As far as I can tell, this is not Dangerous Women 2, and is not a follow-up to Dangerous Women. Nor is there a Dangerous Women 3 forthcoming. Itâs Dangerous Women Part 2, and is the second of three parts into which Dangerous Women has been divided for paperback publication â itâs not a new work at all.
Youâre correct. This was actually published in the first Dangerous Women. This very article on Tor that now has a 10/8/14 publication date (http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/10/dangerous-women-the-girl-in-the-mirror-excerpt) is already on Tor with a 7/29/13 date (http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/07/story-review-the-girl-in-the-mirror-lev-grossman).
The story was new in 2013, but was also incorporated into Grossmanâs third novel, so to see it again now would be its third publication. I think someone just goofed up somewhere. 
Given how much BB loves promoting their particular choice of weird art / books / music / et cetera, youâd think at least these articles, of all things, would be where theyâd bother to factcheck.
I mean, if their response to criticisms of their journalistic standards is that theyâre a hobby blog, not a news site, they could at least bother to get their hobby and interest stories right. 
Dangerous Women Anthology was mostly meh, it was a follow up from the Warriors Anthology which was much better, though the story where space vampires save the earth from invasion was a bit silly. The Lev Grossman story is in the Magicians Book so is an excerpt.
That excerpt is the beginning of Chapter 7 of Lev Grossmanâs âMagicianâs Landâ. Is the story only that, or is it expanded? An excerpt from an anthology that publishes an excerpt from a novel Iâve already read as a short story isnât so very interesting âŚ
Now if theyâd persuaded Lev Grossman to write the story âwhich is only background colour in the novelâ of how âBetsyâ/Asmodeus used the knife she stole from the Chatwinâs suitcase to go fox hunting and take her revenge on a god, well that would be a Dangerous Woman interesting enough to make buying the anthology worthwhile âŚ
âDangerous Women 2â
Not âAgain, Dangerous Women?â 
Oh⌠I see itâs part two and not a sequel. Never mind.
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That excerpt is the beginning of Chapter 7 of Lev Grossmanâs âMagicianâs Landâ. Is the story only that, or is it expanded? An excerpt from an anthology that publishes an excerpt from a novel Iâve already read as a short story isnât so very interesting ⌠[/quote]
It says original stories by the authors set in their main seriesâs universe. (This looks to be part of the Legends series of Martin/Dozois anthologies, which have all been new stories.) So, it should be a completely new story.
Looking at the publishing dates, the hardback edition of âDangerous Womenâ came out in 2013 while Magicianâs Land was published in hardback this year. So assuming it is the same, it would have been a new story when it Martin/Dozois published it.
Thanks for the warning. Warriors was pretty awful. Most of the stories were boring or tediously bad, including GRRMâs contribution (foreshadowing ASoIaF 5, I suppose). David Weberâs vampires vs. aliens thing was so laughable, I couldnât actually finish reading it.
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