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Overview: ANN VANDERMEER is the Hugo Awardwinning former editor of Weird Tales magazine and has worked with her husband, Hugonominated and World Fantasy Awardwinning writer JEFF VANDERMEER on the genre-defining anthologies The New Weird, Steampunk, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, and the World Fantasy Awardwinning The Weird. They live in Tallahassee, Florida.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Steampunk II – Steampunk Reloaded
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.
Contents
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer: What Is Steampunk?
Fiction
William Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum
Marc Laidlaw: Great Breakthroughs in Darkness
JeffreyFord: Dr. Lash Remembers
Stephen Baxter: The Unblinking Eye
Caitlأn R. Kiernan: The Steam Dancer (1896)
Andrew Knighton: The Cast-Iron Kid
Margo Lanagan: Machine Maid
Ramsey Shehadeh: The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe
Shweta Narayan: The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar
Chris Roberson: O One
Samantha Henderson: Wild Copper
David Erik Nelson: The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond
Jess Nevins: Lost Pages from The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
Cherie Priest: Tanglefoot (A Clockwork Century Story)
Margaret Ronald: A Serpent in the Gears
G. D. Falksen: The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
Tanith Lee: The Persecution Machine
Daniel Abraham: Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance
James L. Grant & Lisa Mantchev: As Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers
Vilhelm Bergsأ¸e: Flying Fish Prometheus (A Fantasy of the Future)
Catherynne M. Valente: The Anachronist’s Cookbook
Sydney Padua: Lovelace & Babbage: Origins, with Salamander
The Mecha-Ostrich: A Secret History of Steampunk
(With contributions by Matthew Cheney, John Coulthart, Rikki Ducornet, Fأ،bio Fernandes, Felix Gilman, L. L. Hannett, Albert Robida, Ekaterina Sedia, Angela Slatter, Brian Stableford, Ivica Stevanovic, and more.)
Nonfiction
Gail Carriger: Which Is Mightier, the Pen or the Parasol?
Jake von Slatt: At the Intersection of Technology and Romance
The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview
Biographies
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution
Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernized technology, the wildly popular steampunk genre is here to stay. Now…long live the revolution!
Steampunk Revolution features a renegade collective of writers and artists, including steampunk legends and hot, new talents rebooting the steam-driven past and powering it into the future. Lev Grossman’s ?Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing” is the Six-Million-Dollar Steampunk Man, possessing appendages and workings recycled from metal parts, yet also fully human, resilient, and determined. Bruce Sterling’s ?White Fungus” introduces steampunk’s younger cousin, salvage-punk, speculating on how cities will be built in the future using preexisting materials. Cat Valente’s ?Mother Is a Machine” explores the merging of man and machine and a whole new form of parenting. In Jeff VanderMeer’s anti-steampunk story ?Fixing Hanover,” a creator must turn his back on his creation because it is so utterly destructive. And Cherie Priest presents ?The Clockroach,” a new and very unsettling mode of transportation.
Contents
Ann VanderMeer Introduction
FICTION
Carrie Vaughn Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil
Cherie Priest Addison Howell and the Clockroach
Paolo Chikiamco On Wooden Wings
Lev Grossman Sir Ranolph Wykeham-Rackham
Malissa Kent The Heart Is the Matter
Catherynne M. Valente Mother Is a Machine
Ben Peek Possession
Karin Tidbeck Beatrice
Nick Mamatas Arbeitskraft
Genevieve Valentine Study for Solo Piano
Samantha Henderson Beside Calais
David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid)
Vandana Singh A Handful of Rice
Jeff VanderMeer Fixing Hanover
Margaret Ronald Salvage
Andrew Knighton Urban Drift
Leow Hui Min Ascension
Annabeth Christopher Rowe Nowhere Fast
N. K. Jemisin The Effluent Engine
Amal El-Mohtar To Follow the Waves
JY Yang Captain Bells and the Sovereign State of Discordia
Jeffrey Ford The Seventh Expression of the Robot General
Lavie Tidhar The Stoker Memorandum
Christopher Barzak Smoke City
Caitlín R. Kiernan Goggles (c.1910)
Garth Nix Peace in Our Time
Bruce Sterling White Fungus
NONFICTION
Amal El-Mohtar
Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam
Margaret Killjoy
Steampunk Shapes Our Future
Jaymee Goh
From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground
Austin Sirkin
The (R)Evolution of Steampunk
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