A press release from Scott H. Andrews of Beneath Ceaseless Skies:
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the pro-rate fantasy e-zine that specializes in secondary-world fantasy, has just released their third e-book anthology: Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine.
“Many of the best and most inventive stories we’ve published in the four years of BCS have been steampunk,” says Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Scott H. Andrews. “Something in that combination of early industrial technology and pre-modern culture offers great opportunity for awe and wonder. We at BCS love to feel awe in fantastical settings, and we love stories that set characters into motion in such imaginative worlds.”
The eighteen stories in Ceaseless Steam feature a gardensmith crafting fanciful clockworks to enchant his noblewoman love, a restless librarian who yearns to escape a city that bounces up and down in the sky, and a flock of clockwork birds trying to redeem their Jaguar Knight creator. Their authors include Margaret Ronald, Yoon Ha Lee, 2012 Nebula Award finalist Tom Crosshill, and 2009 Campbell Award finalists Aliette de Bodard and Tony Pi.
Ceaseless Steam is available from select ebook retailers. For links and more information, see this page.
Table of Contents:
“Salvage” by Margaret Ronald
“The Curse of Chimère” by Tony Pi
“To the Gods of Time and Engines, a Gift” by Dean Wells
“Clockwork Heart, Clockwork Soul” by Kris Dikeman
“The Leafsmith in Love” by K.J. Kabza
“Cold Iron and Green Vines” by Wendy N. Wagner
“The Secret of Pogopolis” by Matthew Bey
“Kreisler’s Automata” by Matthew David Surridge
“The God Thieves” by Derek Künsken
“Playing for Amarante” by A.B. Treadwell
“Six Seeds” by Sara M. Harvey
“Waiting for Number Five” by Tom Crosshill
“The Motor, the Mirror, the Mind” by T.F. Davenport
“Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood” by Aliette de Bodard
“The Manufactory” by Dru Pagliassotti
“Architectural Constants” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Calibrated Allies” by Marissa Lingen
“The Mathematics of Faith” by Jonathan Wood