Steam-Powered Series by JoSelle Vanderhooft, Kevin Steil, Elizabeth Porter Birdsall, S.L. Knapp, Jaymee Goh, Sean Holland, Jeannelle Ferreira, A.M. Tuomala, Nisi Shawl, Stephanie Lai, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Rebecca Fraimow, C.S.E. Cooney, Patty Templeton, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shveta Thakrar, Zen Cho, Amal El-Mohtar, N.K. Jemisin, Georgina Bruce, D.L. MacInnes, Sara M. Harvey, Beth Wodzinski, Rachel Manija Brown, Shira Lipkin, Matthew Kressel, Meredith Holmes, Teresa Wymore, Tara Sommers, Mikki Kendall, Shweta Narayan, Mike Allen

The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco's eccentric empire... moreThe fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco's eccentric empire. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each character is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered push steampunk to its limits and beyond. "From colonial India to New Orleans in slavery times, from a rogue San Francisco to the Lower East Side of old New York, these stories are thoughtful, wide-ranging, exciting, and often very, very sexy. Anybody who thinks that "steampunk" and "lesbian" are niche interests should read Steam-Powered and get their horizons seriously expanded." -Delia Sherman, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner and author of Through a Brazen Mirror. less

These fifteen thrilling and ingenious tales take the familiar genre of steampunk in exciting new directions, following women from across the globe and through pasts that never were (but could have been) on their search for money, adventure, prestige, freedom--and the love of another woman... moreThese fifteen thrilling and ingenious tales take the familiar genre of steampunk in exciting new directions, following women from across the globe and through pasts that never were (but could have been) on their search for money, adventure, prestige, freedom--and the love of another woman. Here you'll meet a Moroccan airship engineer and an English diplomat who receive a cryptic message and an exploding music box, a librarian who doubts her God, a Malaysian shipping clerk who dreams of adventure, a terracotta bride from the Tenth Circle of Hell, and an aeronaut on her way to certain death and a surprising discovery--and many more. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each of them is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered 2 push steampunk to its limits and beyond. "Journey's End," by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall "Amphitrite," by S.L. Knapp "In the Heart of Yellow Mountain," by Jaymee Goh "Playing Chess in New Persepolis," by Sean Holland "A Thousand Mill Lofts Gray," by Jeannelle Ferreira "Dark Horse," by A.M. Tuomala "The Return of Cherie," by Nisi Shawl "One Last Interruption before We Begin," by Stephanie Lai "Selin That Has Grown in the Desert," by Alex Dally MacFarlane "Granada's Library," by Rebecca Fraimow "The Canary of Candletown," by C.S.E. Cooney "Fruit Jar Drinkin', Cheatin' Heart Blues," by Patty Templeton "Deal," by Nicole Kornher-Stace "Not the Moon But the Stars," by Shveta Thakrar "The Terracotta Bride," by Zen Cho Article/Afterword: "Winding Down the House: Taking the Steam out of Steampunk," by Amal El-Mohtar less