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Ghosts By Gaslight: Stories Of Steampunk And Supernatural Suspense (2011)

by Jack Dann(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061999717 (ISBN13: 9780061999710)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Harper Voyager

review 1: Before taking this book home, I should have checked ths contents page to see if the number of female authors is about the same as the number of male authors. This book is almost all male authors, that's typical in the loggia experience of dismissiveness toward female authors and female characters and female experience. I realize such editors don't generally do that on purpose, but they are very clearly conditioned by patriarchy and misogyny without even knowing it. Anthologies like that aren't worthwhile.
review 2: This anthology of steampunk-flavored ghost stories is one of the best overall that I've come across. There wasn't a single story I couldn't get through, and several of them were outstanding, particularly Margo Lanagan's "The Proving of Smollett Stan... moredforth" and "Christopher Raven" by Theodora Goss. I particularly liked the way Margo Lanagan's story focused on a main character who's a servant rather than a member of the privileged classes (one of those aspects of Victorian society that too often get neglected in steampunk fiction). less

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