Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution -

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Résumé :
Playfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernized technology, the wildly popular steampunk genre is here to stay. Now...long live the revolution!

Steampunk Revolution features a renegade collective of writers and artists, including steampunk legends and hot, new talents rebooting the steam-driven past and powering it into the future. Lev Grossman's Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham, GBE, a.k.a. Roboticus the All-Knowing is the Six-Million-Dollar Steampunk Man, possessing appendages and workings recycled from metal parts, yet also fully human, resilient, and determined. Bruce Sterling's White Fungus introduces steampunk's younger cousin, salvage-punk, speculating on how cities will be built in the future using preexisting materials. Cat Valente's Mother Is a Machine explores the merging of man and machine and a whole new form of parenting. In Jeff VanderMeer's anti-steampunk story Fixing Hanover, a creator must turn his back on his creation because it is so utterly destructive. And Cherie Priest presents The Clockroach, a new and very unsettling mode of transportation.

Going far beyond corsets and goggles, Steampunk Revolution is not just your great-great-great-granddad's zeppelin...--it's an even wilder ride....

Biographie:
Ann VanderMeer is the Hugo Award--winning editor of Weird Fiction Review. She was the fiction editor at Weird Tales and the publisher of Buzzcity Press, work for which received the British Fantasy, International Horror Guild, and Rhysling awards. An expert on Victoriana, she is the co-editor of the bestselling World Fantasy Award--nominated Steampunk series. Her other anthologies include the Best American Fantasy and Leviathan series, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, The New Weird, and Last Drink, Bird Head.

It is as if a mad scientist had done all his shopping at Victoriana instead of Sharper Image ... effectively captures what the steampunk genre is all about. -- Los Angeles Times on Steampunk Beautiful, often lyrical, frequently disturbing, always exciting, and occasionally even funny, but they're also dense, literary, and trusting of the reader to be smart enough to 'get' it. -- New York Journal of Books on Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded Steampunk isn't just about Victorians playing with cogs and gears; these stories (and a few essays) reveal some of the latest steps in this branch of speculative fiction's evolution. --www.Shelf-Awareness.com Demonstrates the power of a well-orchestrated collection... A must-have for any fan of the subgenre. --www.BeyondVictoriana.com The 27 stories gathered here are therefore noteworthy both because of their subject matter as well as for the way they stretch the stylistics of Steampunk in new and different directions. --www.bookgasm.com This third edition is the best yet... Steampunk III is a strong and sharp collection of writing. You don't have to be a fan of steampunk--or even really know what it is--to enjoy this work. -- January Magazine , Best Books of 2012 These stories have something everyone can enjoy. --www.SFSite.com