Other Aether: Tales of Global Steampunk

by Greg Schauer (editor), Ackley-McPhail (editor), Beth Cato (contributor)

217 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2024

About the author

Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for over fifteen years. Her works include the urban fantasies, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, and The Halflings Court: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale. She has edited the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, and No Longer Dreams, and has contributed to numerous other anthologies and collections, including Dark Furies, Breach the Hull, So It Begins, Space Pirates, Barbarians at the Jumpgate, and New Blood.

She is a member of The Garden State Horror Writers, the New Jersey Authors Network, and Broad Universe, a writers organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres.

Danielle lives somewhere in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats. She can be found on LiveJournal (damcphail, badassfaeries, darkquestbooks), Facebook (Danielle Ackley-McPhail), and Twitter (DMcPhail). To learn more about her work, visit www.sidhenadaire.com or www.badassfaeries.com.
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Reviews

[Clay Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book with a collection of short stories of super natural and steampunk tales of varying quality.

[Julian White]

Early Kickstarter copy (epub) 9781956463323; 151 pages

Another intriguing collection - steampunk stories in several different times and places including feudal Japan and nineteenth century America. I enjoyed the odd 'pop' at Edison, with Tesla being more popular!

[Cindy Topp · Rating 4 out of 5]

It´s a whirlwind tour across the globe courtesy of this diverting anthology, perfectly capturing, in the short stories, the true, quirky, lovable nature of steampunk. Each chapter offers a fresh take and unique focus on the genre, and makes for fine reading, whether you choose to binge.read in one sitting, or savor the gaslight imaginings more slowly, to ponder, afterwards. A book to please almost any taste in its variety, I became so involved, I caught myself wishing that they were all available in glorious full novel length, they were that enjoyable. Informative author`s notes at the back
Disclaimer: I received an advance review copy from the publisher, eSpec Books, for free, and am leaving a review voluntarily.

[Annarella · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love steampunk god and read this anthologies as there's a lot of excellent stories
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

[Maurizio Codogno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Qualità molto disuguale, meglio gli ultimi racconti

[Disclaimer: Ho ricevuto il libro grazie al programma Early Reviewer di LibraryThing]
Quello di steampunk è un concetto molto ampio, come del resto lo è la fantascienza; non è strano dunque che in una collezione di racconti la qualità è variabile, e questo è in effetti il caso in questa raccolta. Segnalo subito che le storie che mi sono piaciute di più sono al fondo del libri, quindi se lo prendete non scoraggiatevi! Recensioni telegrafiche:
▪ The Kami of the Mountain (Cynthia Radthorne): Uno steampunk giapponese è buffo. 4/5
▪ No Safe Harbour (Aaron Rosenberg): No, non è steampunk, e comunque la storia non funziona. 2/5
▪ Mervat in the Maiden's Tower (Jeff Young): Il finale inaspettato migliora il racconto. 4/5
▪ Ghosts in the Infernal Machine (Ef Deal): "scienza a vapore", ma una trama molto debole. 2/5
▪ The Sand Boat (James Chambers): Funzionerebbe meglio se uno avesse già letto altre storie con quei personaggi. 3/5
▪ Justice Runs Like Clockwork (Christine Norris): Carina, anche se un po' tirata per i capelli. 4/5
▪ On the Wings of an Angel (Danielle Ackley-McPhail) L'ho mollato. L'inglese degli stati confederali è impossibile.
▪ No One Alone (David Lee Summers): Triste ma interessante. 4/5
▪ Correspondence Transcribed in Code, Addressed to the Widowed Mrs. Clydebank (Beth Cato): Costruito molto bene: non so quanto steampunk, ma carino. 5/5
▪ The Merrie Monarch's Mecha (Hildy Silverman): Il migliore del gruppo, secondo me potrebbe essere ampliato in un libro. 5/5