Dangerous Women Audiobook (Free)

New and original to the volume, the 21 stories in Harmful Women include work by 12 New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities-including a fresh “Outlander” tale by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, about Dangerous Women the huge civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two decades before the occasions of A Game of Thrones.

Also included are original stories of dangerous women–heroines and villains alike–by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Stop, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many more.

Writes Gardner Dozois in his Launch, “Here you’ll find no hapless victims who all the stand by position whimpering in dread while the male hero battles the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you wish to tie these ladies to the railroad tracks, you’ll look for you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will find sword-wielding ladies warriors, intrepid females fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, fatal female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, feminine wizards, hard-living Poor Girls, feminine bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, feminine Private Researchers, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send out hundreds to grisly fatalities, daring dragonriders, and so many more.”

Tales and Narrators (to be able of appearance):

“Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie; Read by Stana Katic

“My Heart Is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott; Go through by Jake Weber

“Nora’s Tune” by Cecelia Holland; Go through by Harriet Walter

“The Hands THAT AREN’T There” by Melinda Snodgrass; Read by Jonathan Frakes

“Bombshells” by Jim Butcher; Browse by Emily Rankin

“Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn; Read by Inna Korobkina

“Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale; Browse by Scott Brick

“Neighbors” by Megan Lindholm; Browse by Lee Meriwether

“I Know How exactly to Pick ’Em” by Lawrence Stop; Read by Jake Weber

“Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” by Brandon Sanderson; Read by Claudia Dark

“A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman; Browse by Harriet Walter

“THE LADY in the Reflection” by Lev Grossman; Go through by Sophie Turner

“Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress; Go through by Janis Ian

“Town Lazarus” by Diana Rowland; Go through by Scott Brick

“Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon; Go through by Allan Scott-Douglas

“Pronouncing Doom” by S.M. Stirling; Go through by Stana Katic

“Name the Beast” by Sam Sykes; Read by Claudia Dark

“Caregivers” by Pat Cadigan; Read by Janis Ian

“Lies My Mother Told Me” by Caroline Spector; Read by Maggi-Meg Reed

“Hell Hath Zero Fury” by Sherilynn Kenyon; Read by Jenna Lamia

“The Princess as well as the Queen” by George R. R. Martin; Browse by Iain Glen

The introduction by Gardner Dozois is read by Fred Sanders as well as the interstitial author biographies are read by Karen Dotrice.