Solaris Books editor Christian Dunn has commissioned an original anthology to be edited by Nick Gevers. Titled Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology, it will feature work by (tentatively): Daniel Abraham, Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Beth Bernobich, Eric Brown, Keith Brooke, Paul Di Filippo, Hal Duncan, Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Margo Lanagan, James Lovegrove, Ian R. MacLeod, Michael Moorcock, James Morrow, Kim Newman, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Jeff VanderMeer and Marly Youmans.
In addition to fiction on paper, Solaris has commissioned the steampunk artist Alex CF, of “Many Dead Things”, to
“produce a major new contraption to be used in the cover photography for the book.”
Solaris expects to publush the book in paperback simultaneously in the US and the UK in Fall 2008. Dunn said of the deal “Extraordinary Engines is an absolutely top-hole anthology featuring work by some of the finest minds in the Empire and Colonies. The perfect book to take on safari or long constitutionals, and an ideal accompaniment to afternoon tea and tiffin.”
Gevers is a South African science fiction editor and critic whose work has appeared in
The Washington Post Book World, Interzone, and other places. He is also an editor for PS Publishing, working on, among other things, their quarterly genre fiction magazine, Postscripts.