Diana M. Pho

Nevertheless, She Persisted

Ken Liu

Lucy A. Snyder

Pip Ballantine

Malon Edwards

Maurice Broaddus

Jody Lynn Nye

Matthew Bright

Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

Andrew Knighton

Liam Hogan

Emily B. Cataneo

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

Suna Dasi

Lyndsay E. Gilbert

Candida Spillard

Kate Coe

Zach Chapman

Fiction has a special role in the way we relate to each other. Fiction can take us outside of our own experience and give us a small hint of what it's like to be someone else. Speculative fiction - including steampunk - has always been a metaphorical mirror to our own society, allowing us to see ourselves and our behaviors from the outside in ways that we otherwise couldn't. It's not magic. It's the interworking of dozens of finely machined gears. It's the craftswoman adjusting the tension on a spring so it doesn't break. It's the stoker making sure the furnace fires stay burning. It's the conductor collecting tickets, the passengers watching the landscape roll by, the excited child standing next to the engineer who gets to pull the cord and hear the train's steam whistle. It might not be magic, but it's still amazing. Especially with a project like Steampunk Universe, making an anthology of steampunk stories that feature diverse characters who are disabled or aneurotypical. Join editor Sarah Hans, our cover artist James Ng, and contributors Ken Liu, Jody Lynn Nye, Maurice Broaddus, Malon Edwards, Emily Cataneo, Pip Ballantine and nine others today.

Steampunk Universe

Ambelin Kwaymullina

Sarah Chorn

John Hartness

Merc Rustad

19 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Aliette de Bodard. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust. Full table of contents: Introduction, by Aliette de Bodard "Breaking Mirrors," by Diana M. Pho "I'm Not Broken," by Annalee Flower Horne "Next Year in Jerusalem," by Gabrielle Harbowy "I am Not Hispanic, I am Puerto Rican," by Isabel Schechter "No More Dried Up Spinsters," by Nancy Jane Moore "False Expectations," by Matthew Thyer "Text, Subtext, and Pieced-Together Lives," by Angelia Sparrow "Parenting as a Fan of Color," by Kat Tanaka Okopnik "Alien of Extraordinary Ability? by Bogi Takács "Accidental Representation," by Chrysoula Tzavelas "Discovering the Other," by John Hartness "Lost in the Margins," by Sarah Chorn "Too Niche," by Lauren Jankowski "Fat Chicks in SFF," by Alis Franklin "Not Your Mystical Indian," by Jessica McDonald "Exponentially Hoping," by Merc Rustad "Colonialism, Land, and Speculative Fiction: An Indigenous Perspective," by Ambelin Kwaymullina "Nobody's Sidekick: Intersectionality in Protagonists," by SL Huang "The Danger of the False Narrative," by LaShawn Wanak Afterword, by Jim C. Hines Reading List

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