Fight Like A Girl – Volume 2
 ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-913892-84-5 EPUB: 978-1-913892-82-1 MOBI: 978-1-913892-83-8 |
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Description
Finalist: Best Collected Work, British Science Fiction Association Awards 2025
Finalist: Best Anthology, British Fantasy Awards 2025
The first volume of Fight Like A Girl was produced in response to accusations that stories of women warriors were somehow unrealistic and anachronistic. Sadly the need to counter such narratives still exists, but with this new volume we have also sought to broaden the types of women in the stories, and the ways in which they fight. In this book you will find a variety of science fiction and fantasy stories by top women writers. The heroines will face down adversity in many different ways and show what it is like to Fight Like A Girl.
Contents
- Foreword by Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall
- Introduction by Charlotte Bond
- The God of Lost Things Or Ethel, Dragonslayer by Danie Ware
- Ambition’s Engine by Gaie Sebold
- A Human Response by Dolly Garland
- More Trouble Than She’s Worth? by Cheryl Morgan
- Civil War by Juliet E. McKenna
- Lady Cona by Anna Smith Spark
- Ready for Combat by K R Green
- We have Always Been Here by Julia Hawkes-Reed
- The Seamstress, the Hound, the Cook, and her Brother by K T Davies
- A Way Out by S. Naomi Scott
- Amplify by Lou Morgan
Praise for Fight Like A Girl 2
“I very much enjoyed many of the stories in this anthology.” — The Monday Review
“For me a healthy genre is one that constantly evolves and continues a dialogue with itself; reflecting who we are now and not stuck in its past. Eight years can be relatively recent but it seems only a few years ago we were being told no women read or write fantasy (to the surprise of the many women who did), cons would have strange ‘women in fantasy’ panels where authors of vastly different sub genres and styles would be grouped together as clearly all women wrote the same book, and yet now that has happily led to a new genre that is not unusual. Is that it all done? No just like the wider outside world changes we are still exploring the role and indeed the definition of a woman in a science fiction or fantasy environment. Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall have delivered the excellent Fight Like A Girl Volume 2 with a host of excellent authors delivering intelligent and hugely enjoyable stories to push that conversation onwards.” — Runalong Womble, Runalong the Shelves
“Fight Like A Girl: Volume 2 is a rollercoaster ride, whether careening into the abyss barely holding the tracks, or hauling the reader in ‘our girl’s’ wake to the heights of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Yes, there is plenty of fighting; weapons of choice, ranging from spears, swords, guns and nukes, to spirit power, magic, death rays, and dragons. Repeatedly though, it is courage, insight, empathy, and invention that win the day, and are we not entertained? We most certainly are.” — Robin C M Duncan, The British Fantasy Society