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HTML: 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.
Going far beyond corsets and goggles, Steampunk Revolution is not just your granddad's zeppelin??it's an even… (more) |
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HTML: 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.
Going far beyond corsets and goggles, Steampunk Revolution is not just your granddad's zeppelin??it's an even ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Anthology contains: - Fiction:
- Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil / Carrie Vaughn
- Addison Howell and the Clockroach / Cherie Priest
- On Wooden Wings / Paolo Chikiamco
- Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham / Lev Grossman
- The Heart is the Matter / Malissa Kent
- Mother is a Machine / Catherynne M. Valente
- Possession / Ben Peek
- Beatrice / Karin Tidbeck
- Arbeitskraft / Nick Mamatas
- Study, for Solo Piano / Genevieve Valentine
- Beside Calais / Samantha Henderson
- An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo's Giant Squid) / David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson
- A Handful of Rice / Vandana Singh
- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer
- Salvage / Margaret Ronald
- Urban Drift / Andrew Knighton
- Ascension / Leow Hui Min Annabeth
- Nowhere Fast / Christopher Rowe
- The Effluent Engine / N.K. Jemisin
- To Follow the Waves / Amal El-Mohtar
- Captain Bells and the Sovereign State of Discordia / JY Yang
- The Seventh Expression of the Robot General / Jeffrey Ford
- The Stoker Memorandum / Lavie Tidhar
- Smoke City / Christopher Barzak
- Goggles (c. 1910) / Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Peace in Our Time / Garth Nix
- White Fungus / Bruce Sterling
- Nonfiction:
- Winding Down The House: Towards a Steampunk without Steam / Amal El-Mohtar
- Steampunk Shapes Our Future / Margaret Killjoy
- From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground / Jaymee Goh
- The (R)Evolution of Steampunk / Austin Sirkin
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