- Gebundene Ausgabe: 432 Seiten
- Verlag: Candlewick (11. Oktober 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0763648434
- ISBN-13: 978-0763648435
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: 12 - 17 Jahre
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,2 x 3 x 23,6 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 447.571 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Steampunk is hot at the moment in literature, art and fashion: This collection taps into the ethos without ever seeming topical or transient, thanks to contributions rich with much more than just steam and brass fittings. . . . An excellent collection, full of unexpected delights.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Veteran editors Link and Grant serve up a delicious mix of original stories from 14 skilled writers and artists...Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines, these often baroque, intensely anachronistic tales should please steampunks of all ages.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Within these pages, there's a little something for everyone...This exceptional anthology does great service to the steampunk subgenre and will do much to further its audience.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Editors Link and Gavin treat fans, old and new, to an array of fantastically rich stories in this polished, outstanding collection...the result is an anthology that is almost impossible to put down... From rebellious motorists to girl bandits, the characters in this imaginative collection shine, and there isn't a weak story in the mix; each one offers depth and delight.
—Booklist (starred review)
It is about time that steampunk short stories really got a focused and creative exploration in YA lit, and this anthology of fourteen pieces is an excellent start.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Veteran editors Link and Grant serve up a delicious mix of original stories from 14 skilled writers and artists...Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines, these often baroque, intensely anachronistic tales should please steampunks of all ages.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Within these pages, there's a little something for everyone...This exceptional anthology does great service to the steampunk subgenre and will do much to further its audience.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Editors Link and Gavin treat fans, old and new, to an array of fantastically rich stories in this polished, outstanding collection...the result is an anthology that is almost impossible to put down... From rebellious motorists to girl bandits, the characters in this imaginative collection shine, and there isn't a weak story in the mix; each one offers depth and delight.
—Booklist (starred review)
It is about time that steampunk short stories really got a focused and creative exploration in YA lit, and this anthology of fourteen pieces is an excellent start.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
Kurzbeschreibung
In the first major YA steampunk anthology, fourteen top storytellers push the genre's mix of sci-fi, fantasy, history, and adventure in fascinating new directions.
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. 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. Here, 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. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. 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. Here, 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. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.
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Not just for young adults
21. September 2011
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I was apprehensive about ordering Steampunk! I love steampunk fiction, but I think of young adult fiction as rather simplistic, consciously wholesome, and often having predictable plots where young people find themselves. I'm glad to report that, aside from most of the protagonists being teenagers, little is conspicuously YA about this anthology. There are twelve short stories, plus two little black-and-white "comic books." For what it's worth, I recognized only six of the authors from my readings of adult steampunk and fantasy--but I also found that I don't care. Most stories contain robots and/or clockwork devices, and many focus on some moral and/or social aspect of making and/or using them. However, there are a few stories I'd call fantasy rather than steampunk.
The opening story, Cassandra Clare's "Some Fortunate Future Day," is beautiful but very bleak. Kelly Link's "The Summer People" is a gorgeous work reminiscent of Elizabeth Hand's "Last Summer at Mars Hill." It's complex, while lacking the trying-too-hard-to-be-literary air of some of Link's other published stories. Delia Sherman's "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" is gently feminist. Ysabeau S. Wilce's "Hand in Glove" is a supernatural film noir romp set in her alternate world of Califa. Holly Black's "Everything Amiable and Obliging" is the one clunker. It imports clichéd Regency romance plot and slang into a standard Victorian steampunk setting, without renewing them by the combination.
I highly recommend this anthology to all steampunk fans. I hope that it is only the first in a series.
The opening story, Cassandra Clare's "Some Fortunate Future Day," is beautiful but very bleak. Kelly Link's "The Summer People" is a gorgeous work reminiscent of Elizabeth Hand's "Last Summer at Mars Hill." It's complex, while lacking the trying-too-hard-to-be-literary air of some of Link's other published stories. Delia Sherman's "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" is gently feminist. Ysabeau S. Wilce's "Hand in Glove" is a supernatural film noir romp set in her alternate world of Califa. Holly Black's "Everything Amiable and Obliging" is the one clunker. It imports clichéd Regency romance plot and slang into a standard Victorian steampunk setting, without renewing them by the combination.
I highly recommend this anthology to all steampunk fans. I hope that it is only the first in a series.
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Family Friendly Steampunk
29. November 2011
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I was going to title my review Steampunk Lite, but thought Family Friendly was a little more indicative of the anthology as a whole. There were a few stories that I thought were barely steampunk. More alternate reality fantasy. But there are a lot of good tales here as well. And would you believe, of the big name authors I recognized, only one of them made it into my top five?
Libba Bray's "Last Ride of the Glory Girls" was my favorite of the anthology. I'm a sucker for Weird Westerns, and this one reminded me favorably of that genre. This story was the most fun to read. Even though I'm a middle aged man, I appreciated the underlying message in "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" by Delia Sherman (but it should be noted I hold "The Yellow Wallpaper-is it horror or angry feminism?-as one of the most powerful stories ever.) While the second graphic novel-type story didn't do much for me, I very much enjoyed the first one included: "Seven Days Beset By Demons" by Shawn Cheng.
Those mentioned in the above paragraph comprise my top three. I also enjoyed the stories by Garth Nix (the one big name whose story I got a kick out of) and Dylan Horrocks. In the Nix story you can't ask yourself, 'who is the villain', you have to ask 'in whom lies the lesser of evils'?
I didn't hate that most of the protagonists were younger, but it didn't make me want to give the collection five stars either. It's solid. It's good. And, to quote a famous movie character, "that's all I have to say about that."
Libba Bray's "Last Ride of the Glory Girls" was my favorite of the anthology. I'm a sucker for Weird Westerns, and this one reminded me favorably of that genre. This story was the most fun to read. Even though I'm a middle aged man, I appreciated the underlying message in "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor" by Delia Sherman (but it should be noted I hold "The Yellow Wallpaper-is it horror or angry feminism?-as one of the most powerful stories ever.) While the second graphic novel-type story didn't do much for me, I very much enjoyed the first one included: "Seven Days Beset By Demons" by Shawn Cheng.
Those mentioned in the above paragraph comprise my top three. I also enjoyed the stories by Garth Nix (the one big name whose story I got a kick out of) and Dylan Horrocks. In the Nix story you can't ask yourself, 'who is the villain', you have to ask 'in whom lies the lesser of evils'?
I didn't hate that most of the protagonists were younger, but it didn't make me want to give the collection five stars either. It's solid. It's good. And, to quote a famous movie character, "that's all I have to say about that."
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Quite a Few Clunkers
19. November 2011
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Steampunk is a fun genre, one I have begun to explore with excitement. While I have not loved all of the steampunk novels I have read to this point, I have uniformly enjoyed the idea behind them, the out-of-place mechanization accepted as normal in an otherwise old-fashioned society. What attracts me most to this, I expect, is the similarity between steampunk and magical realism, the only difference being that the magic lies in the technology.
With such thoughts in mind, I was eager to read this anthology, particularly considering that some authors I already enjoy contributed stories, such as M. T. Anderson, Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray and Cory Doctorow. In fact, these authors cap the anthology. It begins with the stories by the three I listed last and ends with M. T. Anderson's tale.
Despite what should have been a strong beginning, I found the start of the anthology utterly tedious. I did actually Clare's, Bray's and Doctorow's stories, but none of them blew me away. Then, the next four stories I found to be completely awful, the anthology not picking up in quality again until Kelly Link's story, which, while interesting, really did not seem like steampunk so much as science fiction or fantasy, depending upon where the summer people came from.
The latter half of the anthology, though, was totally satisfactory. I enjoyed all of the stories but the graphic novel Finishing School. Speaking of the comics included (Finishing School and Seven Days Beset by Demons), why were they so awful? I love that comics were included and applaud the blending of formats, but really think they could have found something better. Seven Days Beset by Demons was by far the worst story in the anthology, for it lacked plot, carried a heavy-handed religious bent and did not particularly smack of steampunk. Epic fail.
The best stories, in my opinion, were "Steam Girl" by Dylan Horrocks, "Everything Amiable and Obliging" by Holly Black, and "The Oracle Engine" by M. T. Anderson, the final three stories in the anthology. I must admit I am a bit biased against most of the others, because I quickly tired of reading the poor grammar of western characters, who say things like "I done seen them people." No thanks.
If you hate that all steampunk takes place in Victorian England and want to see where else it can be set, then you'll enjoy this wide range of interpretations (although personally, I found the ones in a modern setting a bit odd). Be prepared to slog through a couple of long stories that you might not be especially interested in. Or just skip those and move on.
With such thoughts in mind, I was eager to read this anthology, particularly considering that some authors I already enjoy contributed stories, such as M. T. Anderson, Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray and Cory Doctorow. In fact, these authors cap the anthology. It begins with the stories by the three I listed last and ends with M. T. Anderson's tale.
Despite what should have been a strong beginning, I found the start of the anthology utterly tedious. I did actually Clare's, Bray's and Doctorow's stories, but none of them blew me away. Then, the next four stories I found to be completely awful, the anthology not picking up in quality again until Kelly Link's story, which, while interesting, really did not seem like steampunk so much as science fiction or fantasy, depending upon where the summer people came from.
The latter half of the anthology, though, was totally satisfactory. I enjoyed all of the stories but the graphic novel Finishing School. Speaking of the comics included (Finishing School and Seven Days Beset by Demons), why were they so awful? I love that comics were included and applaud the blending of formats, but really think they could have found something better. Seven Days Beset by Demons was by far the worst story in the anthology, for it lacked plot, carried a heavy-handed religious bent and did not particularly smack of steampunk. Epic fail.
The best stories, in my opinion, were "Steam Girl" by Dylan Horrocks, "Everything Amiable and Obliging" by Holly Black, and "The Oracle Engine" by M. T. Anderson, the final three stories in the anthology. I must admit I am a bit biased against most of the others, because I quickly tired of reading the poor grammar of western characters, who say things like "I done seen them people." No thanks.
If you hate that all steampunk takes place in Victorian England and want to see where else it can be set, then you'll enjoy this wide range of interpretations (although personally, I found the ones in a modern setting a bit odd). Be prepared to slog through a couple of long stories that you might not be especially interested in. Or just skip those and move on.
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