The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

10 best books like The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (Sean Wallace): Steampunk, Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, The Warlord of the Air, New Amsterdam, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, The Code of the Woosters, The Wandering Earth, Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables, Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, 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...

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

Author	Kelly Link
ISBN	0763648434

Fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, from Appalachia, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California, create alternate universes where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks,...

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...

The Code of the Woosters

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	0393339815

No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.

The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...

The Wandering Earth

Author

Liu Cixin

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.

I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.

The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash,...

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...

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...

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...

Ghost Stories

Author	Peter Washington
ISBN	0307269248

A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.

The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s...

Tails of Wonder and Imagination

Author	Ellen Datlow
ISBN	1597801704

What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.

From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination,...

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...

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...

The Great Automatic Grammatizator (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

Author

Roald Dahl

The Great Automatic Grammatizator is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.

In The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a powerful computer...

Tales from the Inner City

Author	Shaun Tan
ISBN	1338298402

Book Reviewed by Stacey on www.whisperingstories.com

Tales from the Inner City is a strange, yet an eye-opening book about co-existing with animals and what they can teach us about ourselves. It is a book for older children, teenagers, and even adults.

With twenty-five stories...

Emerson: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)

Author	Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN	1400043166

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.

Known for challenging traditional thought and for...