Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

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.

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the steampunk genre’s established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, Ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.

Reviewed by Terri M. LeBlanc on

3 of 5 stars

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1. Some Fortunate Future Day: ***
2. The Last Ride of the Glory Girls: ****
3. Clockwork Fagin: ****
4. Seven Days Beset by Demons: *
5. Hand in Glove: ***
6. The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor: ***
7. Gethsemane: **
8. The Summer People: ***
9. Peace in Our Time: ****
10. Nowhere Fast: ***
11. Finishing School: *
12. Steam Girl: *****
13. Everything Amiable and Obliging: ***
14. The Oracle Engine: ***

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