Kelly Link & Gavin J Grant, (ed) Steampunk! ~ An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Read by: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, Arthur Morey
Unabridged: Yes
Runtime: 12h 48mn 50
Total Number of Audio Files: 11
Audio: MP3, 2-channel, 96 Kbps @ 48000 Hz, CBR
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans -- decked out in corsets, clockwork suits, and tall black boots -- solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
Here, in the first major steampunk anthology for young adults, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established blend of sci-fi and fantasy, action and adventure, history and romance, and refashion it in surprising ways and in settings as diverse as Canada, New Zealand, Appalachia, Wales, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Visionaries Link and Grant have invited all-new interpretations, explorations, and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme, but challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up.
The result is an anthology that defies even as it defines the genre. With fantastically strange stories by M. T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Shawn Cheng, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Dylan Horrocks, Kathleen Jennings, Elizabeth Knox, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Christopher Rowe, Delia Sherman, and Ysabeau S. Wilce.
Table of Contents (From Hardbound Edition)
Cassandra Clare, "Some Fortunate Future Day"
Libba Bray, "The Last Ride of the Glory Girls"
Cory Doctorow, "Clockwork Fagin"
Ysabeau Wilce, "Hand in Glove"
Delia Sherman, "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor"
Elizabeth Knox, "Gethsemene"
Kelly Link, "The Summer People"
Garth Nix, "Peace in Our Time"
Christopher Rowe, "Nowhere Fast"
Dylan Horrocks, "Steam Girl"
Holly Black, "Everything Amiable and Obliging"
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Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant started a zine, founded an independent publishing house, own two letterpresses, and edited the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror for five years.
Kelly Link is the author of three acclaimed short story collections and a collection for young adults. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Restless Dead and have won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Tiptree, British Science Fiction, and World Fantasy Awards.
Born in Scotland, Gavin J. Grant moved to the U.S. in 1991. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Bookslut, and Time Out New York , is still a zine reviewer for Xerography Debt, and has published stories in several literary magazines.
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