black-sailsSwashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.

We’ve all seen Pirates of the Caribbean, what’s not to love about being a pirate?  Other than scurvy and unwanted attention from very lonely and desperate men.

Fast Ships, Black Sails is available now from Night Shade Books.

Contents: 
Introduction: “Raising Anchor” – Ann & Jeff VanderMeer 
“Boojum” – Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette 
“Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake” – Naomi Novik 
“Avast, Abaft!” – Howard Waldrop 
“I Begyn as I Mean to Go On” – Kage Baker 
“Castor on Troubled Waters” – Rhys Hughes 
“Elegy for Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores and Righteous Thieves” – Kelly Barnhill 
“Skillet and Saber” – Justin Howe 
“The Nymph’s Child” – Carrie Vaughn 
“68˚06′N, 31˚40′W” – Conrad Williams 
“Pirate Solutions” – Katherine Sparrow 
“We Sleep on a Thousand Waves” – Brendan Connell 
“Pirates of the Suara Sea” – David Freer & Eric Flint 
“Voyage of the Iguana” – Steve Aylett 
“Iron Face” – Michael Moorcock 
“A Cold Day in Hell” – Paul Batteiger 
“Captain Blackheart Wentworth” – Rachel Swirsky 
“The Whale Below” – Jayme Lynn Blaschke 
“Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarskoe” – Garth Nix