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Title: Northern Chess Title Record # 92319
Author: Tanith Lee
Date: 1979-12-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Jaisel
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: A female wandering adventurer who falls in with a company of soldiers attempting to conquer the castle where the ghost of an evil sorcerer resides, proves to be the perfect person to defeat the otherwise undefeatable villain.
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Current Tags: magic (1), haunted castle (1), medieval (1), army (1), wandering adventurer (1), female protagonist (1), curse (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1981Translated by Andrea Dorfmüller
German Schach dem Bösen
1982Translated by Rie Neehus
Dutch Schaakspel in het Noorden
2023 Portuguese Xadrez do norte

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Nomination 1980 Balrog Short Fiction

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Amazons! 1979-12-00 ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson DAW Books (DAW Collectors #364) 0-87997-503-2 / UE1503
$2.25?$: US dollar
[2]+
206
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Michael Whelan Checkmark
Amazons! 1979-12-00 ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson DAW Books / New American Library of Canada 0-87997-503-2 / UE1503
C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar
206
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Michael Whelan Checkmark
Amazonen! 1981-10-00 ed. Jessica Salmonson
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special
#24023)
3-404-24023-5
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
285
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Eric Ladd Checkmark
Amazones 1982-00-00 ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson Gradivus (Gradivus SF) 90-6317-563-9
ƒ18.90?ƒ: Dutch guilder
322
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Oliviero Berni Checkmark
Women As Demons 1989-03-00 Tanith Lee The Women's Press (The Women's Press science fiction) 0-7043-4132-8
£4.95?£: UK pound
xii+
272
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Juliette Pearce Checkmark
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology 2015-06-01 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer PM Press 978-1-62963-035-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
341
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Checkmark
Warrior Women 2015-11-17 ed. Paula Guran Prime Books 978-1-60701-468-3
$6.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Julie Dillon Checkmark
Warrior Women 2015-12-00 ed. Paula Guran Prime Books 978-1-60701-458-4
$15.95?$: US dollar
382
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Julie Dillon Checkmark
Women As Demons 2015-12-17 Tanith Lee Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-12092-1
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Empress of Dreams 2021-01-30 Tanith Lee DMR Books  
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Lauren Gornik  
The Empress of Dreams 2021-01-31 Tanith Lee DMR Books 978-1-73589-824-7
$19.99?$: US dollar
286
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Lauren Gornik  
Irmãs da revolução: antologia de ficção especulativa feminista?Irmas da revolucao: antologia de ficcao especulativa feminista
2023-04-15 ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer Editora Aleph 978-85-7657-551-1
R$90.93?R$: Brazilian real
536
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Amazons! date unknown ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson DAW Books 0-87997-970-4
$2.50?$: US dollar
206
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Michael Whelan  
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology date unknown ed. Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer PM Press 978-1-62963-035-9
$15.95?$: US dollar
341
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
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