Fast Ships, Black Sails

Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere!
Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.

Table of Content

"Boojum" by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette
"Castor on Troubled Waters" by Rhys Hughes
"I Begyn as I Mean To Go On" by Kage Baker
"Avast, Abaft!" by Howard Waldrop
"Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, And Righteous Thieves" by Kelly Barnhill
"Skillet and Saber" by Justin Howe
"The Nymph's Child" by Carrie Vaughn
"68° 07' 15"N, 31° 36' 44"W" by Conrad Williams
"Ironface" by Michael Moorcock
"Pirates Solutions" by Katherine Sparrow
"We Sleep on Thousand Waves beneath the Stars" by Brendan Connell
"Voyage of the Iguana" by Steve Aylett
"Pirates of the Saura Sea" by David Freer & Eric Flint
"A Cold Day in Hell" By Paul Batteiger
"The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth" by Rachel Swirsky
"Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake" by Naomi Novik
"The Whale below" by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
"Beyond the Seagate ff the Scholar-Pirate of Sarskoe" by Garth Nix

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