Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded

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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...

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Overview

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.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
The dynamic VanderMeers follow 2008's Steampunk with this engaging anthology of 23 stories (three original to this volume, including Jeffrey Ford's "Dr. Lash Remembers"), two essays (including one by Gail Carriger), and a roundtable interview, all of which define, deepen, and demonstrate the clockwork beauty of automaton-laden science fiction. Standouts include Tanith Lee's madness-inspired "The Persecution Machine"; Caitlín R. Kiernan's hauntingly beautiful tale of "The Steam Dancer (1896)"; Marc Laidlaw's photographic encyclopedia of "Great Breakthroughs in Darkness"; Sydney Padua's comic "Lovelace and Babbage: Origins, with Salamander"; the frightening Pinocchio of Cherie Priest's "Tanglefoot"; William Gibson's proto-steampunk tale "The Gernsback Continuum"; and "Flying Fish ‘Prometheus' (A Fantasy of the Future)" by Vilhelm Bergsøe, a Danish contemporary of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Fabulous interior design by John Coulthart completes this worthy sequel to its well-regarded predecessor. (Nov.)
New York Journal of Books
A wonderful addition to any collection—rich and varied enough to continually offer new ideas, new takes on oldies but goodies, and intense excitement and adventure in myriad styles. The book feels fresh, new, and at the same time, like it should have been actually produced at the time it's set in.
Los Angeles Times
It is as if a mad scientist had done all his shopping at Victoriana instead of Sharper Image . . . effectively captures what the steampunk genre is all about.
San Francisco Chronicle
This new collection of previously published stories spotlights some of the best short work in the subgenre.
San Francisco Examiner
If you want to go deeper into realms where high tech and the old world meet, be sure to pick up the Steampunk anthology.
The Steampunk Workshop Jake Von Slatt
Chock full of brass, steam, diabolical engines, villains, Victorian aesthetics, romance, and humour . . . An essential primer!
www.sfrevu.com
All stories contained in the anthology Steampunk collected by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are of high quality . . . Recommended for those who enjoy steampunk and those who want a diverse exposure to the possibilities within steampunk.
Manchester Guardian Books Blog
Of all speculative fiction's sub-genres, steampunk is proving to be among the most popular and influential . . . Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have gathered many of the gnarliest examples of the genre in their Steampunk anthology.
Jake Von Slatt
Chock full of brass, steam, diabolical engines, villains, Victorian aesthetics, romance, and humour . . . An essential primer!, --(Jake Von Slatt, The Steampunk Workshop)
sfrevu.com
All stories contained in the anthology Steampunk collected by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are of high quality . . . Recommended for those who enjoy steampunk and those who want a diverse exposure to the possibilities within steampunk.
Library Journal
A photographer glimpses visions of potential alternate worlds in his photographic journeys in William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum," while newcomer Ramsey Shehadeh's "The Unbecoming of Vergil Smythe" pays Victorian-style homage to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. This follow-up to the best-selling Steampunk also includes stories by Steven Baxter, Tanith Lee, Jess Nevin, and other contemporary writers as well as essays by Gail Carriger and Jake von Slatt discussing the genre's past, present, and future. VERDICT Steampunk fans will want to add this to their personal collections; libraries owning the first volume should round out their holdings.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781616960018
  • Publisher: Tachyon Publications
  • Publication date: 11/15/2010
  • Pages: 432
  • Sales rank: 278,604
  • Product dimensions: 9.26 (w) x 11.80 (h) x 1.16 (d)

Meet the Author

Ann VanderMeer is the publisher of Buzzcity Press and the fiction editor for Weird Tales. Jeff VanderMeer is the founder and editor for Ministry of Whimsy Press. He is the author of City of Saints and Madmen, Secret Life, Shriek, and Veniss Underground. He is the editor of the Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. Coeditors of the Best American Fantasy series and Steampunk, they both live in Tallahassee, Florida.

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