Steampunk Quartet [NOOK Book]

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Overview


Using the winners of a charity auction as characters, Eileen Gunn riffs on four formative steampunk books in this mini-collection comprised of "A Different Engine," "Day After the Cooters," "The Perdito Street Project," and "Internal Devices."
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Overview


Using the winners of a charity auction as characters, Eileen Gunn riffs on four formative steampunk books in this mini-collection comprised of "A Different Engine," "Day After the Cooters," "The Perdito Street Project," and "Internal Devices."

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781429927642
  • Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
  • Publication date: 2/1/2011
  • Sold by: ST MARTINS / MPS
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition description: A Tor.com Original
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 162,478
  • Series: A Tor.Com Original Series
  • File size: 555 KB

Meet the Author


Eileen Gunn is an American science fiction writer and editor, born in 1945 in Massachusetts. She is the author of a small but distinguished body of short fiction published over the last three decades. Her story “Coming to Terms” won the Nebula Award in 2004. The same year saw the publication of her collection Stable Strategies and Others.  Her other work in science fiction includes editing the pioneering webzine The Infinite Matrix and producing the website The Difference Dictionary, a concordance to The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. A graduate of Clarion, Gunn now serves as a director of Clarion West.  Other life experiences have included working as Director of Advertising at Microsoft (reporting directly to Steve Ballmer), traveling across Siberia in 1973, and being a member of an outlaw bike club.

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  • Posted April 11, 2011

    Not worth it

    If you like this author, feel free to read this, but honestly I had so much trouble reading these; that by the time i understood what was going on the story was over. Three page stories that are written so poorly it's like fifth grade poetry.

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