Gather Steampunk! An Anthology Of Fantastically Rich And Strange Stories Conceived By Kelly Link Expressed As Volume

closer but on the lower side, Some stories I really liked, others I didn't care for at all and felt I wasted time on a couple even,

These were the ones I actually enjoyed above,worth:

Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare Rose is a bit scary in her obsessions, But I also feel bad for her, all alone, I want to know her age!

Last Ride of the Glory Girls by Libba Bray Alt reality western, Some parts were strange but others good, I wanted to get know what she would do in the end, A lot very too vague but would love to see fleshed out into a full story,

Clockwork Fagin by Cory Doctorow Great orphanage story! Love what these kids do less what specifically they do to get an automaton, . eww. . to improve their lives, despite their situation,

Hand in Glove by Ysabeau S Wilce I didn't care much for the writing style, felt too much like parts taken from other stories, including Frankenstein and a certain spooky family movie/series that has seen many remakes.
Yet still decent and curious,

The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor by Delia Sherman This was really good, Another favorite here. A gothic tale, old manors, and automatons, I kept expecting a hint of romance though, . .

Gethsemane by Elizabeth Knox Started off interesting but felt too scattered, Who people really were and why they did what they did, The ending does cover it but it felt broken in execution,

The Summer People by Kelly Link What rich possibilities!! I wanted more! Were there fae! Who are the summer people exactly! I want a full novel of this.
Ending was a bit confusing though,

Steam Girl by Dylan Horrocks Scifi meets steampunk in this tale within a tale, And what is the truth in the story Very creative,

Everything Amiable and Obliging Sentient automatrons A hint of romance, . . gone wrong. I really enjoyed this one as well,

The Oracle Engines Strange historical story sent in Roman times, A story of Caesar, Crassusm Pompei and Marcus as never told, Interesting at times, but slow and overdrawn,short stories chosen by Kelly Link, Gavin J, Grant,for most delightfully humorous, even gripping horrors are wonderfully written, Doctorow's "Clockwork Fagin" ending decisively positive, my favorite, Second fave hints at Happy Ever After, Wilce's "Hand, . ", also Sherman's Gwemlich "Ghost. . ". Others are up in the air, doomfull, even the two pictorial tales,

Memorable unforgettable tragedy, Nix's "Peace, . ", resonates for anyone ever subjected to noise sleep deprivation torture, whether hardened soldier or physically weakened hospital/ institution inmate, Horrock's "Steam Girl" is nerd hope sweet, sad, too true, Most spoilers finish with closing line of story,

Some Fortunate Future Day by Cassandra Clare
I like better her funny "The Girl's Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord" from "Turn the Other Chick" sitelink baenebooks. com/chapters/
The reader fears the selfish romantical girl with more power than quality of character, When her new pet bunny nips, Roseangrily smashes it dead ohoh, murderous temper, immature, Her clever inventor father sets his time gadget appropriately, but she quietly squeezes bunny dead her father forgets her knowledge uhoh cruel, vindictive, secretive sociopath.


Now, bosom outgrowing dresses, father gone six months to war, she finds a wounded soldier, blue uniform means their side, passed out in garden p.
She gets her father's talented robots to secretly heal him psly, Jonah, grateful, courteous, laughing, "so handsome, . it hurts her eyes. " p, "like

a recruitment poster for airship pilots, . hardy, handy, and brave" p, regales her with charms of his family and the bustling Capital she will love them, they will love her, He surely is falling in love, and will take her away foolish, unrealistic Rose, Until the day Jonah is well enough to leave,

Enemy territory is "much too dangerous", he will "alert the authorities" to "send someone for" her p.
He is already is engaged, see Lily's chromolithograph in his necklace locket, He thinks of Rose as his "own little sister" p, She sets the gadget, not to after he is healed, but where "leaving a trail of blood behind, . begins the long and painful crawl toward her garden" pnono, maximum suffering, minimum hope for innocent soldier,

The Last Ride of the Glory Girls by Libba Bray
Exciting action, with brave girl hurt by her past, inconclusive end, maybe better as long book Dressed in the leather coat of John Barker mystery from her home town, narrator teen Adelaide Jones, expert clockwork fixer faced with imprisonment "It's your choice" pin "free world" p,, chooses Pinkerton Chief Coolidge's alternative, infiltrate the "Glory Girls", three teen bandits whose Enigma Temporal Suspension Apparatus gun stops time forminutes while they rob trains, banks, whatever.


Sweetheart John drowned by town religious leaders in opium baptism ceremony sparked tinder of rebellion into conflagration.
She joins the bandits for a year, fixes Enigma to freeze ten minutes, then to travel back four whole hoursp, But caught by Coolidge, tagged with unremovable listening device, she sees the girls arrested redhanded, looking back, at traitor. She shoots the time gun so the train vanishes, considers the fatal opium dose in her pocket and flips a coin,

Clockwork Fagin by Cory Doctorow
Updates Dicken's "Oliver Twist", At St Agatha's Home for the Rehabilitation of Crippled Children in Muddy York, newcomer Montreal Monty enables downtrodden amputees to rise up independent, narrated by inmate Sian O'Leary, originally from Hamilton, sold, like others, by impoverished parent.
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Seven Days Beset by Demons by Shawn Cheng
The moral, doom from each seven Deadly Sins Lust, Envy, Greed, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth is drawn incartoon frames per page, two pages per day, Monday to Sunday.
Four youths in hats bicycle through this world, Boy oriental slanted eyes builds snowglobe like domes with historical romantic couples, and passing girl admires one on his cart, Despite her tall fiancé, boy presents her with gift, Rejected, he turns to drink, and ignores next girl admirer,

Hand in Glove by Ysabeau S, Wilce
Detective "Anibal Aguille y Wilkins, the golden boy of the Califa Police Department, thrice decorated, always decorative, . More than ornamental, he gets the job done, . a real hero. . adored" pbribes with bacon sandwich, righthanded alcoholic "Nutter Norm", found with souvenir sparklies, into confessing to serial onehanded strangler "the Squeeze", But firstyear "Constable Aurelia Etreyo, . small and round and scowly" pascribes to forensic evidence "the Bertillo System" p, and tracks fingerprints, a broken thumb on left hand, to recently deceased handsome ingenue actor, corpse sold to "a medico" p.


Crazy scientists brought a corpse back to life, but the hand ran away, and Etreyo saves Wilkins just in time, by biting down hard on the attacker.
Although Wilkins gets the credit, he "grins gorgeously, presents Etreyo with giftwrapped "small cutglass flask" pof fancy mint mouthwash, and invites her to join his new team, espousing Bertillo.
Hints at Happy Ever After, with or without romance, "Who is she to stand in the way of the hero of the hour"

The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor by Delia Sherman
Tacy Gof smith's daughter, sensible just seventeen, was ever entranced by nightdressed Lady Agatha who hid family treasure, then was slain by Roundheads.
Now, Sir Arthur "nearly nineteen, with a degree in mechanical engineering from London Polytechnic" phires Tacy after tasting Welsh cakes, "Thin as a rake he was, with knobby wrists and sandy hair straggling over the collar of his shirt, which would have been the better for a wash and an iron" p.


He invents mechanicals who respond to piped notes she is "familiar with mechanicals from my cradle, Only pictures, but no need to tell him that" p, Manor mortgaged to villain who visits with bully boys "Rat's eyes and bull's necks, no servants, and next to no luggage, No manners, neither" p.

Mistress Angharad Cwmlech appears to save the day "A gulf as wide as the Severn there is, betwen the wanting to see a ghost and the seeing it.
But Mam always said there was no shock could not be cushioned by sweet, strong tea" pher new friend's mother had agreed, yet cannot help.
"There are rules and restrictions upon ghosts as there are upon young ladies of gentle birth, Given my choiuce, I'd be neither" p, and Arthur has no Sight,

Angharad "breaks a great rule" p, haunts a fine French pearl leather automaton, points out the priest's hole, and attacks the bullies.
Perhaps "outside all rules now", the robot Angharad stays, Tacy trains as an experimental engineer, and all meet Queen Victoria, Happy Ever After without necessarily romance outstandingly clever,

Gethsemane by Elizabeth Knox
A darkskin grizzled sailor guarding white boy James offers "a plug of chaw" pto the blind "zombie slave" Mary who follows reclusive nameless girl witch.
When engineer McCahon drills, mountain above the island port town erupts as volcano, and their true stories come to light,

Amy, runaway girl selfstyled "witch" visits circus for "Baked Boy", James trapped in jail cell during eruption.
He regrets never acknowledging his grandfather, who saved McCahon, now Amy's husband, Hints Amy cursed mother, so ran when she began dying of face cancer, Theme kind of regrets, because James missed beautiful catastrophe, wistful, "I wish I'd seen it" pis last line,

The Summer People by Kelly Link
Fran downs Nyquil, father drives to Florida revival with "sometime girlfriend" pand tells her to get Roberts' house ready for weekend.
Fairy "summer people" demand stuff, she spends/on them, why not refuse humans Father banned childhood summer's pal Ophelia after one summer because she had one Barbie kiss another "just didn't have a Ken" p.
Reputed lesbian now yearround, Ophelia drives her home, asks why sometimes Appalachian dialect in her speech, and offers to help with house of fairy people.


Fran abandons Ophelia sleeping overnight in fairy house supposedly for dream of heart's desire, takes bus to New York, sells fairy gift for ticket to Paris, cleans pension.
Two years later, inside magic tent with window back, she still "looks out the window at the two apple trees, She tells herself that one day soon she will go home again" p,

Peace in Our Time by Garth Nix
"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 unmistakeable ticktocktocktock of a clockwerk velociped" pRuaneish has "chilling competence in her eyes.
. hands usually held weapons" p, investigating three keys that unlocked the devastation of a world "Ahfred Progressor III" pleft behind,

He screams "The noise! A world of clockwerk sic, everybody and everything ticking, ticking, ticking, ticking ", falls dead.
She whistles "an old old song" p,

Nowhere Fast by Christopher Rowe
Future is good no more polluting gas guzzling exhaust belchers, and bad individual travel unavailable to commoners another "be careful what you wish for".
Friendly chatty Fizz claims to have driven from N, Carolina on his cobbled vehicle Rudolf "it takes forever to get anywhere now" p, but the bicycle shop repairman calls in Federals to arrest the youth for operating a private car, revolutionary behavior.



After coalsteamhorses crush Rudolf, shop owner's equally mechanical daughter Luz, raised on gran's surfing stories "of gliding across an ocean's wave" offers shocked silent Fizz "where we can get some parts" p.


Finishing School by Kathleen Jennings
In wedges, triangles, and boxes, cartoon adult orthodontist Cecile recalls her now famous schoolmate Gwen Byrne chinese mother "really sabotage.
. my father, your uncle experimental aviators are always getting killed" p, and works on parts left in the boarding school attic by the uncle,

When school founder, famous dirigiblist Captain Sherritt honors school with visit, Gwen sails from roof in a triplane.
"That was the beginning" p,

Steam Girl by Dylan Horrocks
Narrator Redmond looks goofy, never been popular, smart or good at sports, "oversize teeth, . woolly black hair" "gave up looking" long ago for hidden talents his mother sees p, until new girl inspires him to write about Rocket Boy, with her drawings and stories of heroic Steam Girl and her father, exploring beautiful Mars and Venus, but shot through by a villain to this alternate awful Earth.
She calls school bully Michael "reality incarnate", An imaginary dog is "loyal and fluffy and cute, But in real life, dogs bite your hand and pee on the carpet and have sex with the sofa, . You're dog pee on the carpet" p,

Michael punches Redmond and Shanaia she hates that name both in the mouth.
Her Reality Gun fails. Although "her legs are short and kind of plump, Her skin is pasty and pale, with freckles and spots" p, she is "oddly dressed, . and kind of weird" p, Redmond calls her "clever and courageous and beautiful", so she smiles "Come on, then, Rocket Boy" and "holds out her hand" p.


Everything Amiable and Obliging by Holly Black
Valerian Obermann, thinks of cousin Sofie as a child still p, until his sister, pretty Amelia and dancing instructor automaton Nicholas fall in love, and the interconnected clockwork house control becomes upset, ignoring chores "stoke fires", break morning cups of chocolate.
Robot butler Wexley assures them house tries to balance "needs of all the family members in concert", perhaps conflicting, cannot "truly defy", and may be reset by makers p.
Amelia commands the house to stop Valerian from throwing the off switch, as in kill p,

Despite Amelia's order, Nicholas understands the best for her, and shuts off the main control.
"Lord Obermann barely knew there had been any interruption of service" pand spoiled Amelia gets her Nicholas, Val asks if Sofie will "consider allowing me to " "Yes", . "she kisses him" p.

The Oracle Engine by M, T. Anderson
Translated from Mendacius's True Histories of the Roman Inventors, imitates Latin prosy incantations, "The reverie is, of course, nothing but a poet's sentimental concoction and cannot be verified" p, Marcus Furiusloses his home and family to a fire, because greedy Licinius Cassus keeps his fireboat back too long, and reimburses the orphan with a single silver denarius coin.
When a brilliant adult, the Medullinus Machinator builds an Oracle stockasticon to predict result of rich ruler Cassus' attack on the eastern Parthinian desert.


Competitors Julius Caesar goes north, Pompey west, Cassus dedicates seven male Vestal Virgins on the altar of Minerva to operate the contraption and kills Marcus, Despised and envied Cassus laughs at bad omens occurring, and interprets showers of gold and other predictions favorably,

Of course molten gold is poured down the throat of his decapitated head and other auguries fulfilled nastily.
Behind the victor, "chorus boys, dressed as women, moving their arms in delicate dance, sand of the gods, of their generosity, and of their love for all mankind" p.


Afterwords: About the Editors publishers and writers live in Massachusetts with daughter Ursula, Authorslines each, Acknowledgements thank you to the roof, the walls, the floor, the paper, the ink,.

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