A collection of thirty short stories which explore alternate worlds from the past in which women and social classes are oppressed and anachronistic technology is used to bring about a better future.
Record details
ISBN:9780762444687 (pbk.)
ISBN:0762444681 (pbk.)
ISBN:9781849017367 (pbk. : UK ISBN)
ISBN:1849017360 (pbk. : UK ISBN)
Physical Description:print vii, 498 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher:London : Robinson ; Philadelphia : Running Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Steampunk: looking to the future through the lens of the past / by Ekaterina Sedia -- Fixing Hanover / by Jeff VanderMeer -- Steam Dancer (1896) / by Caitlin R. Kiernan -- Icebreaker / by E. Catherine Tobler -- Tom Edison and his amazing telegraphic harpoon / by Jay Lake -- Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball / by Genevieve Valentine -- Clockwork fairies / by Cat Rambo -- Mechanical aviary of Emperor Jala-ud-din Muhammad Akbar / by Shweta Narayan -- Prayers of forges and furnaces / by Aliette de Bodard -- Effluent engine / by N.K. Jemisin -- Clockwork goat and the smokestack magi / by Peter M. Ball -- Armature of flight / by Sharon Mock -- 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 -- People's machine / by Tobias S. Buckell -- 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 -- Serpent in the gears / by Margaret Ronald -- 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 -- Ballad of the last human / by Lavie Tidhar.
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