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Fast ships, black sails

Call Number

  • FICTION FAST (CEN)

Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Portland, Or. : Night Shade Books, 2008.

Physical Description

241 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

An anthology of original stories featuring romp through pirate-infested seas. The settings of these stories vary from the traditional 17th century Caribbean glory years of piracy to the frozen seas off colonial Boston to unnamed far future oceans to deep space itself.

Contents

  • A fascination with pirates / Boojum / Castor on troubled waters / I begyn as I mean to go on / Avast, abaft! / Elegy to Gabrielle, patron saint of healers, whores, and righteous thieves / Skillet and saber / Nymph's child / 68° 07' 15" N, 31° 36' 44" W / Ironface / Pirate solutions / We sleep on a thousand waves beneath the stars / Voyage of the iguana / Pirates of the Suara Sea / Cold day in hell / Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth / Araminta, or, the wreck of the Amphidrake / Whale below / Beyond the sea gate of the scholar - Pirates of Sarskoe

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