None of the stories here rise to that level, and you couldn't mistake any for literary fiction. I could say the same of classic literary short stories after having read them once years before. When I recently picked up again an anthology of stories by Isaac Asimov after decades, I immediately remembered the content of most from just their title, and of many others just from the first few paragraphs. To be honest none were greatly memorable. There are 15 fantasy short stories here in all. Saunders, Jennifer Roberson, Diana Paxson." Others on the contents page who'd later gain prominence include Emma Bull (her first sale) and Charles de Lint. On the back it boasts the appearance of "Glen Cook, Phyllis Ann Karr, Charles R. So when the first Sword and Sorceress was published in 1984, I grabbed it, and it was love at first sight of the cover. And yes, little girls need them, and teens, and even young women. Once upon a time, when I was a little girl, in the dark days pre-Buffy, it was hard to find a female action hero.
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