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Loading... 16 | 1 | 1,315,056 | None | None | MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. MECH features a vast array of tales featuring giant, human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, or wherever, you-name-it MECH is anchored by authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Ramez Naam, Jason Hough, Jeremy Robinson, and Jody Lynn Nye. This anthology features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, "Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters." So strap in. Activate your interface array. Let's rock… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Marquitz, Tim | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Meadors, Melanie R. | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | anderson, kevin j. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | boop, david | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | brennan, m.l. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | brozek, jennifer | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | clines, peter | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Diamond, Steven | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | dietz, william c. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | gilmour, kane | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | hough, jason m. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | koch, gini | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | liptak, andrew | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | mariotte, jeffrey j. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | mcneill, graham | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | naam, ramez | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | nye, jody lynn | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | reaves, mallory | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | robinson, jeremy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | rockwell, marsheila | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | sigler, scott | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | somers, jeff | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | speakman, shawn | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | strout, anton | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | swallow, james | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | teppo, mark | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | tracy, patrick m. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | tuck, james r. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | wells, martha | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | werner, c.l. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | genesse, paul | Contributor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. MECH features a vast array of tales featuring giant, human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, or wherever, you-name-it MECH is anchored by authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Ramez Naam, Jason Hough, Jeremy Robinson, and Jody Lynn Nye. This anthology features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, "Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters." So strap in. Activate your interface array. Let's rock ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Introduction / Melanie R. Meadors
- Projekt: Maria / Matt Forbeck
- All Together, Now / Peter Clines
- Toy Soldier / Ramez Naam and Jason M. Hough
- Travailiant / James Swallow
- Easy As Pie / Kevin J. Anderson and David Boop
- Theseus IV vs Mecha-Mishipeshu / Jody Lynn Nye
- Jäegermeister / C.L. Werner
- The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey / J.C. Koch
- After the Victory / Shawn Speakman
- The Cold and The Dark / M L Brennan
- Of the Fire / James R. Tuck
- Machine Heart / Paul Genesse
- Fadem / Patrick M. Tracy
- I. Am. The. Pilot. / Anton Strout
- Vulture Patrol / Jason M. Hough and Ramez Naam
- Integration / Jennifer Brozek
- Here We Go! Fight! / Steve Diamond
- Lady and the Wolf / Kane Gilmour
- The Stars Shine Home / Scott Sigler
- The Bonus Situation / Mallory Reaves
- A Single Feather / Jeff Somers
- Birthright / Marsheila Rockwell and Jeffrey J Mariotte
- Rogue 57 / Martha Wells
- All For One / Jeremy Robinson
- Ordo Talos / Mark Teppo
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"Birthright" seems to take place chronologically earlier than the previously published short story featuring this cast of characters ("The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment", Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2), based on the fact that a major character in the latter is not mentioned in the former, which I found a touch disappointing and mostly because I had burning curiosity as to what would happen after "Almost Last Voyage" and "Birthright" did nothing to satisfy it. "Birthright" does explore a bit into the other characters, but it's so dang short that it reads as here, there, done. The Kickstarter also funded an illustration to accompany this short story, but I didn't think the illustration fit the story well (or maybe ran so counter to my imagination that I could only rouse a meh for it).
Three stars. Probably a must for the completist of this author or series, but I think I would have been better off waiting and hoping that it reprinted with a publication that was a more suited match for my taste.
(I did not read the other stories in this anthology.)