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Description edit
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.
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First Sentence edit
At least part of the current fascination with pirates, including our own, has to be about freedom, frontiers, a yearning for adventure and a desire to explore exotic locales.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction: "Raising Anchor" - Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
"Boojum" - Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
"Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake" - Naomi Novik
"Avast, Abaft!" - Howard Waldrop
"I Begyn as I Mean to Go On" - Kage Baker
"Castor on Troubled Waters" - Rhys Hughes
"Elegy for Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores and Righteous Thieves" - Kelly Barnhill
"Skillet and Saber" - Justin Howe
"The Nymph's Child" - Carrie Vaughn
"68˚06'N, 31˚40'W" - Conrad Williams
"Pirate Solutions" - Katherine Sparrow
"We Sleep on a Thousand Waves" - Brendan Connell
"Pirates of the Suara Sea" - David Freer & Eric Flint
"Voyage of the Iguana" - Steve Aylett
"Iron Face" - Michael Moorcock
"A Cold Day in Hell" - Paul Batteiger
"Captain Blackheart Wentworth" - Rachel Swirsky
"The Whale Below" - Jayme Lynn Blaschke
"Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarskoe" - Garth Nix
Series & Lists edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeff VanderMeer (Editor)
- Ann Vandermeer (Editor)
Other Contributors:
- Elizabeth Bear (Contributor) - "Boojum" with Sarah Monette
- Sarah Monette (Contributor) - "Boojum" with Elizabeth Bear
- Naomi Novik (Contributor) - "Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake"
- Howard Waldrop (Contributor) - "Avast, Abaft!"
- Kage Baker (Contributor) - "I Begyn as I Mean to Go On"
- Rhys Hughes (Contributor) - "Castor on Troubled Waters"
- Kelly Regan Barnhill (Contributor) - "Elegy for Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores and Righteous Thieves"
- Justin Howe (Contributor) - "Skillet and Saber"
- Carrie Vaughn (Contributor) - "The Nymph's Child"
- Conrad Williams (Contributor) - "68˚06'N, 31˚40'W"
- Katherine Sparrow (Contributor) - "Pirate Solutions"
- Brendan Connell (Contributor) - "We Sleep on a Thousand Waves"
- David Freer (Contributor) - "Pirates of the Suara Sea" with Eric Flint.
- Eric Flint (Contributor) - "Pirates of the Suara Sea" with David Freer.
- Steve Aylett (Contributor) - "Voyage of the Iguana"
- Michael Moorcock (Contributor) - "Iron Face"
- Paul Batteiger (Contributor) - "A Cold Day in Hell"
- Rachel Swirsky (Contributor) - "Captain Blackheart Wentworth"
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke (Contributor) - "The Whale Below"
- Garth Nix (Contributor) - "Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarskoe"
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Nightshade Books
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
ISBN: 9781597800945
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Nightshade Books
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: November 4, 2008
ISBN: 9781597800945
Page Count: 256
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.087
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