Description |
vii, 498 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents |
Steampunk : looking to the future through the lens of the past / by Ekaterina Sedia -- Fixing Hanover / by Jeff VanderMeer -- The Steam Dancer (1896) / by Caitlin R. Kierman -- Icebreaker / by E. Catherine Tobler -- Tom Edison and his amazing telegraphic harpoon / by Jay Lake -- The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball / by Genevieve Valentine -- Clockwork fairies / by Cat Rambo -- The mechanical aviary of Emperor Jala-ud-din Muhammad Akbar / by Shweta Narayan -- Prayers of forges and furnaces / by Aliette de Bodard -- The effluent engine / by N.K. Jemisin -- The clockwork goat and the smokestack magi / by Peter M. Ball -- The armature of flight / by Sharon Mock -- The anachronist's cookbook / by Catherynne M. Valente -- Numismatics in the reigns of Naranh and Viu / by Alex Dally MacFarlane -- Zeppelin City / by Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick -- The people's machine / by Tobias S. Buckell -- The hands that feed / by Matthew Kressel -- Machine maid / by Margo Lanagan -- To follow the waves / by Amal El-Mohtar -- Clockmaker's requiem / by Barth Anderson -- Dr Lash remembers / by Jeffrey Ford -- Lady Witherspoon's solution / by James Morrow -- Reluctance / by Cherie Priest -- A serpent in the gears / by Margaret Ronald -- The celebrated carousel of the Margravine of Blois / by Megan Arkenberg -- Biographical notes to ''A discourse on the nature of causality, with air-planes'' by Benjamin Rosenbaum / by Benjamin Rosenbaum -- Clockwork chickadee / by Mary Robinette Kowal -- Cinderella suicide / by Samantha Henderson -- Arbeitskraft / by Nick Mamatas -- To seek her fortune / by Nicole Kornher-Stace -- The ballad of the last human / by Lavie Tidhar. |
Summary |
Presents a collection of thirty short stories which explores alternate worlds from the past in which women and social classes are oppressed and anachronistic technology is used to bring about a better future. |
Subject |
Steampunk fiction.
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Added Author |
Wallace, Sean.
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ISBN |
9780762444687 paperback |
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0762444681 paperback |
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9781849017367 paperback UK ISBN |
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9781780331355 ebook |
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1849017360 paperback UK ISBN |
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1780331355 ebook |
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