![]() Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction: ![]() ![]() M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.Īlso included are original stories of dangerous women-heroines and villains alike-by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. Publisher’s DescriptionĪll new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in DANGEROUS WOMEN include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities-including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. ![]() in hardcover on December 3, 2013.Ĭlick here to read excerpts of the stories in the anthology, written by many of today’s leading science fiction and fantasy authors (excerpts provided by Tor). “Virgins” is a novella, part of the Outlander series, and is included in the anthology DANGEROUS WOMEN, edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, which was released in the U.S.A. ![]() The story is set in 1740, in France, in which Jamie Fraser (aged nineteen) and his friend Ian Murray (aged twenty) become young mercenaries. ![]()
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