Steampunk! an Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories [electronic resource]
Grant, Gavin J.2011
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In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions. Imagine an alternate 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 its genre even as it defines it.
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Author:
Grant, Gavin J., EditorJennings, Kathleen, ContributorKnox, Elizabeth, ContributorNix, Garth, ContributorRowe, Christopher, ContributorSherman, Delia, ContributorWilce, Ysabeau, ContributorLink, Kelly, EditorAnderson, M. T., ContributorBlack, Holly, ContributorBray, Libba, ContributorCheng, Shawn, ContributorClare, Cassandra, ContributorDoctorow, Cory, ContributorHorrocks, Dylan, Contributor
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Candlewick Press, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 4-6
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Gavin J. Grant is a firm believer in the do-it-yourself ethos that powers the steampunk movement. He started a zine, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, in 1996, cofounded Small Beer Press, an independent publishing house with his wife, Kelly Link, and in 2010 launched WeightlessBooks.com, an ebooksite for independent presses. He has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Bookslut, Xerography Debt, Scifiction, The Journal Of Pulse Pounding Narratives, and Strange Horizons. He co-edited The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and for five years co-edited the fantasy half of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. He lives with his wife and daughter in Massachusetts.
ISBN:
9780763656386
Language:
English
BRN:
2836602