Three highly-respected anthologists have gathered together 25 original stories to capture the myth and magic of Excalibur. Spanning the past, present and future, each story presents a unique, incisive interpretation of that legendary sword.

Edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg and Edward E. Kramer.

Contents:

• The Question of the Sword by Jane Yolen
• The God-Sword by Diana L. Paxson
• Lassorio by Eric Lustbader
• Controlling the Sword by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Surgeon’s Steel by Diana Gabaldon
• Prayer of the Knight of the Sword by Nancy Holder
• Echoes of the One Sword by T. Winter-Damon
• Grass Dancer by Owl Goingback
• All We Know of Heaven by Peter Crowther
• Passing by Charles de Lint
• Nights of the Round Table by Lawrence Schimel
• Here There Be Dragons? by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Goldie, Lox, and the Three Excalibearers by Esther M. Friesner
• Silver, Stone, and Steel by Judith Tarr
• St. Paul’s Churchyard, New Year’s Day by Richard Lee Byers
• The Other Scabbard by Brad Linaweaver
• Hope’s Edge by Daniel H. Scheltema
• The Waking Dream by J.M. Morgan
• The Scout, the Slugger and the Stripper by Randy Miller
• The Weapon by Ardath Mayhar
• The Sword in the Net by Brad Strickland
• Once and Future by Terry Tappouni
• Once and Future by Mercedes Lackey
• Sword Practice by Jody Lynn Nye
• Where Bestowed by Susan Dexter
• Demon Sword by Bill Fawcett
• Troubled Waters by Susan Shwartz
• Literary Cubism Saves the Universe by Joe Haldeman
• Duty by Gary Gygax
• The Epilogue of the Sword by Darrell Schweitzer