Imagine another universe where love and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft an environment of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that by no means were. Where researchers and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans – decked out in corsets, clockwerk matches, and tall dark boots – resolve dastardly crimes, get away from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over about Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically High and Strange Stories volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Right here, in the 1st major steampunk anthology for adults, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre’s set up mixture of sci-fi and illusion, action and experience, history and romance, and refashion it in unexpected methods and in settings as varied as Canada, New Zealand, Appalachia, Wales, historic Rome, future Australia, and alternative California. Visionaries Hyperlink and Grant have got asked all-new interpretations, explorations, and expansions, taking a genre already rich, unusual, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the bottom up. The effect can be an anthology that defies even as it defines the genre.