Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger - and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate - and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.Table of Content and "Boojum and " by Elizabeth Bear and u0026 Sarah Monette and "Castor on Troubled Waters and " by Rhys Hughes and "I Begyn as I Mean To Go On and " by Kage Baker and "Avast, Abaft! and " by Howard Waldrop and "Elegy to Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores, And Righteous Thieves and " by Kelly Barnhill and "Skillet and Saber and " by Justin Howe and "The Nymph's Child and " by Carrie Vaughn and "68? 07′ 15 and "N, 31? 36′ 44 and "W and " by Conrad Williams and "Ironface and " by Michael Moorcock and "Pirates Solutions and " by Katherine Sparrow and "We Sleep on Thousand Waves beneath the Stars and " by Brendan Connell and "Voyage of the Iguana and " by Steve Aylett and "Pirates of the Saura Sea and " by David Freer and u0026 Eric Flint and "A Cold Day in Hell and " By Paul Batteiger and "The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth and " by Rachel Swirsky and "Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake and " by Naomi Novik and "The Whale below and " by Jayme Lynn Blaschke and "Beyond the Seagate ff the Scholar-Pirate of Sarskoe and " by Garth Nix-