Edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff

Includes various types of "Battle Magic" stories. One of the stories deals with samurai thing in Japanese setting. The story is ... hmmm ... difficult to comment. I'm not going to say the story is bad or something. It's just the naming and/or transliterated words sound so strange to Japanese or at least to me. I think people won't just say daimyo did this or that. A bit of study in Japanese culture should have made the story more interesting. Other stories are not much different. I know most of the authors can do better and this anthology is, all in all, somewhat weak.

• Introduction by Larry Segriff
• The Strangeness of the Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Ladykiller by Rosemary Edghill
• The Jewel and the Demon by Lisanne Norman
• Principles of Warfare by John Helfers
• BattleMagic for Morons by John DeChancie
• The Miracle of Salamis by Lois Tilton
• Alaric's Gift by Michey Zucker Reichert
• Rite of Passage by Ed Gorman
• Bright Streets of Air by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• Hell's Bane by Jane Lindskold
• The Fatal Wager by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• 'Ware the Sleeper by Julie E. Czerneda
• A Matter of Honor by Jodrpha Sherman
• Warlord by Michelle West
• Ten for the Devil by Charles de Lint