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Sword Stone Table

Old Legends, New Voices

by Swapna Krishna
Jenn Northington
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From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by:
Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • S. Zainab Williams
 
A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads pick!
Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and the dignity of his people. There are stories set in Gilded Age Chicago, '80s New York, twenty-first century Singapore, and space; there are lesbian lady knights, Arthur and Merlin reborn in the modern era for a second chance at saving the world and falling in love—even a coffee shop AU.
 
Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.
Audiobook Table of Contents:
"The Once and Future Qadi" by Ausma Zehanat Khan, read by Ali Nasser
"Passing Fair and Young" by Roshani Chokshi, read by Soneela Nankani
"How, after Long Fighting, Galehaut WasOvercome by Lancelot Yet Was Not Slainand Made Great Speed to Yield to Friendship;Or, Galehaut, the Knight of the Forfeit" by Daniel M. Lavery, read by Em Grossland
"I Being Young and Foolish" by Nisi Shawl, read by Amani Starnes
"The Bladesmith Queen" by Sarah MacLean, read by Lena Lee
"Do, By All Due Means" by Sive Doyle, read by Jeena Yi
"Mayday" by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by Joel Froomkin
"Heartbeat" by Waubgeshig Rice, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett
"Jack and Brad and the Magician" by Anthony Rapp, read by the author
"The Quay Stone" by S. Zainab Williams, read by Shanta Parasuraman
"Black Diamond" by Alex Segura, read by Omar Leyva
"Flat White" by Jessica Plummer, read by Laya Lewis
"Once (Them) & Future (Us)" by Preeti Chhibber, read by Deepti Gupta
"A Shadow in Amber" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chipe
"White Hempen Sleeves" by Ken Liu, read by Dani Martineck
"Little Green Men" by Alexander Chee, read by Vikas Adam

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    July 13, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780593415023
      • File size: 428627 KB
      • Duration: 14:52:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 5, 2021
      Krishna and Northington bring together 16 diverse retellings of Arthurian legend to create an anthology of breathtaking breadth, depth, and creativity. Daniel M. Lavery’s “How, After Long Fighting, Galehaut Was Overcome by Lancelot Yet Was Not Slain and Made Great Speed to Yield to Friendship; Or, Galehaut, the Knight of the Forfeit” is an utter revelation that casts the concept of chivalry in a new light. Other standouts include Waubgeshig Rice’s moving, gorgeous “Heartbeat,” about an Anishinaabe preteen named Art who unearths a stone to find long-hidden ancestral drums; Jessica Plummer’s hilarious “Flat White,” in which the Lady of Shalott acts as Lancelot’s barista; Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s haunting, understated “A Shadow in Amber,” which follows a nameless narrator as she obsesses over Lancelot, whose illegally trafficked memories she pays to experience; and Alexander Chee’s “Little Green Men,” a Mars-set exploration of reality TV celebrity culture filtered through “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” There isn’t a bad story in the bunch, and the anthology offers such a variety of style, theme, and genre that die-hard Arthurian fans and more casual readers will be equally delighted. This is a must-read. Agent: Kate McKean, Howard Morhaim Literary. (July)
      Correction: An earlier version of this review misidentified the number of stories contained in the collection.

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