SUMMARY: Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger - and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate - and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling
Fast Ships, Black Sails
โ Scribed by Naomi Novik; Garth Nix; Elizabeth Bear; Kage Baker; Michael Moorcock; Jeff Vandermeer
- Publisher
- Diamond [distributor], Night Shade
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger - and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate - and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.
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