Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- THE WASHINGTON POST . NPR

From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings.

Featuring stories by- Alexander Chee . Preeti Chhibber . Roshani Chokshi . Sive Doyle . Maria Dahvana Headley . Ausma Zehanat Khan . Daniel M. Lavery . Ken Liu . Sarah MacLean . Silvia Moreno-Garcia . Jessica Plummer . Anthony Rapp . Waubgeshig Rice . Alex Segura . Nisi Shawl . S. Zainab Williams

Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you’ll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and the dignity of his people. There are stories set in Gilded Age Chicago, ’80s New York, twenty-first century Singapore, and space; there are lesbian lady knights, Arthur and Merlin reborn in the modern era for a second chance at saving the world and falling in love-even a coffee shop AU.

Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Imprint: Vintage US/RH
Publication date: 13/07/2021