By Kelly Link
Review & Description
Imagine an altrnate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, Ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies the genre even as it defines it.
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
Ysabeau S. Wilce Read more
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