Dangerous Women

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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2013

Copyright © George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois 2013

Dangerous Women / Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.

“Some Desperado” Copyright © 2013 by Joe Abercrombie

“My Heart Is Either Broken” Copyright © 2013 by Megan Abbott

“Nora’s Song” Copyright © 2013 by Cecelia Holland

“The Hands That Are Not There” Copyright © 2013 by Melinda Snodgrass

“Bombshells” Copyright © 2013 by Jim Butcher

“Raisa Stepanova” Copyright © 2013 by Carrie Vaughn

“Wrestling Jesus” Copyright © 2013 by Joe R. Lansdale

“Neighbors” Copyright © 2013 by Megan Lindholm

“I Know How to Pick ’Em” Copyright © 2013 by Lawrence Block

“Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” Copyright © 2013 by Brandon Sanderson

“A Queen in Exile” Copyright © 2013 by Sharon Kay Penman

“The Girl in the Mirror” Copyright © 2013 by Lev Grossman

“Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” copyright © 2013 by Nancy Kress

“City Lazarus” Copyright © 2013 by Diana Rowland

“Virgins” Copyright © 2013 by Diana Gabaldon

“Hell Hath No Fury” Copyright © 2013 by Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Pronouncing Doom” Copyright © 2013 by S. M. Stirling

“Name the Beast” Copyright © 2013 by Sam Sykes

“Caretakers” Copyright © 2013 by Pat Cadigan

“Lies My Mother Told Me” Copyright © 2013 by Caroline Spector

“The Princess and the Queen” Copyright © 2013 by George R. R. Martin

The author of each individual story asserts their moral rights, including the right be identified as the author of their work

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007549405

Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780007549412

Version: 2018-06-20