Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices Paperback – July 13, 2021 by Swapna Krishna

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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 WilliamsA 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.

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