Book Review: Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories | Edited by Kelly Link & Gavin Grant

Steampunk! front cover

Title: Steampunk!
Sub-title: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Editors: Kelly Link, Gavin Grant
Authors: Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Cory Doctorow, Shawn Cheng, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Delia Sherman, Elizabeth Knox, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Christopher Rowe, Kathleen Jennings, Dylan Horrocks, Holly Black, M. T. Anderson
ISBN: 9780763648435
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Genre: Anthologies, Short Stories, Fantasy, Steampunk, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Website: http://www.strangeandfascinating.com/

I bought this book for only 150.00 php. at The Book Snoop. I decided to buy this book because of its fancy cover and also, because I wanted to try reading a Steampunk genre.

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Steampunk! rear cover

Steampunk! deckle edge

Steampunk! Sample comics

This is the first steampunk genre I read. I really want to try the genre as it's not a common one modern authors wants to write about. Skimming the table of contents, some of the author's name are already familiar to me. Like Holly Black, I like her short story she wrote in this book "Everything Amiable and Obliging". I read Holly Black's book before. I even reviewed it here, see Spiderwick book review here.

I like some of the stories and I didn't like some of it. This book gives me a mood swing because every story has a different setting. It's not easy to move on with the previous story and you'll take a new story next with different twist. It also gets me confuse with the time period of each story in which I will later realize about where they're in near the story's end. I can't picture some of the mechanical things they've mentioned in the book. If you're not familiar with Wild Wild West, Alice Through the Looking Glass and other films with steampunk theme, you may consult your smartphone and Google every steampunk things you don't understand in this book.

What I like most in this book is that they put Comics too (see below):

Steampunk! - Seven Days Beset by Demons by Shawn Cheng sample page

Here's my rating for each story:

3.3 / 5.0 - “Some Fortunate Future Day” by Cassandra Clare
1.0 / 5.0 - “The Last Ride of the Glory Girls” by Libba Bray
2.5 / 5.0 - “Clockwork Fagin” by Cory Doctorow
4.5 / 5.0 - “Seven Days Beset by Demons” (comic) by Shawn Cheng
3.5 / 5.0 - “Hand in Glove” by Ysabeau S. Wilce
2.8 / 5.0 - “The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor” by Delia Sherman
2.9 / 5.0 - “Gethsemene” by Elizabeth Knox
3.0 / 5.0 - “The Summer People” by Kelly Link
3.5 / 5.0 - “Peace in Our Time” by Garth Nix
2.9 / 5.0 - “Nowhere Fast” by Christopher Rowe
3.0 / 5.0 - “Finishing School” (comic) by Kathleen Jennings
2.9 / 5.0 - “Steam Girl” by Dylan Horrocks
3.0 / 5.0 - “Everything Amiable and Obliging” by Holly Black
4.0 / 5.0 - "The Oracle Engine" by M. T. Anderson

I'd give it an average rating of: 3.0 / 5.0
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Otakore Literantadodist
April 22, 2017

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Reference:

• Goodreads user review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1807386569