253 - Trailertrash Annie - short story by Peter N.235 - The Island - short story by Whitt Pond.221 - Harm None - short story by Dean H.208 - Heavy Sybil - short story by Bob Beideman.191 - The Nice House - short story by L.176 - Endemoniada - short story by William O'Donnell.163 - Her Place - short story by Joel Ross.149 - Hattie's Head - short story by Kelli Campbell.125 - Stadium Square - short story by Eric Gregg.115 - That Old Black Magic - short story by John R.97 - Le Bête Est Morte - short story by Nicholas Kaufmann.80 - Madly, Deeply - short story by Greg Kishbaugh.68 - As Promised - short story by Walt Jarvis.57 - Spiders Grace All of Me - short story by Michelle Scalise.47 - A Dichotomy of Belief - short story by Michael Oliveri.27 - Six Guns & Six Spells - short story by Paul Victor Wargelin.10 - The Power Lunch - short story by Janet L.1 - The Child's Tale - short story by Carole Nomarhas.Introduction: Something Wiccan This Way Comes (Bell, Book & Beyond: An Anthology of Witchy Tales) - essay by P.Foreword: Losing One's Virginity (Bell, Book & Beyond: An Anthology of Witchy Tales) - essay by S.Barker's latest builds on her decades-long study of war and its impact on individual lives-and it is nothing short of magnificent. She offers nuanced, complex portraits of characters and stories familiar from mythology, which, seen from Briseis's perspective, are rife with newfound revelations. With breathtaking historical detail and luminous prose, Pat Barker brings the teeming world of the Greek camp to vivid life. Keenly observant and cooly unflinching about the daily horrors of war, Briseis finds herself in an unprecedented position to observe the two men driving the Greek forces in what will become their final confrontation, deciding the fate, not only of Briseis's people, but also of the ancient world at large.īriseis is just one among thousands of women living behind the scenes in this war-the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead-all of them erased by history. Achilles refuses to fight in protest, and the Greeks begin to lose ground to their Trojan opponents. When Agamemnon, the brutal political leader of the Greek forces, demands Briseis for himself, she finds herself caught between the two most powerful of the Greeks. Briseis becomes Achilles's concubine, a prize of battle, and must adjust quickly in order to survive a radically different life, as one of the many conquered women who serve the Greek army. She was queen of one of Troy's neighboring kingdoms, until Achilles, Greece's greatest warrior, sacked her city and murdered her husband and brothers.
In the Greek camp, another woman watches and waits for the war's outcome: Briseis. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen woman-Helen. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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