Esther Friesner

Life

Career

Awards

Nebula Awards and Nominations

• 1993- “All Vows”, published by Asimov’s Magazine, Nominated for Best Short Story
• 1995- “Jesus at the Bat” published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nominated for Best Novelette 1995
• 1995- “Death and the Librarian” published by Asimov’s Magazine, Winner, Best Short story
• 1996- “A Birthday” published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winner, Best Short Story
• 1999- “How to Make Unicorn Pie” published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nominated for Best Novelette
•  2001- Toastmaster for World Science Fiction Convention 2001
• 2006- “Helen Remembers the Stork Club”, published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nominated for Best Short Story of 2006

  Locus Awards

• 2006: “The Fraud” — novelette — 24th place
• 2006: “Last Man Standing” — novelette — 17th place
• 2006: “Helen Remembers the Stork Club” — short story — 15th place
•  2000: “How to Make Unicorn Pie” — novelette — 14th place
• 1999: “Brown Dust” — novelette — 16th place
• 1996: “A Birthday” — short story — 4th place
• 1996: Chicks in Chainmail — anthology — 19th place
• 1993: “All Vows” — short story — 17th place
• 1989: Druid's Blood — fantasy novel — 13th place
• 1987: New York by Knight — fantasy novel — 19th place

  Other Awards and Nominations

• James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award — for SF/F that explores and expands the roles of women and men, juried
• * 1999: “In the Realms of Dragons” — long list
• Asimov's Reader Poll — for stories, poems, and art published by Asimov's, polled by readers
• * 2001: “The Shunned Trailer” — short story — 10th place
• * 1995: “Death and the Librarian” — short story — 2nd place
• * 1994: “'White!' Said Fred” — short story — 3rd place
• * 1993: “All Vows” — short story — 2nd place
• ·Gaylactic Spectrum Awards — for SF/F/H on GLBT themes, voted by members of Gaylactic Network
• * 2000: “Chanoyu” — short fiction — nomination
• HOMer Awards — for SF/F works, voted by members of SF/F forum on CompuServe
• * 2000: “Chanoyu” — novelette — nomination
• * 2000: “How to Make Unicorn Pie” — novelette — nomination

  Novels

• Harlot's Ruse
• The Silver Mountain
• Druid's Blood
• Yesterday We Saw Mermaids
• Split Heirs with Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Wishing Season
• The Sherwood Game
• Child of the Eagle: A Myth of Rome
• Playing with Fire
• Knock on Wood
• E.Godz with Robert Asprin
• Temping Fate
• Threads and Flames

1. The Psalms Of Herod
2. The Sword Of Mary

1. Mustapha and His Wise Dog
2. Spells of Mortal Weaving
3. The Witchwood Cradle
4. The Water King's Laughter

1. Here Be Demons
2. Demon Blues
3. Hooray For Hellywood

1. Gnome Man's Land
2. Harpy High
3. Unicorn U

1. Majyk by Accident
2. Majyk by Hook Or Crook
3. Majyk by Design

• Men in Black II

1. New York by Knight
2. Elf Defense
3. Sphynxes Wild

1. Nobody's Princess
2. Nobody's Prize
3. Sphinx's Princess
4. Sphinx's Queen
5. Spirit's Princess
6. Spirit's Chosen
7. Deception's Princess
8. Deception's Pawn

• #11 Prisoner of Cabin 13
• #22 Witchopoly

• Warchild, #7 in series
• To Storm Heaven #46 in numbered series

  Short fiction

• It's Been Fun
• Up The Wall & Other Tales of King Arthur and His Knights
• Death and the Librarian and Other Stories

• "Write When You Get Work"
• "Godgifu and Aelfgifu"
• "Simpson's Lesser Sphynx"
• "But Wait! There's More!" with Walter J. Stutzman
• "The Jester's Tale"
• "Primary"
• "The Death of Nimuë"
• "The Monk's Tale"
• "A Friendly Game of Crola"
• "The Sailor's Bride"
• "Billingsgate Molly"
• "Dragonet"
• "Taverna"
• "The Old Club Tie"
• "The Apothecary's Tale"
• "Honeycomb"
• "A Winter's Night"
• "A New Chantey"
• "An Eye for the Ladies"
• "Wake-Up Call"
• "Black Butterflies"
• "The Houri's Mirror"
• "Do I Dare to Ask Your Name?"
• "The Doo-Wop Never Dies: A Christmas Fable"
• "Poe White Trash"
• "Articles of Faith"
• "The Weavers"
• Cthulhu Mythos series:
• * "Love's Eldritch Ichor"
• "In the Can"
• "Sweet, Savage Sorcerer"
• "Up the Wall"
• "The Curse of Psamlahkithotep"
• "Saint Willibald's Dragon"
• "Whammy"
• "A Matter of Taste"
• "Blunderbore"
• "Mad at the Academy"
• "Ecce Hominid"
• "The Shoemaker and the Elves"
• "The Whiskaway Children and the Big Bang"
• "Tunnel Vision"
• "Claim-Jumpin' Woman, You Got A Stake in My Heart"
• "Pride and Prescience"
• "A Little Learning"
• "Told You So"
• "Such a Deal"
• "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
• "Her American Cousin"
• "Split Heirs" with Lawrence Watt-Evans
• "Dead Ringer" with Walter J. Stutzman
• "All Vows"
• "Puss"
• Riverworld series:
• * "Legends"
• "The Blood-Ghoul of Scarsdale"
• "You Can't Make an Omelet"
• "Jane's Fighting Ships"
• "Five-Finger Exercise"
• "Three Queens"
• "Sugar Daddy"
• "Baby Face"
• "Lowlifes"
• "One Quiet Day in the Suburbs"
• "'White!' Said Fred"
• "The Broad in the Bronze Bra"
• "Titus!"
• "Royal Tiff Yields Face of Jesus!"
• "Bargaining Chip"
• "It's a Gift"
• "Two Lovers, Two Gods, and a Fable"
• "Jesus at the Bat"
• "A Beltaine and Suspenders"
• "Patterns"
• "Death and the Librarian"
• "In the Garden"
• "Le Roi S'amuse"
• "Goldie, Lox, and the Three Excalibearers"
• "Chance"
• "Down by the Old Mainstream"
• "Un tour de cochon"
• "A Pig's Tale"
• "A Few Good Menehune"
• "A Birthday"
• "The Way to a Man's Heart"
• "Tea"
• "And Thereby Hangs"
• "A Life in the Theatre"
• "Sparrow"
• "The Strange Case of Ludwig the Unspeakable"
• "Moonlight in Vermont"
• "Death Swatch"
• "That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb"
• "Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own"
• "Silent Love"
• "Lonelyhearts"
• "King of the Cyber Trifles"
• "Prey"
• "Miss Thing"
• "What Really Killed the Dinosaurs"
• "No Bigger Than My Thumb"
• "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride"
• "True Believer"
• "Claim-Jumpin' Woman Got a Stake in My Heart"
• "Won't You Take Me Dancing?"
• "Mortal Things"
• "To Storm Heaven"
• "A Big Hand for the Little Lady"
• "The Littlest Maenad"
• "Mrs. Lurie and the Rapture"
• "How It All Began"
• "Twelve-Steppe Program"
• "A Hamster of No Importance" with Walter J. Stutzman
• "Brown Dust"
• "Ivy"
• "In the Realm of Dragons"
• "Totally Camelot"
• "Chestnut Street"
• "An Old Man's Summer"
• "Repro Man" with Anne Elizabeth Stutzman
• "Love, Crystal and Stone"
• "Fashion Victim"
• "How to Make Unicorn Pie"
• "Jolene's Motel"
• "Chanoyu"
• "Case #285B"
• "Sea-Section"
• Zoli of the Brazen Shield series:

1. "Cross CHILDREN Walk" aka "Cross Children Walk"
2. "Troll by Jury"

• "Miranda's Muse"
• "Big Hair"
• "Hallowmass"
• "The Shunned Trailer"
• "Cora"
• "Gunsel and Gretel"
• "Auntie Elspeth's Halloween Story, or the Gourd, the Bad and the Ugly"
• "Werotica"
• "Came the Dawn"
• "Ilion"
• "Labor Relations"
• "Men in the Rain"
• "Grain"
• "Just Another Cowboy"
• "In Days of Old"
• "Why I Want to Come to Brewer College"
• "Homework"
• "I Killed Them in Vegas"
• "Giants in the Earth"
• "Au Purr"
• "The Dead Don't Waddle"
• "Johnny Beansprout"
• "Child's Play"
• "Last Man Standing"
• "Marriage a la Modred"
• "The Fraud"
• "Cook's Turing"
• "The Beau and the Beast"
• "First, Catch Your Elephant"
• "One for the Record"
• "Helen Remembers The Stork Club"
• "Thunderbolt"
• "Abductio Ad Absurdum"
• "The Really Big Sleep"
• "An Autumn Butterfly"
• "Benny Comes Home"
• "Cubby Grumbles Makes a Change"
• "Crumbs"
• "The Wedding of Wylda Serene"
• "If Looks Could Kill"
• "Seeking the Master"
• "A Sacred Institution"
• "At These Prices"
• "Roomies"
• "The Bones of Mammoth Malone"
• "Stocks and Bondage"
• "Edra's Arrow"
• "A Rosé for Emily"
• "Home for the Holidays"
• "In a Dark Wood, Dreaming"
• "How Thorvald the Bloody-Minded Saved Christmas"
• "The Face Is Familiar"
• "You Got Served"
• "Mummy Knows Best"
• "Gut Feeling"
• "Isn't That Special"
• "No Children, No Pets"
• "Long in the Tooth"
• "The One That Got Away"
• "Rutger and Baby Do Jotenheim"
• "Dance with the Devil"

  Anthologies (edited)

1. Chicks in Chainmail
2. Did You Say Chicks?!
3. Chicks 'n Chained Males
4. The Chick is in the Mail
5. Turn the Other Chick
6. Chicks and Balances

• Chicks Ahoy! Omnibus of first three volumes

1. Witch Way to the Mall
2. Strip Mauled
3. Fangs for the Mammaries

Poems

• "The Shield-Maiden's Honeymoon"
• "Chivalry"
• "A Gaming Son"
• "The Vampire of Gretna Green"
• "A Short Slew of SF Clerihews"
• "More SF Clerihews"
• "Yet More SF Clerihews"
• "The Sincere Symbiote"
• "Spell for a Nuclear Witch"
• "Who Made the Stew on Betelgeuse II?"
• "Cat-Tech-Ism"
• "Food for Thought"
• "Confessio"
• "The Hobbyist"
• "Lovers"
• "For Sale: One Moonbase, Never Used"