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Imperfect parts together in a perfect arrangement.” Ages 14–up.

only appear in two of the more than thirty Fafhrd and Gray Mouser sto. As the lovelorn, mechanically gifted “hero” of comics artist Shawn Cheng’s contribution says, “The world is a machine. She won a Locus Award for Best Anthology in 1976, and a posthumous Hugo for Best. Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines, these often baroque, intensely anachronistic tales should please steampunks of all ages. Anderson’s magisterial “The Oracle Engine,” which explores the political complexities resulting from the Roman Empire’s development of a Rube Goldberg–like supercomputer. Among the many high points: Cassandra Clare’s creepy “Some Fortunate Future Day,” in which a lonely girl, grown bored with her sentient clockwork dolls, develops a crush on a wounded soldier Libba Bray’s subversively funny “The Last Ride of the Glory Girls,” which concerns a girl gang robbing trains and dirigibles on another planet (presumably a future Mars) heavily reminiscent of the Old West Holly Black’s humorous and romantic “Everything Amiable and Obliging,” whose heroine, a rich orphan, must deal with her feelings toward her cousin and persuade his sister not to marry her clockwork dance instructor and M.T.

The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.Veteran editors Link and Grant serve up a delicious mix of original stories from 14 skilled writers and artists. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. A Taste for SpeedJohn Joseph Kelly, Deadly Vintage (A Jack Donne. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. City Power: Urban Governance in a Global AgeRichard C. Steampunk An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories ed. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. 419 pages : 23 pages In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genres mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions.

Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions. An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link.