All new and original to the volume, the 21 tales in Harmful Women include work by 12 NY Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities-including a new “Outlander” tale by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman occur the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance from the Dragons, about Harmful Women the huge civil battle that tore Westeros apart nearly two decades before the events of A Game of Thrones.

Also included are original stories of dangerous women–heroines and villains alike–by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many more.

Creates Gardner Dozois in his Intro, “Here you’ll find no hapless victims who all the stand by position whimpering in dread while the man hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you wish to tie these ladies to the railroad paths, you’ll get you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will see sword-wielding females warriors, intrepid ladies fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, dangerous feminine serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, feminine wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, feminine Private Researchers, stern female dangling judges, haughty queens who guideline countries and whose jealousies and ambitions send out thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more.”

Stories and Narrators (in order of appearance):

“Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie; Go through by Stana Katic

“My Center Is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott; Browse by Jake Weber

“Nora’s Track” by Cecelia Holland; Go through by Harriet Walter

“The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass; Browse by Jonathan Frakes

“Bombshells” by Jim Butcher; Go through by Emily Rankin

“Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn; Go through by Inna Korobkina

“Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale; Browse by Scott Brick

“Neighbours” by Megan Lindholm; Read by Lee Meriwether

“I Know How exactly to Choose ’Em” by Lawrence Block; Go through by Jake Weber

“Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” by Brandon Sanderson; Read by Claudia Black

“A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman; Read by Harriet Walter

“The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman; Read by Sophie Turner

“Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress; Browse by Janis Ian

“Town Lazarus” by Diana Rowland; Go through by Scott Brick

“Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon; Browse by Allan Scott-Douglas

“Pronouncing Doom” by S.M. Stirling; Go through by Stana Katic

“Name the Beast” by Sam Sykes; Read by Claudia Black

“Caregivers” by Pat Cadigan; Browse by Janis Ian

“Lies My Mother EXPLAINED” by Caroline Spector; Go through by Maggi-Meg Reed

“Hell Hath Zero Fury” by Sherilynn Kenyon; Go through by Jenna Lamia

“The Princess as well as the Queen” by George R. R. Martin; Go through by Iain Glen

The introduction by Gardner Dozois is read by Fred Sanders as well as the interstitial author biographies are read by Karen Dotrice.