In the Darkness, Hunting
THE WORLD OF CHIMQUAR THE LIONHAWK
A world once destroyed by a godwar and now healing since the arrival of the young gods who imprisoned the hellgod. A world seething with danger, intrigue, and wild magic, its lands scarred by the wars waged by both men and Gods. These are the lands that Chimquar the Lionhawk travels. A woman who passes for a man. A priest. A parent. A soldier. Fighting against that which would devour her simply for chosing to live her life on its own terms.
Chimquar the Lionhawk first appeared in the World Fantasy award-winning anthology Amazons! (edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson). Now, in this collected volume of her tales, find out why Chimquar has been called the most complex character to exist in heroic fantasy and one of the first female-passing-for-male protagonists in the genre.
Had these stories gotten the attention they deserved in the 1970s they might have been recognized as ground breaking, as were the intergender characterizations in Ursula LeGuin’s Left Hand of Darkness and John Varley’s Gaea series, which were among the works that helped bring science fiction to maturity ... it was Conan who outsold the rest. The naive power of the prose was exactly what Janrae Frank had captured so perfectly, and the Chimquar stories within this context were likewise works of genius.
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
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