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Contains:

• It's a Steampunk Universe, Victoria essay by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer
• The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk essay by Jeff Nevins
• Benediction (excerpt from The Warlord of the Air) by Michael Moorcock
• Lord Kelvins Machine, by James P. Blaylock
• The Giving Mouth by Ian R. MacLeod
• A Sun in the Attic by Mary Gentle
• The God-Clown is Near by Jay Lake
• The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel by Joe R. Landsdale
• The Selene Gardening Society by Molly Brown
• Seventy-Two Letter by Ted Chiang
• The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance by Michael Chabon
• Victoria by Paul Di Fillipo
• Reflected Light by Rachel E. Pollack
• Minutes of the Last Meeting by Stepan Chapman
• Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of "Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson
• The Steam Driven Time-Machine: A Pop-Culture Survey essay by Rick Klaw
• The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium by Bill Baker

Contents:

• What is Steampunk? - essay by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
• The Gernsback Continuum - (1981) - shortstory by William Gibson
• Great Breakthroughs in Darkness (Being, Early Entries from 'The Secret Encyclopaedia of Photography') - (1992) - shortstory by Marc Laidlaw
• Dr. Lash Remembers - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Unblinking Eye - (2009) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• The Steam Dancer (1896) - (2008) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Cast-Iron Kid - shortfiction by Andrew Knighton
• Machine Maid - (2008) - novelette by Margo Lanagan
• The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe - shortfiction by Ramsey Shehadeh
• The Mechanical Aviary of Emperor Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar - (2010) - shortfiction by Shweta Narayan
• O One - (2003) - shortstory by Chris Roberson
• Wild Copper - (2006) - shortfiction by Samantha Henderson
• The Bold Explorer in the Place Beyond - (2010) - shortstory by David Erik Nelson
• Lost Pages from the Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana - shortfiction by Jess Nevins
• Tanglefoot (A Story of the Clockwork Century) - (2008) - novelette by Cherie Priest
• A Serpent in the Gears - (2010) - shortstory by Margaret Ronald
• The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday - (2009) - novelette by G. D. Falksen
• The Persecution Machine - (1994) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Balfour and Meriwether in the Adventure of the Emperor's Vengeance - (2009) - novelette by Daniel Abraham
• As Recorded on Brass Cylinders: Adagio for Two Dancers - (2010) - shortstory by James L. Grant and Lisa Mantchev
• Flying Fish Prometheus (A Fantasy of the Future) - shortfiction by Vilhelm Bergsøe (trans. of Erindringen fra en Reise med Flyvefisken "Prometheus" 1870)
• The Anachronist's Cookbook - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• Lovelace & Babbage: Origins, with Salamander - shortfiction by Sydney Padua
• A Secret History of Steampunk - shortfiction by The Mecha-Ostrich
• Which is Mightier, the Pen or the Parasol? - essay by Gail Carriger
• At the Intersection of Technology and Romance - essay by Jake Von Slatt
• The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview - essay by various

Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Ann VanderMeer
• Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil - (2012) - shortstory by Carrie Vaughn
• Addison Howell and the Clockroach - (2011) - shortstory by Cherie Priest
• On Wooden Wings - (2011) - shortstory by Paolo Chikiamco
• Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing - (2011) - shortstory by Lev Grossman
• The Heart Is the Matter - shortfiction by Malissa Kent
• Mother Is a Machine - (2005) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Possession - (2007) - shortfiction by Ben Peek
• Beatrice - (2012) - shortfiction by Karin Tidbeck (trans. of Beatrice 2010)
• Arbeitskraft - (2012) - novelette by Nick Mamatas
• Study, for Solo Piano - (2011) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• Beside Calais - (2012) - shortstory by Samantha Henderson
• An Exhortation to Young Writers (Advice Tendered by Poor Mojo's Giant Squid) - shortfiction by David Erik Nelson and Morgan Johnson and Fritz Swanson
• A Handful of Rice - shortfiction by Vandana Singh
• Fixing Hanover - (2008) - novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• Salvage - (2011) - shortstory by Margaret Ronald
• Urban Drift - (2010) - shortfiction by Andrew Knighton
• Ascension - (2012) - shortfiction by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
• Nowhere Fast - (2011) - novelette by Christopher Rowe
• The Effluent Engine - (2011) - shortfiction by N. K. Jemisin
• To Follow the Waves - (2011) - shortfiction by Amal El-Mohtar
• Captain Bells and the Sovereign State of Discordia - shortfiction by June Yang
• The Seventh Expression of the Robot General - (2008) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
• The Stoker Memorandum - (2012) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• Smoke City - (2011) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Goggles (c.1910) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Peace in Our Time - (2011) - shortstory by Garth Nix
• White Fungus - (2009) - shortfiction by Bruce Sterling
• Winding Down the House: Towards a Steampunk Without Steam - essay by Amal El-Mohtar
• Steampunk Shapes Our Future - essay by Margaret Killjoy
• From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground - essay by Jaymee Goh
• The (R)Evolution of Steampunk - essay by Austin Sirkin