Tails of Wonder and Imagination

10 best books like Tails of Wonder and Imagination (Ellen Datlow): Steampunk, The Warlord of the Air, New Amsterdam, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables, The Jack Vance Treasury, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, The Peshawar Lancers, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, Morlock Night

Steampunk

Author	Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN	1892391759

Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative...

The Warlord of the Air

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0441870600

Suppose that a few of our present inventions had been made earlier, and others not discovered at all? How would the last century have evolved differently?

This is the story of Oswald Bastable, a Victorian captain who found himself in such alternate worlds. It is based on notes handed down to...

New Amsterdam

Author	Elizabeth Bear
ISBN	1596061065

Abigail Irene Garrett drinks too much. She makes scandalous liaisons with inappropriate men, and if in her youth she was a famous beauty, now she is both formidable--and notorious. She is a forensic sorceress, and a dedicated officer of a Crown that does not deserve her loyalty. She has nothing, but...

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti

Author	Genevieve Valentine
ISBN	1607012537

Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...

Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

Author

Stephen L. Antczak

Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.…

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Red Shoes", New...

The Jack Vance Treasury

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	1596060778

A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.

Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers...

Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories

Author	JoSelle Vanderhooft
ISBN	1610401506

The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant...

The Peshawar Lancers

Author	S.M. Stirling
ISBN	0451458737

In the mid-1870s, civilization froze in time when comets hit the earth. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together. In the 21st century, boats still run on steam, messages are delivered by telegraph, and the British Empire controls much of the world from its capital...

Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

Author	Sarah Monette
ISBN	1607013053

Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms-dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory-they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of...

Morlock Night

Author	K.W. Jeter
ISBN	0586204385

I read this for a challenge. It was a challenge.

This is Steampunk, as I go with legs  kicking and arms flailing into a genre that two weeks ago I'd never even heard of.  Time machines; the infamous Merlin the Magician; an apocalyptic invasion;  long walks at night, not to mention a submarine...

Happily Ever After

Author	John Klima
ISBN	1597802204

Once Upon A Time...

...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...

And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

Author	Sean Wallace
ISBN	0762444681

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.

An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.

This is...

The Women of Nell Gwynne's

Author	Kage Baker
ISBN	1596062509

Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne's. Nell Gwynne's...

Wild Cards and Iron Horses

Author

Sheryl Nantus

Their love rides on a spring and a prayer...

During the recent Civil War, a soldier risked his life to save Jonathan Handleston—and lost. With the help of an advanced metal brace on his crippled hand, Jon now travels from one poker tournament to the next, determined to earn enough money to repay...

Other Worlds Than These

Author	John Joseph Adams
ISBN	1597804339

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?

We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz...

Other Earths

Author	Nick Gevers
ISBN	0756405467

Eleven original stories about the different paths our world might've taken...

Alternate history explores the many possible directions our world could follow if certain key events didn't occur at all or were changed in some crucial way. Is our Earth the only Earth, our reality the only one...

Heart of Light

Author	Sarah A. Hoyt
ISBN	0553589660

Set in a magical Victorian British Empire that never was, this unique fantasy blends adventure, intrigue, and romance, as a newlywed couple embark on a dangerous quest--and, in the process, discover their own heart's desires. On a luxury magic carpetship in 1889, an English couple travel to Cairo...

Miss Bramble and the Leviathan

Author

Kristen Painter

The last thing she planned to steal was his heart.

The Company. Military institution, protector of Praeton and the nation of Grand Isle. Dirty rotten thief.

When Pandora Bramble steps aboard the Company s premiere airship Daedalus it s not for the exclusive VIP tour. It s to secure...