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A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
From dictionary.com: Steampunk: a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuringadvanced machines and other technology based on steampower of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizablehistorical period or a fantasy world.
Each short story is a work by a noted YA author. Libba Bray, for example, writes a story about a gang of horse riding Wild West girls with a mechanism that slows/stops time long enough for them to rob a train and get out. Cory Doctrow writes about a Canadian workhouse for crippled orphans run by a horrible man. The orphans kill him, take over and build a clockwork version (like a robot) of the man so the nuns won’t realize that he is gone.
I didn’t enjoy all the stories. Hand in Glove by Ysabeau S. Wilce 2008 winner of the Andre Norton award for Young Adult Science Fiction and fantasy was too something for me. I can’t put my finger on it (no pun intended). I found myself bogged down by the language of it all. On the other hand, Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare was an enjoyable (if creepy) read about a girl whose dolls tell her what to do. I have always been creeped out by talking dolls and this was no exception, but the story was excellent.
There are 2 graphic stories, stories which would appeal to girls, stories which would appeal to boys and stories which would appeal to all. It gives the reader a glimpse into the Steampunk genre and allows a taste of many different varieties. ( )
This is a delightful collection of steampunk short stories. There are stories ranging from detective to fantasy to graphic stories. They're fun, imaginative and a nice introduction to the world of steampunk. On top of that the book itself is beautiful. The cover is embossed and it has those cool paper pages that feel nice. It's a beautiful book to sit on a shelf. ( )
This very complete collection would have rated another STAR if it had not led off with yet another story needlessly featuring hideous rabbit animal cruelty. Why this was selected is beyond me.
Fortunately, the rest of the stories veered far off in other directions:
Steam Girl was fun. Favorite is "Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" - a sweet fairy tale. And one true romance, "Everything Amiable and Obliging," was quite welcome.
This was my introduction to Steampunk and, while I enjoyed many of the characters, the plots felt like good and cleverly written standard stories with Time, Gears, Machines, etc. woven in. ( )
An ambitious anthology by authors M.T. Anderson, Cory Doctorow, Libba Bray, Holly Black and others that expand the world of steampunk beyond its familiar Victorian setting. ( )
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For Ursula
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(For Some Fortunate Future Day pages 1-16)
Time is many things, her father told her.
(For The Last Ride of the Glory Girls pages 17-53)
I were riding with the Glory Girls, and we had an appointment with the 4:10 coming through the Kelly Pass.
(For Clockwork Fagin pages 54-92)
Monty Goldfarb walked into Saint Agatha's like he owned the place, a superior look on the half of his face that was still intact, a spring in his step despite his steel left leg.
(For Seven Days Beset by Demons pages 93-107)
Monday
(For Hand in Glove pages 108-141)
Like bees to honey, they cluster around him, Anibal Aguille y Wilkins, the golden boy of the Califa Police Department, thrice decorated, always decorative.
The old man who had once been the Grand Technomancer, Most Mighty Mechanician, and Highest of the High Artificier Adepts was cutting his roses when he heard the unmistakable ticktock-tocktock of a clockwerk velocipede coming down the road.
(For Nowhere Fast pages 267-290)
Luz could see the future, or at least her future.
(For Finishing School pages 291-307)
"So you want to know how an orthodontist met the legendary Gwendoline Byrne….
(For Steam Girl pages 308-352)
The first time I see her, she's standing alone behind the library, looking at the ground.
(For Everything Amiable and Obliging pages 353-375)
Sofia looked out the window of her aunt's London town house, and the chimney-sweep spiders clattering along the slate rooftops, their glass abdomens full of ash.
(For Oracle Engine pages 376-414)
Translated from Mendacius's True Histories of the Roman Inventors The lizard of the wasteland, so dazzling to the eye, so rapid to flee or to strike, may grow to its full maturity only in the most brutal of deserts, where no dew falls to drink and where the sun is relenting.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(For Some Fortunate Future Day Pages 1-16)
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen . . . the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increased store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate- That Time will come and take my love away…. --William Shakespeare, Sonnet LXIV
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(For Some Fortunate Future Day Pages 1-16)
Leaving a trail of blood behind him, he begins the long and painful crawl toward her garden, where she will find him again.
Last summer, we went to London, and Sir Arthur presented us to Queen Victoria, who shook our hands and said she has never spoken to a ghost before, or a female engineer, and that she was delightfully amused.
The serving women came with almonds, King Hyrodes clapped, the actor Jason pranced upon the stage, and behind him, the chorus boys, dressed as women, moving their arms in delicate dance, sang of the gods, of their generosity, and of their love for all mankind.
A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
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Steampunk: a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuringadvanced machines and other technology based on steampower of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizablehistorical period or a fantasy world.
Each short story is a work by a noted YA author. Libba Bray, for example, writes a story about a gang of horse riding Wild West girls with a mechanism that slows/stops time long enough for them to rob a train and get out. Cory Doctrow writes about a Canadian workhouse for crippled orphans run by a horrible man. The orphans kill him, take over and build a clockwork version (like a robot) of the man so the nuns won’t realize that he is gone.
I didn’t enjoy all the stories. Hand in Glove by Ysabeau S. Wilce 2008 winner of the Andre Norton award for Young Adult Science Fiction and fantasy was too something for me. I can’t put my finger on it (no pun intended). I found myself bogged down by the language of it all. On the other hand, Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare was an enjoyable (if creepy) read about a girl whose dolls tell her what to do. I have always been creeped out by talking dolls and this was no exception, but the story was excellent.
There are 2 graphic stories, stories which would appeal to girls, stories which would appeal to boys and stories which would appeal to all. It gives the reader a glimpse into the Steampunk genre and allows a taste of many different varieties.
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