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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 9, 2021 17:25:27 GMT
Mike Ashley (Ed.) - Steampunk: Extraordinary Tales of Victorian Futurism (Fall River Press, 2012)[Originally published as Steampunk Prime (Nonstop Press, 2010)]
Paul Di Filippo - Foreword: Brit Boffin Delivers Steampunk's Pure Quill! or After Such Knowledge, What Thrills?
Mike Ashley - Introduction: When Steampunk Was Real
Henry A. Hering - Mr. Broadbent's Information (1909)
Reginald Bacchus & Ranger Gull - The Automaton (1900)
Fred C. Smale - The Abduction of Alexandra Seine (1900)
Jean Jaubert - The Gibraltar Tunnel (1914)
George Griffith - From Pole to Pole (1904)
George Parsons Lathrop - In the Deep of Time (1897)
Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade - The Brotherhood of Seven Kings: The Star Shaped Marks (1898)
Owen Oliver - The Plague of Lights (1904)
Ernest Favenc - What the Rats Brought (1903-1904)
George Davey - The Great Catastrophe (1910)
Robert Barr - Within an Ace of the End of the World (1900)
Frank L. Packard - An Interplanetary Rupture (1906)
George C. Wallis - The Last Days of Earth (1901)
George Allan England - The Plunge (1916)
This anthology is mostly tangential to the Vault's main themes, but I'm currently reading it and thought I'd post about it given that (1) editor Mike Ashley's name often shows up here; (2) the Favenc story (also resurrected by James Doig) appears in the 2014 Vault Advent Calendar; (3) Meade and Eustace may be familiar to many Vault readers from their occult detective stories; and (4) the Bacchus and Gull tale features a real ghost along with its (phony) mechanical chess-player. Ashley's notes are excellent, as always. The stories themselves range from the entertaining ("The Automaton," "The Abduction of Alexandra Seine," "The Star Shaped Marks") to the tedious ("In the Deep of Time," "An Interplanetary Rupture"). I have one story left to go ("The Plunge").
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