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Dangerous Women

by · 2013

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The Dangerous Women anthology contains following stories:

- Introduction by Gardner Dozois

- "Some Desperado" by Joe Abercrombie - A Red Country story

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- "My Heart is Either Broken" by Megan Abbott

- "Nora's Song" by Cecelia Holland

- "The Hands That Are Not There" by Melinda Snodgrass

- "Bombshells" by Jim Butcher - A Harry Dresden story

- "Raisa Stepanova" by Carrie Vaughn

- "Wrestling Jesus" by Joe R. Lansdale

- "Neighbors" by Megan Lindholm

- "I Know How to Pick 'Em" by Lawrence Block

- "Shadows For Silence in the Forests of Hell" by Brandon Sanderson - A Cosmere story

- "A Queen in Exile" by Sharon Kay Penman

- "The Girl in the Mirror" by Lev Grossman - A Magicians story

- "Second Arabesque, Very Slowly" by Nancy Kress

- "City Lazarus" by Diana Rowland

- "Virgins" by Diana Gabaldon - An Outlander story

- "Hell Hath No Fury" by Sherilynn Kenyon

- "Pronouncing Doom" by S.M. Stirling - An Emberverse story

- "Name the Beast" by Sam Sykes

- "Caretakers" by Pat Cadigan

- "Lies My Mother Told Me" by Caroline Spector - A Wild Cards story

- "The Princess and the Queen" by George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire story

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