Steampunk

Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is innovative and stimulates the imagination. This artfully assembled anthology of original fiction, nonfiction, and art can serve as an introduction to the Steampunk culture or provide dedicated fans with more fuel. Stories of outlandi...

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Blending the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with modern scientific advances, the popular Steampunk genre spotlighted in this collection is innovative and stimulates the imagination. This artfully assembled anthology of original fiction, nonfiction, and art can serve as an introduction to the Steampunk culture or provide dedicated fans with more fuel. Stories of outlandishly imaginative technologies, clockwork contraptions, eccentric heroines, and mad scientists are complemented by canon-defining nonfiction and an array of original illustrations. This collection showcases the most sensational Steampunk talents of the last decade, including Daniel Abraham, John Coulthart, William Gibson, and Margo Lanagan, and demonstrates exactly why the future of the past is so excitingly new.

Ann VanderMeer is the publisher of Buzzcity Press and the fiction editor for Weird Tales. Jeff VanderMeer is the founder and editor for Ministry of Whimsy Press. He is the author of City of Saints and Madmen, Secret Life, Shriek, and Veniss Underground. He is the editor of the Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. Coedi...

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Ann VanderMeer is the publisher of Buzzcity Press and the fiction editor for Weird Tales. Jeff VanderMeer is the founder and editor for Ministry of Whimsy Press. He is the author of City of Saints and Madmen, Secret Life, Shriek, and Veniss Underground. He is the editor of the Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. Coeditors of the Best American Fantasy series and Steampunk, they both live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Original stories:
* Ekaterina Sedia, "Two Short Excerpts from the Russian Book of the Improbable"
* Jeffrey Ford, "Dr. Lash Remembers"
* Matthew Cheney, "Confessions and Complaints of a True Man"
* Ramsey Shehadeh, "The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe"
* Vilhelm Bergsoe, "Flying Fish (Prometheus)", translated by Dwight R. Decker
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Original stories:
* Ekaterina Sedia, "Two Short Excerpts from the Russian Book of the Improbable"
* Jeffrey Ford, "Dr. Lash Remembers"
* Matthew Cheney, "Confessions and Complaints of a True Man"
* Ramsey Shehadeh, "The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe"
* Vilhelm Bergsoe, "Flying Fish (Prometheus)", translated by Dwight R. Decker
* As well as contributions by Fabio Fernandes, Brian Stableford, Jess Nevins, and the Steampunk heretic known only as "The Mecha-Ostrich."
Original Non-fiction Articles by:
* Gail Carriger, author of Soulless (fashion and fiction)
* Jake Von Slatt of the Steampunk Workshop (maker movement)
* Mike Perschon, the Steampunk Scholar (the future)
Reprints:
* Daniel Abraham, "Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance"
* Stephen Baxter, "The Unblinking Eye"
* Winona Cookie, "The Unlikely Career of Portia Dreadnought," "Artemesia's Absinthe," and "Obadiah Theremin, MD"
* G.D. Falksen, "The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday"
* William Gibson, "The Gernsback Continuum"
* Samantha Henderson, "Wild Copper"
* Caitlín R. Kiernan "The Steam Dancer (1896)"
* Andrew Knighton, "The Cast-Iron Kid"
* Marc Laidlaw, "Great Breakthroughs in Darkness"
* Margo Lanagan, "Machine Maid"
* Lisa Mantchev & James Grant, "As Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers"
* Shweta Narayan, "The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar"
* David Erik Nelson, "The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond"
* Cherie Priest "Tanglefoot"
* Chris Roberson, "O One"
* Margaret Ronald, "A Serpent in the Gears"
* Catherynne M. Valente, "The Anachronist's Cookbook"
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