false <![CDATA[Fast Ships, Black Sails]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255991509m/3369511.jpg 3369511 1 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&mdash;and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate&mdash;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. 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° 07' 15" N, 31° 36' 44" 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 3408869 15 10 2008 Fast Ships, Black Sails total:70|5:8|4:24|3:25|2:10|1:3| 70 234 181 28 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 19:39:02 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 19:45:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 07:55:44 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 06:39:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 12:54:42 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 16:27:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 14:39:17 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 15:15:31 -0700 2009
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