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This is a first edition of the Fall River edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. The book was first published by Nonstop Press in 2010 as Steampunk Prime. Published without a dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear to the edges. Very minor bump at head and tail of book spine.
SYNOPSIS: “In these astonishingly forward-thinking science-fiction stories from the steam-shrouded, technology-obsessed Victorian age, the characters look forward to the wonders that new innovations might bring, from chess-playing robots to gravity-defying aerocars, as well as the catastrophic dangers that might ensure.
Contents: Foreword by Paul di Filippo; *Introduction: When Steampunk Was Real by Mike Ashley; *Mr. Broadbent’s Information by Henry A. Hering; *The Automaton by Reginald Bacchus & Ranger Gull; *The Abduction of Alexandra Seine by Fred C. Smale; *The Gibraltar Tunnel by Jean Jaubert; *From Pole to Pole by George Griffith; *In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop; *The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings by L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace; *The Plague of Lights by Owen Oliver; *What the Rats Brought by Ernest Favenc; *The Great Catastrophe by George Davey; *Within an Ace of the End of the World by Robert Barr; *An Interplanetary Rupture by Frank L. Packard; *The Last Days of Earth by George C. Wallis; *The Plunge by George Allen England.”
Packed weight 980gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH
