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Created page with "Original cover for Amazons! by [[Michael Whelan.]] Reprint cover for Amazons! by [[Michael Whelan.]] '''Amazons!'..."
[[Image:Dif amazons.jpeg|thumb|Original cover for Amazons! by [[Michael Whelan]].]]
[[Image:Amazons.jpg|thumb|Reprint cover for Amazons! by [[Michael Whelan]].]]
'''Amazons!''' is an anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson first published in 1979. It features cover art and frontispiece art by [[Michael Whelan]]. The anthology won the 1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection <ref>http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/1980.html 1980 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees</ref> and was followed by a second volume, ''Amazons II'' in 1982. Amazons! was the first commercial publication to feature a [[Megan Lindholm]] story, the [[Windsingers' Quartet|Ki and Vandien]] short [[Bones for Dulath]].
==Contents==
* ''Amazons'' by Melanie Kaye (poem)
* ''Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage'' by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
* ''The Dreamstone'' by C. J. Cherryh
* ''Wolves of Nakesht'' by Janrae Frank
* ''Woman of the White Waste'' by T. J. Morgan
* ''T'he Death of Augusta'' by Emily Brontë edited by Joanna Russ (poem)
* ''Morrien's Bitch'' by Janet Fox
* ''Agbewe's Sword'' by Charles R. Saunders
* ''Jane Saint's Travails (Part One)'' by Josephine Saxton
* ''The Sorrows of Witches'' by Margaret St. Clair
* ''Falcon Blood'' by Andre Norton
* ''The Rape Patrol'' by Michele Belling
* '''[[Bones for Dulath]] by Megan Lindholm'''
* ''Northern Chess'' by Tanith Lee
* ''The Woman Who Loved the Moon'' by Elizabeth A. Lynn
* ''Additional Reading'' an essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Susan Wood
==Editions==
* a US paperback edition from DAW Books in December 1979 with ISBN 0879975032, #364 in DAW Collectors series.
** a Canadian edition around the same time and with the same ISBN from DAW Books / New American Library of Canada
* a later reprint, possibly 1984? with ISBN 0879979704. There is a later reprint with a black font instead of white and "World Fantasy Award winning anthology" printed above the title. These could be the same.
==Translations==
* Dutch translation in 1982 from Gradivus SF with the title ''Amazone'' (cover and spine title) or ''Amazones'' (title page). ISBN 9063175639 (paperback), translated by Rie Neehus.
* German translation from Bastei Lübbe with the title ''Amazonen!'', translated by Andrea Dorfmüller.
* Italian translation in 1987 from Fanucci with the title ''Amazzoni ed Eroine. L'heroic fantasy al femminile'', translated by Maria Teresa Tenore.
* Norwegian (Bokmål) translation in 1986 from Bok og Magasinforlaget / Bokklubben Nova with the title ''Amasoner''. Paperback. The editor's name is printeda as "Salomonsen" in the cover.
===International covers===
<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Nl-amazons.jpg|Dutch
Image:Amazonen anth.jpg|German
Image:It amaz.jpg|Italian
Image:Amasoner.jpg|Norwegian</gallery>
{{KiVandien}}
==References==
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[[Category:Books]]
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[[Image:Amazons.jpg|thumb|Reprint cover for Amazons! by [[Michael Whelan]].]]
'''Amazons!''' is an anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson first published in 1979. It features cover art and frontispiece art by [[Michael Whelan]]. The anthology won the 1980 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection <ref>http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/1980.html 1980 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees</ref> and was followed by a second volume, ''Amazons II'' in 1982. Amazons! was the first commercial publication to feature a [[Megan Lindholm]] story, the [[Windsingers' Quartet|Ki and Vandien]] short [[Bones for Dulath]].
==Contents==
* ''Amazons'' by Melanie Kaye (poem)
* ''Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage'' by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
* ''The Dreamstone'' by C. J. Cherryh
* ''Wolves of Nakesht'' by Janrae Frank
* ''Woman of the White Waste'' by T. J. Morgan
* ''T'he Death of Augusta'' by Emily Brontë edited by Joanna Russ (poem)
* ''Morrien's Bitch'' by Janet Fox
* ''Agbewe's Sword'' by Charles R. Saunders
* ''Jane Saint's Travails (Part One)'' by Josephine Saxton
* ''The Sorrows of Witches'' by Margaret St. Clair
* ''Falcon Blood'' by Andre Norton
* ''The Rape Patrol'' by Michele Belling
* '''[[Bones for Dulath]] by Megan Lindholm'''
* ''Northern Chess'' by Tanith Lee
* ''The Woman Who Loved the Moon'' by Elizabeth A. Lynn
* ''Additional Reading'' an essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Susan Wood
==Editions==
* a US paperback edition from DAW Books in December 1979 with ISBN 0879975032, #364 in DAW Collectors series.
** a Canadian edition around the same time and with the same ISBN from DAW Books / New American Library of Canada
* a later reprint, possibly 1984? with ISBN 0879979704. There is a later reprint with a black font instead of white and "World Fantasy Award winning anthology" printed above the title. These could be the same.
==Translations==
* Dutch translation in 1982 from Gradivus SF with the title ''Amazone'' (cover and spine title) or ''Amazones'' (title page). ISBN 9063175639 (paperback), translated by Rie Neehus.
* German translation from Bastei Lübbe with the title ''Amazonen!'', translated by Andrea Dorfmüller.
* Italian translation in 1987 from Fanucci with the title ''Amazzoni ed Eroine. L'heroic fantasy al femminile'', translated by Maria Teresa Tenore.
* Norwegian (Bokmål) translation in 1986 from Bok og Magasinforlaget / Bokklubben Nova with the title ''Amasoner''. Paperback. The editor's name is printeda as "Salomonsen" in the cover.
===International covers===
<gallery perrow="5">
Image:Nl-amazons.jpg|Dutch
Image:Amazonen anth.jpg|German
Image:It amaz.jpg|Italian
Image:Amasoner.jpg|Norwegian</gallery>
{{KiVandien}}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Books]]
__NOTOC__
