Tanith Lee (1945-2017) hardly needs any introduction. She was a winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards and was named a Grand Master by the World Horror Convention in 2009. Among her 100+ novels and short stories, she wrote a number of sword & sorcery tales, including a pair that tell the story of the swordswoman Jaisel. They first appeared in the two volumes of Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s essential Amazons anthologies.
Jaisel’s ancestry can be productively traced to Mary Shelley (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus), Nathaniel Hawthorne (“Rappaccini's Daughter”) and J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King), all focused through the prism of Lee’s own extraordinary imagination.
“Northern Chess” | Amazons!, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 1979 | short story
“Southern Lights” | Amazons II, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, 1982 | short story
Internet Speculative Data Base entry
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry
Both of these stories, along with fourteen other of Lee's sword & sorcery stories, are collected in The Empress of Dreams, published by DMR Books
Entry by Christopher Rowe
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