John Biggs

Jeremy Megargee

S. D. Hintz

Somer Canon

Deb Jannerson

Dawn Vogel

Adrian Ludens

Lynda Clark

Eddie Generous

Leigh Harlen

Kate Coe

Shannon Iwanski

Christine Lejewski

Lisa Finch

Kim Munsamy

Joseph Shelton

Theric Jepson

Joni Chng

Chris Kuriata

Donna A. Leahey

Michelle Ann King

J. A. W. McCarthy

Death is permanent. This is the falsehood that we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. It's the lie that we tell our children so they don't carry their kitten's corpse to the old cemetery deep in the forest. It's the myth that we wrap ourselves in so we can ignore the gut-wrenching terror of what really follows deaththe unfathomable unkno

The Misbehaving Dead

Ken Liu

Lucy A. Snyder

Pip Ballantine

Malon Edwards

Maurice Broaddus

Jody Lynn Nye

Matthew Bright

Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

Andrew Knighton

Liam Hogan

Diana M. Pho

Emily B. Cataneo

Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

Suna Dasi

Lyndsay E. Gilbert

Candida Spillard

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

Kate Coe

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