Project Manager Sarah Zettel writes that Book View Café is going punk. “Steampunk, that is. The Shadow Conspiracy: Tales from the Age of Steam is the latest release from the authors of Book View Café under their own Book View Press imprint.
“The stories of The Shadow Conspiracy revolve around the premise that something else happened on the stormy summer of 1816 at the gathering of poets, far beyond the creation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. These tales focus on the dreamers, experimenters, and engineers of this alternative timeline who work their mechanical and metaphysical magic both for good… and evil.” The anthology is edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Laura Anne Gilman, and is (or will be) available for the Kindle, Sony eReader, B&N Nook, “and a wide variety of smartphone reader apps.”
The table of contents is:
“The Accumulating Man” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
“The Persistence of Souls” by Sarah Zettel
“The Soul Jar” by Steven Harper
“Zombi” by Pati Nagle
“A Princess of Wittgenstein” by Jennifer Stevenson
“The Savage and the Monster” by Nancy Jane Moore
“The Water Weapon” by Brenda Clough
“The Sisters of Perpetual Adoration” by Judith Tarr
“Shadow Dancer” by Irene Radford
Additionally, to celebrate the launch, BVC is be holding a twitter fic contest from now through 17 December. The subject of the contest is machines and monsters. The first place winner will receive an ebook copy of The Shadow Conspiracy and a hardcover edition of editor Laura Anne Gilman’s Flesh and Fire. Second place winner will receive an ebook copy of The Shadow Conspiracy and a hardcover edition of P.R. Frost’s Faery Moon. Details are available on the BVC twitter fic contest page.