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'''Esther Friesner''' (also known as Esther M. Friesner) is a fantasy author best known for her humorous works, though she spans the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]. Friesner was named Outstanding New Fantasy Writer by Romantic Times in 1986. She won the Skylark Award in 1994. She has been nominated a number of times for the [[Hugo Award]] and [[Nebula Award]], winning the [[Nebula Award]] for Best Short Story in 1995 and 1996 for, respectively, "Death and the Librarian" and "A Birth Day". She has also edited a large number of anthologies, perhaps most famously the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series.
She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, two rambunctious cats, and a fluctuating population of hamsters.
Her website can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20060927154935/http://www.sff.net/people/e.friesner/ here].
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* Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms
** ''Mustapha and His Wise Dog'', 1985
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* ''[[Men in Black]] II'' ([[Novelization]]), 2002
The [[Historical Fiction]] series ''Princesses of Myth'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20180806112128/http://princessesofmyth.com/
* ''Nobody's Princess'', 2007
* ''Nobody's Prize'', 2008
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* ''Druid's Blood'', 1988
* ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids'', 1992
* ''Split Heirs'' (with [[
* ''Wishing Season'', 1993
* ''The Sherwood Game'', 1995
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Antholgies edited
* ''Alien Pregnant by Elvis!''
* Chicks in Chainmail
** ''Chicks in Chainmail''
** ''Did You Say Chicks?!''
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** ''Turn the Other Chick''
* Witches
** ''Witch Way to the Mall''
** ''Strip Maul''
* Vampires
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* [[Action Girl]] - ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, several characters in the ''Majyk'' series, Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''
* [[After the End]] - Implied to be the setting of the ''Becca of Wiserways'' books.
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] - in ''The Sherwood Game''.
* [[Deconstruction]] - a number of her ''Chicks In Chainmail'' stories deconstruct the genre comically. ''Split Heirs'' deconstructs ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'' stories. All Genie tropes in ''Wishing Season''.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]] - A man offered his four
* [[Forbidden Zone]] - Becca of Wiserways series.
* [[Freeing the Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
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* [[Good Old Ways]] - Becca of Wiserways.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* [[Ivy League for Everyone]] - ''Unicorn U'' takes place (mostly) at Princeton after the main character gets accepted there.
* [[Jackass Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season'' ▼
** The IRS agent sicced on the King of Elfhame Ultramar in ''Elf Defense'' is a Princeton grad. You can tell by the way [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|his mohawk is dyed orange and black]].
* [[Magic Ampersand]] - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
* [[Magick]] - parodied with "Majyk", and later in the series ''"Magique"''
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* [[Our Angels Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Pun-Based Title]] - later books in the ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, including ''Chicks 'n Chained Males'', ''The Chick Is In The Mail'' and ''Turn The Other Chick''. ''New York by Knight'', ''Elf Defense'' ''Hooray for Hellywood'', ''Split Heirs'', ''Gnome Man's Land''...
* [[Robin Hood]] - ''The Sherwood Game'' is about a [[Cyberspace]] game featuring the Robin Hood characters; it gets complicated when [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] kicks in. (Though things don't get ''really'' bad until the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] shows up.)
* [[Shout-Out]] - The village idiots in the ''Majyk'' trilogy are named [[Lawrence Watt
* [[Sinister Minister]] - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: from the very funny, pun-laden ''Majyk'' series to the post-apocalyptic [[Crapsack World]] of ''Becca of Wiserways''.
* [[Sterility Plague]] - In ''Becca of Wiserways'', some sort of unspecified [[Depopulation Bomb]] in the past has made it so that women only get their periods once per ''year''.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] - a few, often overlapping with [[Action Girl]].
* [[Talking Animal]] - A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* [[Teenage Wasteland]] - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* [[The Magic Goes Away]] - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
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