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{{Short description|Fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson}}
{{Infobox book | 
| name = Amazons II
| title_orig =
| translator =
| image = AmazonsII.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| editor = [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]
| cover_artist = [[Michael Whelan]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = [[Fantasy fiction|Fantasy]]
| publisher = [[DAW Books]]
| release_date = 1982
| English_release_date =
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 239
| isbn = 0-87997-736-1
| congress = CPB Box no. 2892 vol. 4
| oclc = 8531231
| preceded_by = [[Amazons!]]
| followed_by =
}}

'''''Amazons II''''' is an [[anthology]] of [[fantasy]] stories, edited by [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]], with a cover by [[Michael Whelan]]. Following up her earlier anthology ''[[Amazons!]]'', it consists, like its predecessor volume, of works featuring female protagonists by mostly female authors. It was first published in paperback by [[DAW Books]] in June 1982.<ref name="ISFDB">{{isfdb title|id=35450}}</ref> "In the Lost Lands" was adapted into a [[In the Lost Lands|film of the same name]] in 2025.

==Summary==
The book collects 12 short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with an introduction by Salmonson.

==Contents==
*"Introduction: Art, History and Amazons" ([[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]])
*"For a Daughter" ([[F. M. Busby]])
*"The Battle Crow's Daughter" ([[Gillian Fitzgerald]])
*"Southern Lights" ([[Tanith Lee]])
*"Zroya's Trizub" ([[Gordon Derevanchuk]])
*"The Robber Girl" ([[Phyllis Ann Karr]])
*"Lady of the Forest End" ([[Gael Baudino|Gaèl Baudino]])
*"The Ivory Comb" ([[Eleanor Arnason]])
*"The Borders of Sabazel" ([[Lillian Stewart Carl]])
*"Who Courts a Reluctant Maiden" ([[Ardath Mayhar]])
*"The Soul Slayer" ([[Lee Killough (author)|Lee Killough]])
*"Nightwork" ([[Jo Clayton]])
*"In the Lost Lands" ([[George R. R. Martin]])

==Awards==
The collection placed nineteenth in the 1983 [[Locus Award]] poll for Best Anthology.<ref name="ISFDB"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1982 anthologies]]
[[Category:Fantasy anthologies]]
[[Category:DAW Books books]]
[[Category:Books with cover art by Michael Whelan]]

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Amazons II - Revision history

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