Steampunk Reloaded: 2 - Brossura

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.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

Steampunk is a genre for thinkers, and this book proves the point. The stories inside are beautiful, often lyrical, frequently disturbing, always exciting, and occasionally even funny, but they’re also dense, literary, and trusting of the reader to be smart enough to get’ it.”
New York Journal of Books

Steampunk fans will want to add this to their personal collections; libraries owning the first volume should round out their holdings.”
Library Journal

The VanderMeers have, once again, captured the essence of the genre.... This book is a must-have collection for fans of steampunk and those who love a dark, rousing tale of what could have been.”
Tangent

"This new collection of previously published stories spotlights some of the best short work in the subgenre."
—San Francisco Chronicle

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.