Please find below the cover of the forthcoming Steampunk romance anthology from Ticonderoga, Kisses by Clockwork, edited by Liz Grzyb. It will feature 16 stories of Steampunk romance. pre-orders can be made through Indiebooksonline.com
The TOC is as follows:
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For Steampunk fans you will be glad to know that the TOC forthe Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures has been released. Lots of good names including some up and comers like Benjanun Sriduangkaew. The release dates are advertised as August 2014 (UK) and October 2014 (US), so I am guessing that Australia might get it at the same time as the UK.
- Marilag Angway, "Smuggler's Deal"
- Cherith Baldry, "The Venetian Cat"
- Gio Clairval, "The Writing Cembalo"
- M L D Curelas, "Ironclad"
- Ray Dean, "Practically Perfect"
- Stephanie Gunn, "Escapement"
- Richard Harland, "The Kiss of Reba Maul"
- Rebecca Harwell, "Love in the Time of Clockwork Horses"
- Faith Mudge, "Descension"
- Nicole Murphy, "The Wild Colonial Clockwork Boy"
- Katrina Nicholson, "Lady Presto Magnifico and the Disappearing Glass Ceiling"
- Anthony Panegyres, "The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople"
- Amanda Pillar, "A Clockwork Heart"
- Angela Rega, "The Law of Love"
- Carol Ryles, "Siri and the Chaos-Maker"
- DC White, "South, to Glory"
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but not today. Some may have wondered if my relative silence was as a result of a head injury after the fainting fit induced by being nominated for 2 Ditmars, it was thankfully not the case. Though I did have a rather sleepless night which wasn’t good considering Friday was my first day back at work.
But work is good, work means the likelihood of getting to Continuum 8 is greater. So expect some sporadic quietness around these parts as I jump upon any paying work.
I do intend to do a post on each of the Ditmar Categories in the lead up to the event. There’s some great people and product in that list and I have read a great deal of them in the past year, so feel invested in the awards already. So tomorrow or the next day.
I am celebrating my wife's 39 and 12 months birthday this weekend which will also take up much of my time.
But before I go check out Trent Jamieson’s release details for the sequel to Roil(sadly not on the list despite my nominating efforts).
Trent Jamison talks Night’s Engines
The Nightbound Land has been with me since around 1999 and since then I’ve been married, moved house several times, changed jobs, sold short stories and, eventually, novels. It’s one of those projects that I should have perhaps let go long before it sold, but I never could.
I’ve learnt almost everything I know about writing books by writing these. And, to be honest, delivering Night’s Engines put me in a bit of a spin at the end of 2011. There’s so many books I want to write, so many different things that I am working on, but when I delivered that book – my fifth in two years – it really felt like I’d pulled a big chunk of my heart out of my chest and dropped it on my desk. To say it was hard to get going on things again is an understatement. Which isn’t to say that I haven’t been writing, but there’s been a rather large element of aimlessness to it.
Oh and expect a review of The Return Man by V.M. Zito and Westwood’s, The Courier's New Bicycle in the coming week.
or as they like to call it Neo Victorian.
It’s described as a first person stealth action game.
The Setting
The game is set in a world that blends both the past, future, and things in-between, of our reality. Nobles ride in carriages, masses of man-eating rats lurk in the dark gutters, the sound of automated factories can be heard in the distance, and towering war-machines prowl the cobbled streets.
The economy of the world, which is going well into its industrial age, is booming with the success of a useful, multipurpose fuel: Whale oil. Locations include the desolate Isles, the mighty Pandyssian Continent, and the city of Dunwall. [source]
But hey if that description doesn’t get your cogs spinning check out the cinematic trailer below.
I have been nominated to run in this years fan fund for the National Science Fiction Convention to be held in Melbourne.
If you appreciate the work that I do in Australian Speculative Fiction Fandom and you have a spare $5, you can vote for me here and help send me to the National Conference
I have the previous two volumes and the Steampunk Bible, so this will probably be a Christmas present for me.
Ann Vandermeer’s got the table of contents nailed down as well. I note a couple of Australians as well as a fairly gender balanced set of contributors.
GBR -14F:17M
Feast your eyes on the TOC below
Fiction
“Smoke City” by Christopher Barzak
“On Wooden Wings” by Paolo Chikiamco
“To Follow the Waves” by Amal El-Mohtar
“The Seventh Expression of the Robot General” by Jeffrey Ford
“Sir Ranulph Wykeham-Rackham” by Lev Grossman
“Beside Calais” by Samantha Henderson
“Ascencion” by Leow Hui Min Annabeth
“The Effluent Engine” by N.K. Jemison
“Goggles (c.1910)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (original)
“The Heart is the Matter” by Malissa Kent (original)
“Urban Drift” by Andrew Knighton
“Arbeitskraft” by Nick Mamatas
“An Exhortation to Young Writers” by David Erik Nelson, Morgan Johnson, and Fritz Swanson
“Peace in Our Time” by Garth Nix
“Possession” by Ben Peek
“Clockroach” by Cherie Priest (new expanded version)
“Salvage” by Margaret Ronald
“Nowhere Fast” by Christopher Rowe
“A Handful of Rice” by Vandana Singh (original novelette)
“White Fungus” by Bruce Sterling
“Beatrice” by Karin Tidbeck (first time in English)
“Abraham Stoker’s Journal” by Lavie Tidhar
“Mother is a Machine” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Study, for Solo Piano” by Genevieve Valentine
“Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer
“Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn
“Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” by J.Y. Yang
Nonfiction
“Towards a Steampunk Without Steam” by Amal El-Mohtar (new expanded version)
“From Airships of Imagination to Feet on the Ground” by Jaymee Goh (original)
“Steampunk Shapes Our Future” by Margaret Killjoy (original)
“The (R)Evolution of Steampunk” by Austin Sirkin (original)
Panhandling:
I have been nominated to run in this years fan fund for the National Science Fiction Convention to be held in Melbourne. If you appreciate the work that I do in Australian Speculative Fiction Fandom and you have a spare $5, you can vote for me here and help send me to the National Conference.
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The sad news about this novella is that if you live outside the US you’re unlikely to be able to get an eBook version legally.
The Hardcover released by Subterranean Press is a collectors item retailing on Amazon at around the $95 mark.
You may be able to get a Audio download through Audible, but I have not investigated the process.
All this hassle is such a shame for what is a nice little jaunt in the Clockwork Century world.
The Story
Captain Hainey, ex-slave, now pirate captain is in hot pursuit of his airship which has been stolen - the fact that he stole it originally is beside the point. No one steals from Croggon Beauregard Hainey.
Isabella Boyd is an ex –confederate spy employed by the Pinkertons to ensure that a certain stolen airship gets to its destination.
Two powerful personalities heading towards each other should mean carnage, and it does but not, as it turns out, for each other. Croggon and Isabella become unlikely allies in a short, fast paced steampunk adventure, featuring armoured airships and weapons of mass destruction.
The ever resourceful Miss Boyd
Indeed Rachael McAdams in her role as Irene Adler springs to mind as an excellent casting choice should this tale get optioned.
A tale of two publishers
Clementine was written for Subterranean Press. Boneshaker, the first full length novel was written under contract with another publishing house, and while Priest was able to write for other publishers in the Clockwork Century world, there were restrictions, as I understand it, on the size of the work.
And that to my mind is the only drawback of this work, it’s over all too soon. It’s a beautifully written book with some wonderful dialogue and great action sequences. It is a nice addition to Priest’s alternate history.
Here’s hoping that with Boneshaker being optioned we might see a rerelease?
If you’re a fan of the Clockwork Century you’ll probably have it all ready. If you want a taste of some of the best recent steampunk it’s worth picking up. For those of us living outside the US it will prove difficult to get and I fear not worth the hassle.
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I have no idea how long it will remain at this price. The sequel is currently retailing around the $12 mark.
This was my first purchase using Google ebooks, and it went very smoothly. You do need to click on a link to download the file as the system defaults to the Google ebook browser.
I would also be interested in knowing international readers can access the book through the above link?
To say that she was happy is an understatement. The book has been described as Jules Verne meets resident evil and that’s a pretty good description.
The film will be co produced by Hammer and Cross Creek Pictures. Adapting Priest’s work will be John Hilary Shepherd who garnered award nominations for his writing on the comedy drama Nurse Jackie.
