Paul Di Filippo

The Steampunk Trilogy

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Produktbeschreibung

An outrageous trio of novellas that bizarrely and brilliantly twists the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of steampunk alternate history Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfection—reinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In “Victoria,” the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelgänger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian “Hottentots” chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz, as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in “Walt and Emily,” the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous glory—as are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality. Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippo’s The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781497626584
• ISBN-10: 1497626587
• Artikelnr.: 40925833

Autorenporträt

Paul Di Filippo

Inhaltsangabe

1. Dedication
2. Contents
3. Victoria
* 1. Politics at Midnight
* 2. A Train Straight to China
* 3. The Man with the Silver Nose
* 4. A Woman Called Otto
* 5. The Fatal Dance
* 6. Treachery at Carking Fardels
* 7. What Everyone Else Knew
4. Hottentots
* 1. The Face of an Ape
* 2. Sinus Pudoris
* 3. Whale Bones
* 4. What the Postman Brought
* 5. A Sticky Situation
* 6. One or One Hundred?
* 7. Sewing on a Button
* 8. A Fish’s Story
* 9. Moby Dagon
5. Walt and Emily
* 1. “Morning Means Just Risk—to the Lover”
* 2. “Death Is the Supple Suitor”
* 3. “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”
* 4. “Inebriate of Air—Am I—”
* 5. “Microscopes Are Prudent in an Emergency”
* 6. “By What Mystic Mooring She Is Held Today”
* 7. “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers”
* 8. “The Spirit Looks Down on the Dust”
* 9. “Land Ho! Eternity!”
* 10. “Dropped Into the Ether Acre—Wearing the Sod Gown”
* 11. “The Grass So Little Has to Do, I Wish I Were a Hay”
* 12. “How Odd the Girl’s Life Looks Behind This Soft Eclipse”
* 13. “There Was a Little Figure Plump for Every Little Knoll”
* 14. “An Ear Can Break a Human Heart as Quickly as a Spear”
6. About the Author