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

A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads pick!

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, 21st-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.

Audiobook table of contents:

• "The Once and Future Qadi" by Ausma Zehanat Khan, read by Ali Nasser
• "Passing Fair and Young" by Roshani Chokshi, read by Soneela Nankani
• "How, After Long Fighting, Galehaut Was Overcome by Lancelot Yet Was Not Slain and Made Great Speed to Yield to Friendship; Or, Galehaut, the Knight of the Forfeit" by Daniel M. Lavery, read by Em Grossland
• "I Being Young and Foolish" by Nisi Shawl, read by Amani Starnes
• "The Bladesmith Queen" by Sarah MacLean, read by Lena Lee
• "Do, by All Due Means" by Sive Doyle, read by Jeena Yi
• "Mayday" by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by Joel Froomkin
• "Heartbeat" by Waubgeshig Rice, read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett
• "Jack and Brad and the Magician" by Anthony Rapp, read by the author
• "The Quay Stone" by S. Zainab Williams, read by Shanta Parasuraman
• "Black Diamond" by Alex Segura, read by Omar Leyva
• "Flat White" by Jessica Plummer, read by Laya Lewis
• "Once (Them) & Future (Us)" by Preeti Chhibber, read by Deepti Gupta
• "A Shadow in Amber" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chipe
• "White Hempen Sleeves" by Ken Liu, read by Dani Martineck
• "Little Green Men" by Alexander Chee, read by Vikas Adam