Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
"Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines . . . should please steampunks of all ages." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks,...
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"Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines . . . should please steampunks of all ages." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have taken a genre already rich, strange, and inventive and challenged fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, to embrace its established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780763657970 (0763657972)
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
This anthology was quite solid. I enjoyed all the stories, with the exception of one or two, and it was a wonderful to the genre.My favourite story has to be Steam Girl by Dylan Horrocks but I also really liked the story by Libba Bray (The Last Ride of the Glory Girls), the one by Cory Doctorow (Clo...
This collection of Steampunk stories mostly avoid Victorian England and range from the Roman Empire to the future. They are generally quite good, though not all of course. I especially enjoyed Dylan Horrock's Steam Girl and Cory Doctorow's Clockwork Fagin.
"Some Unfortunate Future Day" by Cassandra ClareI liked this one, in a way it felt kind of horror-ish cos the girl turns a creepy in the end."The Last Ride of the Glory Girls" by Libba BrayThis one was good too, but for me it did not really work as a short story, I had too many questions about the ...
Read a few of the stories liked them. But a lot of filler.