Steam-Powered

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 asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco¿s eccentric empire. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each character is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered push steampunk to its limits and beyond. ¿From colonial India to New Orleans in slavery times, from a rogue San Francisco to the Lower East Side of old New York, these stories are thoughtful, wide-ranging, exciting, and often very, very sexy. Anybody who thinks that ¿steampunk¿ and ¿lesbian¿ are niche interests should read Steam-Powered and get their horizons seriously expanded.¿ ¿Delia Sherman, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner and author of Through a Brazen Mirror.