Chicks in Tank Tops

by Jason Cordova (Editor)

Overview

THE CHICKS ARE BACK! CELEBRATING FEARLESS AND FEARSOME FEMALES WITH ALL-NEW STORIES.

Featuring all-new stories inspired by the classic Chicks in Chainmail series!

A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther.

Besides, what’s not to love about Chicks in Tank Tops? From pure near-future military science fiction to Pride and Prejudice with zombies, AI tanks, and true love!

All-new stories by: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, David Drake, Jody Lynn Nye, Kevin Ikenberry, Esther Friesner, Joelle Presby, Robert E. Hampson, A.C. Haskins, Lydia Sherrer & David Sherrer, G. Scott Huggins, Philip Wohlrab, Marisa Wolf, and Jason Cordova & Ashley Prior.

Praise for the Chicks anthologies:

"A romp for the humor-unimpaired . . . must reading . . ." —Booklist

"There's something to offend everyone . . . so bring your sense of humor, and prepare to be entertained." —Locus

"There's not an average story in the whole bunch—they're all gems." —Realms of Fantasy

Praise for Jason Cordova:

“A great combination of story-telling skill and imagination that really hooks you.” —Larry Correia, NYT best-selling author of Monster Hunters International.

“Jason Cordova is the master of the blasters-and-spaceships style SF that I grew up on, a throwback to a classic era of space adventure . . . From kaiju to mecha, from bounty hunters to mercenaries, Cordova has done it all and done it well.” —Rick Partlow, best-selling author of the Drop Troopers series

“Filled with brutal action and heart-wrenching moments . . . Jason Cordova is cruel to his characters in all the best ways an author should be.” —Jacob Holo, co-author of the Gordian Division series, on Wraithkin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982192358
Publisher:	Baen
Publication date:	01/03/2023
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	106,231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist. Besides editing his first anthology in Chicks in Tank Tops, he is also coauthoring Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever with Larry Correia, coming soon from Baen Books. He has 15 novels currently in print and has been featured in numerous anthologies. A Navy veteran, he is also a former middle school teacher. Though Californian by birth, he has since relocated to the South, where he swears at the humidity on a thrice-daily basis. He can be found at www.jasoncordova.com.

Editorial Reviews

11/14/2022

Cordova (Kin Wars) effortlessly picks up the tradition of Esther Friesner, who edited the seven previous Chicks in Chainmail anthologies. These 14 stories feature formidable female protagonists in a diverse range of settings, and all showcase gifted authors given free rein to let their imaginations run wild. Cordova’s own “Belle’s Fantastical Mechanical Beast,” cowritten with Ashley Prior, brilliantly riffs on Disney’s musical take on Beauty and the Beast: Belle is the only resident of her small French village who does not break out into song at random (“Where in the nine levels of Hell did they find an orchestral string quartet to accompany their singing?”). Instead, she labors to build a “beast” using a combination of the mechanical and the alchemical as a way of avoiding marrying the tax man. Jody Lynn Nye’s “A Girl and Her K’t’ank” also stands out. The heroine is a police detective tracking smugglers while hosting an intelligent alien in her abdomen because it “approximates the salinity and temperature of the seas on his homeworld.” Fans of lighter-hearted fantasy and sci-fi will be pleased. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly