[Steampunk 03] • Steampunk Revolution

27 fiction, 4 non-fiction entries imagine technology in Victorian era and philosophize on influences. Intro, bios, notes.

Fiction

“Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn

“Addison Howell and the Clockroach” by Cherie Priest

“On Wooden Wings” by Paolo Chikiamco

“Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham” by Lev Grossman

“The Heart Is the Matter” by Malissa Kent

“Mother Is a Machine” by Catherynne M. Valente

“Possession” by Ben Peek

“Beatrice” by Karin Tidbeck

“Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas

“Study, for Solo Piano” by Genevieve Valentine

“Beside Calais” by Samantha Henderson

“An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid)” by David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson

“A Handful of Rice” by Vandana Singh

“Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer

“Salvage” by Margaret Ronald

“Urban Drift” by Andrew Knighton

“Ascension” by Leow Hui Min Annabeth

“Nowhere Fast” by Christopher Rowe

“The Effluent Engine” by N. K. Jemisin

“To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar

“Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” by JY Yang

“The Seventh Expression of the Robot General” by Jeffrey Ford

“The Stoker Memorandum” by Lavie Tidhar

“Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak

“Goggles (c.1910)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Peace in Our Time” by Garth Nix

“White Fungus” by Bruce Sterling

Nonfiction

“Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam” by Amal El-Mohtar

“Steampunk Shapes Our Future” by Margaret Killjoy

“From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground” by Jaymee Goh

“The (R)Evolution of Steampunk” by Austin Sirkin