Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth.

Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they were worshipped as gods. Humanity has been telling and retelling stories about the characters from Greek and Roman myth for centuries—heck, the Romans liked the Hellenic originals so much, they remade them faster than Marvel remakes Spider-Man movies. And from Virgil's Aeneid to Xena: Warrior Princess to Percy Jackson to The Song of Achilles, the obsession has never waned.

Yet Fit for the Gods shows how these stories still have a power of metamorphosis that would impress Ovid. Here you'll find Atalanta's wild hunt reimagined as a daring space battle; a sex-swapped take on Theseus and the Minotaur; a story that explores the character of Tiresias with a complex, fascinating, modern understanding of gender; a chilling feminist takedown of Apollo from Daphne's POV; and the entire Greek pantheon reimagined as dangerously clever, bored AIs. 

Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Fit for the Gods will be like ambrosia for those craving fresh interpretations of their favorite myths, and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in these beloved legends.

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

JENN NORTHINGTON is the co-editor of the Locus Award-nominated anthology Sword Stone Table, a former bookseller, and a current reviewer, podcaster, and editor with Riot New Media Group.
S. ZAINAB WILLIAMS is a writer, editor, and illustrator based in Asheville, NC. A podcaster and director of content for Book Riot, and a member of PEN America’s Literary Awards Committee, she spends most of her days thinking about how to make the world of books and reading more inclusive and progressive.

Introduction by Jenn Northington & S. Zainab Williams

The Gorgon Confessionals
Zoraida Córdova

Dion and the Maenads
S. Zainab Williams

Tiresias
Zeyn Joukhadar

Wild to Covet
Sarah Gailey

Pescada
Juliana Spink Mills

Pickles for Mrs. Pomme
Susan Purr

The Ship of Thea
Suleikha Snyder

The Furies Detective Agency
Mia P. Manansala

Atalanta Hunts the Boar
Valerie Valdes

A Heart Inured to Suffering
Jude Reali

Trembling Aspen; Or, To Shiver
Marika Bailey

Stasis (Bastion in the Spring)
Alyssa Cole

The Eagles at the Edge of the World
Taylor Rae

The Words from the Mountain
Wen Wen Yang

No Gods, No Kings
Maya Deane

Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors & Story Notes