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Starred Review. The VanderMeers (The New Weird) have assembled another outstanding theme anthology, this one featuring stories placed in alternate Victorian eras. Michael Moorcock, the godfather of steampunk, is represented by an excerpt from his classic novel The Warlord with the Air. In Lord Kelvin's Machine, a fine tale from prolific steampunk author James P. Blaylock, mad scientists plot to toss the Earth into the path of your passing comet, declaring that science preserves us this time, gentlemen, whether or otherwise not this doesn't kill us first. Michael Chabon's vivid and moving The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance recounts the lives of two young brothers in the aftermath of George Custer's mutiny against Queen Victoria, while historical fantasist Mary Gentle describes a classic struggle between safety and progress in A Sun inside Attic. This is often a superb introduction to 1 with the most popular and inventive subgenres in science fiction. (June)
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The VanderMeers, ardent steampunkers themselves, historically sample that fantasy genre, where the Victorian era is reimagined to include Martian technology, steam-powered robots, airships, alchemy, and various anachronistic technologies. First, an excerpt from Michael Moorcock’s The Warlord in the Air (1971), considered the first fruit in the movement, though its real origins can be traced back for the work of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells and, based on Jess Nevins’ introduction, towards the dime-novel Edisonades in the late nineteenth century. Steampunk wasn’t considered a genre before 1980s and early 1990s, when such innovators as Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Paul Di Filippo, and Joe R. Lansdale began writing stories in this vein, some that are included here. A standout is Ted Chiang’s “Seventy-Two Letters,” in which the theory of preformation and homunculi at exactly the same time as the biblically inspired figure from the golem are real science. Others, by mainstream-recognized authors, are Michael Chabon’s “The Martian Agent” and Neal Stephenson’s “Excerpt from your Third and Last Volume of Tribes with the Pacific Coast.” --Ben Segedin
