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Strange

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Steampunk!

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An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

e di t e d by

Kelly Link

&Gavin J. Grant

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This is a work of fi ction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the authors’ imaginations or, if real, are used fi ctitiously.

Compilation and introduction copyright © 2011 by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant“Some Fortunate Future Day” copyright © 2011 by Cassandra Clare“The Last Ride of the Glory Girls” copyright © 2011 by Libba Bray

“Clockwork Fagin” copyright © 2011 by Cory Doctorow“Seven Days Beset by Demons” copyright © 2011 by Shawn Cheng

“Hand in Glove” copyright © 2011 by Ysabeau S. Wilce“The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor” copyright © 2011 by Delia Sherman

“Gethsemane” copyright © 2011 by Elizabeth Knox“The Summer People” copyright © 2011 by Kelly Link“Peace in Our Time” copyright © 2011 by Garth Nix

“Nowhere Fast” copyright © 2011 by Christopher Rowe“Finishing School” copyright © 2011 by Kathleen Jennings

“Steam Girl” copyright © 2011 by Dylan Horrocks“Everything Amiable and Obliging” copyright © 2011 by Holly Black

“The Oracle Engine” copyright © 2011 by M. T. Anderson

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

First edition 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steampunk! : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories / edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. — 1st ed.p. cm.

Summary: A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

Contents: Some fortunate future day / Cassandra Clare — The last ride of the Glory Girls / Libba Bray — Clockwork Fagin / Cory Doctorow — Seven days beset by demons / Shawn Cheng — Hand in glove / Ysabeau S. Wilce —

The ghost of Cwmlech Manor / Delia Sherman — Gethsemane / Elizabeth Knox — The summer people / Kelly Link — Peace in our time / Garth Nix — Nowhere fast / Christopher Rowe — Finishing school / Kathleen Jennings —

Steam girl / Dylan Horrocks — Everything amiable and obliging / Holly Black — The oracle engine / M. T. Anderson.ISBN 978-0-7636-4843-5

1. Fantasy. 2. Young adult fi ction. [1. Fantasy. 2. Short stories.] I. Link, Kelly. II. Grant, Gavin J.PZ5.S798 2011

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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

Some Fortunate Future Day

The Last Ride of the Glory Girls

Clockwork Fagin

Seven Days Beset by Demons

Hand in Glove

The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor

Gethsemane

The Summer People

Peace in Our Time

Nowhere Fast

Finishing School

Steam Girl

Everything Amiable and Obliging

The Oracle Engine

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Cassandra Clare

Libba Bray

Cory Doctorow

Shawn Cheng

Ysabeau S. Wilce

Delia Sherman

Elizabeth Knox

Kelly Link

Garth Nix

Christopher Rowe

Kathleen Jennings

Dylan Horrocks

Holly Black

M. T. Anderson

Contents

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O rphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their

lives. A girl confronts the Grand Technomancer, Most Mighty

Mechanician and Highest of the High Artifi cier Adepts.

Another girl, who might be from another universe, stuns everyone

when she pulls out her handmade Reality Gun.

Welcome to fourteen steampunk visions of the past, the future,

and the not quite today.

Depending on whom you believe, steampunk has been exploding

into the world for the last hundred years (thank you, Monsieur Jules

Verne) or maybe the last twenty-fi ve (when the term was fi rst used

by K. W. Jeter in a letter to Locus magazine). We have had fabulous

fun working with this baker’s dozen of authors, investigating some of

the more fascinating nooks and crannies of the genre.

You’ll fi nd the requisite number of gaslit alleys, intrepid urchins,

steam-powered machines, and technologies that never were. Those

are the basic accoutrements that no self-respecting steampunk

Introduction

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Introductionanthol ogy could be without, but as we assembled the book (fi ling

down this story here, fi nding the right solder to put these two ideas

together there), we discovered that steampunk has gone far beyond

these markers. The two Philips (Reeve and Pullman, respectively)

brought moving cities and armored polar bears. Alan Moore

and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen brought

nineteenth- century London to a halt. Cherie Priest introduced

zombies (Boneshaker), Gail Carriger introduced vampires (Soulless),

and Je^ and Ann VanderMeer brought it all together in Steampunk

and Steampunk II.

Makers and artists have taken the romance and adventure of

steampunk and remixed, reinvented, and remade the genre from

whole cloth — and, yes, brass widgets. We’ve spent hours wander-

ing through the online galleries on Etsy and Flickr, marveling at

the clockwork insects, corsets, art, hats, gloves, canes, modded

computers, and even a steampunk house (want!), and we love the

DIY craftiness that keeps inspiring more decadent and more useful

machines and toys.

The continuing reinterpretation of the steampunk idea made

us ask the writers for stories that explored and expanded their

own ideas of what steampunk could be. So we have a book of mad

inventors, child mechanics, mysterious murderers, revolutionary

motorists, steampunk fairies, and monopoly-breaking schoolgirls,

whose stories are set in Canada, New Zealand, Wales, ancient Rome,

future Australia, alternate California, and even the postapocalypse —

everywhere except Victorian London.

Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

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