Like most anthologies, a mixed bag. Some of the stories were really good, and others I didn't finish due to lack of interest. I hadn't really read any steampunk before and wanted to get a taste of this genre, so it was good for that. Also for an introduction to various authors I hadn't heard of or read before, as well as some I had.

As with most short story collections, there are usually a mixture of good ones and bad ones. In this book though, unfortunately, I couldn't seem to find one that stood out, and to be honest, they were all fairly mediocre to what I was actually expecting.The stories are all written by various authors, most of these I've never heard of. The theme of the stories are fairly grotesque, which isn't a problem. The main problem with the majority of this collection are the rather weak plots, plus the fac...

What a great collection of stories! And what a lot of new authors to look out for now!There are a lot of very different Steampunk worlds here, including the African country of Everfair from Nisi Shawl, a Thai post-apocolyptic world from Benjanun Sriduangkaew, an Aztec maker of clockwork birds from Aliette de Bodard, and many more, with airships and mechanical creatures and fairgrounds full of marvels, a floating city full of opera houses, the Mongolian plains, the beginning of the film industry

Enjoyed every story. They were all unique and fascinating, and most of them shockingly progressive considering the time period they tend to be set in. Highly recommended for any Steampunk fan. It certainly lives up to its name. It is a mammoth read, but worth the time and effort.

Seven stories were actually good. The rest were O.K., but not especially memorable. Details to follow on my blog.

As with every anthology, you get a mixture of good and bad. I thought the writing quality overall was pretty good, but I feel this anthology is let down by the fact that many of the stories, whilst well-written, really aren't steampunk. Which likely explains why I get putting this book to one side and going on with other books, so that it took me a bit over a year to read the whole book.Steampunk is traditionally defined by being set in the Victorian era, but even if that restriction is ignored

First ThoughtsI picked this up while I was writing my first Steampunk novel, hoping to get a glimpse into his mysterious world of amazing steam and clockwork powered inventions, and alternate universes where electricity was obsolete. I was hoping for grandiose descriptions, compelling characters, incredible machines, fantastical worlds, and grungy, sooty Victorian-Era stories. What I got was a little bit of that, but mostly it was other genres set in a steampunk world where you don’t see much of...

This collection is a mixed bag, and I'm glad of that. Stories that don't quite behave as they ought are stories written by authors and picked by editors who are pushing at boundaries. Some of these stories are not comfortable for me to read ('Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine' and 'Anna in the Moonlight', for example). The diverse viewpoints are greatly welcomed, and they add fascinating layers of conflict.I really admired 'The Clockworks of Hanyang' and 'Selim that has Grown in the Desert'.

Great collection of short stories that is very diverse. I was often left wanting a continuation of some story lines. Not all stories in this collection are as good as the others.

Finished "Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil" by Carrie Vaughn, which is basically a mini Indiana Jones adventure if Indy were a woman and a princess, and I very much want to know if there's more!Also read "Smoke City" by Christopher Barzak last night, and the world building and imagery there is amazing and beautiful."The Colliers' Venus (1893)" by Caitlin R. Kiernan has excellent world building and structure. I'm also super into the thoughts expressed about time.

This book is a great introduction to those new to steam punk, as well as a treat for those who've read the genre before. A great spread of authors, themes, and settings, and high quality -- there wasn't a single story I didn't enjoy. Carrie Vaughn weighs in with another Harry and Marlowe story (she told me at a book fair last year that she's planning a full length Harry and Marlowe novel!), and there are stories by Ken Liu and other well known authors, as well as many who were new to me. Being a...

30+ steam punk short stories. As with all short story collections, there were some that I really liked and others that I didn't... and as always, the ones that I liked, I wanted to be developed as a full length novel, and the ones that I didn't I was really glad that they were short and I was done with them.

8 SEP 2020. So how come no-one has mentioned the late Jay Lake's repeated use of the derogatory racist W-word in his story Benedice Te? I'm guessing that this particular term of abuse wasn't as commonly used in the US as it was in the UK in my youth. It has largely died out over here - the last time I heard it used was by a gentleman in his 90s, a few years ago. It annoyed me so much that I had to stop reading the story which sucks because I've enjoyed some of the author's other short works.Anot...

A decent compilation of steampunk short stories. some are better than others.

This was a pretty good anthology with some excellent steampunk stories. However, I think the net was cast a bit too wide. Some of the stories didn't seem steampunk at all, but low tech post-apocalyptic stories. If it doesn't have steam or a sort of Victorian flavor, is it really steampunk? I don't think it is.

One of my favorites

I have never read any Steampunk so this seemed to be a good place to start. There are 26 different short stories in here from stars of the genre like Cherie Priest to others that I have never heard of. As with any short story collection you do get a mixed bag. There were some really good ones that captured the essence of Steampunk perfectly, with the machines, dirigibles and automata making you feel that the time machine that you had just stepped out of had bought you to a very different world.

A short story collection of steampunk tales. Most are reprints.Many steampunk stories are set in Victorian England but I’ve read some set in the Wild West settings and of course those set in fantasy worlds with steampunk machines and magic side-by-side and alternate worlds without actual magic. This collection has wide variety of settings from imaginary worlds to Mongolian steppes and rain forests of South-America.The characters are also quite varied. Some of the stories are from “SteamPowered I...

As usual with these compilations the quality was variable, but overall this was a good read. Some of the stories were barely what I would call Steampunk - it was like some of the writers thought they'd better add a clockwork object or two to make their stories more steampunk. My favourite stories were Smoke, by Christopher Barzak, Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil, by Carrie Vaughn, Anna In the Moonlight, by Jonathan Wood, Selin That Has Grown In the Desert, by Alex Dally Ma...

Enjoyed most of the stories