queen in Exile” Copyright © 2013 by Sharon Kay Penman “The Girl in the Mirror” Copyright © 2013 by Lev Grossman “Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” copyright © 2013 by Nancy Kress “City Lazarus” Copyright © 2013 by Diana Rowland “Virgins” Copyright © 2013 by Diana Gabaldon “Hell Hath No Fury” Copyright © 2013 by Sherrilyn Kenyon “Pronouncing Doom” Copyright © 2013 by S. M. Stirling “Name the Beast” Copyright © 2013 by Sam Sykes “Caretakers” Copyright © 2013 by Pat Cadigan “Lies My Mother Told Me” Copyright © 2013 by Caroline Spector “The Princess and the Queen” Copyright © 2013 by George R. R. Martin The author of each individual story asserts their moral rights, including the right be identified as the author of their work A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007549405 Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780007549412 Version: 2018-06-20 This ebook contains the following accessibility features which, if supported by your device, can be accessed via your ereader/accessibility settings: Change of font size and line height Change of background and font colours Change of font Change justification Text to speech
To Jo Playford, my dangerous minion.
[—George R. R. Martin] Contents
Some Desperado by Joe Abercrombie
My Heart Is Either Broken by Megan Abbott
Nora’s Song by Cecelia Holland
The Hands That Are Not There by Melinda Snodgrass
Raisa Stepanova by Carrie Vaughn
Wrestling Jesus by Joe R. Lansdale
I Know How to Pick ’Em by Lawrence Block
Shadows For Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson
A Queen in Exile by Sharon Kay Penman
The Girl in the Mirror by Lev Grossman
