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=== Tropes applying to her work include: ===
* [[Action Girl]] - ''Chicks In Chainmail'' series, several characters in the ''Majyk'' series, Becca eventually becomes this in ''The Sword of Mary''
* [[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.
* [[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''.
* [[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''.
* [[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 year old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]] - A man offered his four-year-old daughter to the dragon in ''New York By Knight'', which proved to be a bad idea. This dragon was far more traditional about its sacrifices.
* [[Forbidden Zone]] - Becca of Wiserways series.
* [[Forbidden Zone]] - Becca of Wiserways series.
* [[Freeing the Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
* [[Freeing the Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
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* [[Good Old Ways]] - Becca of Wiserways.
* [[Good Old Ways]] - Becca of Wiserways.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] - Megan, the protagonist of ''Harlot's Ruse''.
* [[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''
* [[Jackass Genie]] - in ''Wishing Season''
* [[Magic Ampersand]] - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
* [[Magic Ampersand]] - the game "Palaces & Puppies" is mentioned in ''Majyk by Hook or Crook''
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* [[Our Angels Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Our Angels Are Different]] - The ''Demon'' Trilogy.
* [[Our Demons 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''
* [[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.)
* [[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-Evans|Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some [[Discworld]] figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with [[Discworld]].
* [[Shout-Out]] - The village idiots in the ''Majyk'' trilogy are named [[Lawrence Watt-Evans|Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon]], the title characters of ''Death and the Librarian'' were inspired by some [[Discworld]] figurines she had on her desk (though the story has nothing to do with [[Discworld]].
* [[Sinister Minister]] - played for comedy in ''Hooray for Hellywood'', televangelist "Sometime" Joseph Lee is in fact the demon Raleel.
* [[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''.
* [[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''.
* [[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]].
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] - a few, often overlapping with [[Action Girl]].
* [[Talking Animal]]- A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* [[Talking Animal]] - A magically-talking cat in both the ''Majyk'' series and ''Wishing Season''
* [[Teenage Wasteland]] - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* [[Teenage Wasteland]] - Becca of Wiserways encounters one.
* [[The Magic Goes Away]] - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''
* [[The Magic Goes Away]] - ''Yesterday We Saw Mermaids''

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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 here.

Her books include:

  • Chronicles of the Twelve Kingdoms
    • Mustapha and His Wise Dog, 1985
    • Spells of Mortal Weaving, 1986
    • The Witchwood Cradle, 1987
    • The Water King's Laughter, 1989
  • Demons Trilogy
    • Here Be Demons, 1988
    • Demon Blues, 1989
    • Hooray For Hellywood, 1990
  • New York by Knight Trilogy
    • New York by Knight, 1986
    • Elf Defense, 1988
    • Sphynxes Wild, 1989
  • Gnome Man's Land Trilogy
    • Gnome Man's Land, 1991
    • Harpy High, 1991
    • Unicorn U, 1992
  • Majyk Trilogy
    • Majyk by Accident, 1993
    • Majyk by Hook Or Crook, 1994
    • Majyk by Design, 1995
  • Becca of Wiserways
    • The Psalms Of Herod, 1996
    • The Sword Of Mary, 1996

Expanded Universe novels

The Historical Fiction series Princesses of Myth [1]

  • Nobody's Princess, 2007
  • Nobody's Prize, 2008
  • Sphinx's Princess, 2009
  • Sphinx's Queen, 2010
  • Spirit's Princess, publication date set for April 2012

Non-series novels

  • Harlot's Ruse, 1986
  • The Silver Mountain, 1986
  • Druid's Blood, 1988
  • Yesterday We Saw Mermaids, 1992
  • Split Heirs (with Lawrence Watt-Evans), 1993
  • Wishing Season, 1993
  • The Sherwood Game, 1995
  • Child of the Eagle, 1996
  • Playing with Fire, 1997
  • E.Godz (with Robert Asprin), 2003
  • Temping Fate, 2006
  • Threads and Flames, 2010

Short Story Collections

  • It's Been Fun
  • Up The Wall & Other Tales of King Arthur and His Knights
  • Death and the Librarian and Other Stories

Antholgies edited

  • Alien Pregnant by Elvis!
  • Chicks in Chainmail
    • Chicks in Chainmail
    • Did You Say Chicks?!
    • Chicks 'n Chained Males
    • The Chick is in the Mail
    • Turn the Other Chick
  • Witches
    • Witch Way to the Mall
    • Strip Maul
  • Vampires
    • Blood Muse
    • Fangs for the Mammaries


Esther Friesner provides examples of the following tropes:
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