Clockwork Fagin (Free Preview of a story from Steampunk!)

English

ISBN: 2370004262

EAN: 2370004262789

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Release Date: 09/13/2011

Synopsis: Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. In Steampunk!, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre's established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, Ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Get a preview of the anthology by sampling one of these inventive tales for free-Cory Doctorow's "Clockwork Fagin," in which orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives.

Clockwork Fagin (Free Preview of a story from Steampunk!)

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF