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Hot And Steamy: Tales Of Steampunk Romance (2011)

by Jean Rabe(Favorite Author)

3.05 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0756406897 (ISBN13: 9780756406899)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

DAW Books Inc

review 1: The huge majority of stories here are just terrible. Overall these are neither steampunk nor romances. In fact they're not well written at all. You can't just throw an automaton into one story or an airship into another & call it steampunk. Only one of the stories I read had an actual well thought out alternate world. I only got about 60% finished before I had to stop - the stories were that bad. Purely a marketing ploy to capitalize on the steampunk trend.
review 2: Received as a gift earlier this year. This is not a particularly strong collection, particularly if you're looking for romantic short fiction. I liked the steampunk elements and the alternate historical elements, which were definitely the highlights of this book for me. Most of the stories felt unf... moreinished and rushed, and in several cases, made little or no sense. One even changed airship names during the course of a 12 page short story. I did enjoy the stories by Jody Lynn Nye, Tobias Buckell and Elizabeth Vaughan, but otherwise found this to be a disappointing read. less

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