brassy submersible harlots

[sergebroom]

Last week, I bought Extraordinary Engines, a steampunk anthology edited by Nick Gevers that Solaris Books just released in paperback. I’ve always loved retro-SF, which is good because having something described as the hottest new trend in this-or-that usually is the surest means to make me stay away. On the other hand, the backcover also says:

Enter a world where robot pugilists perform for your amusement; where famous literary figures of yesteryear rail against the ceaseless tide of scientific advancement; a world with automated harlots, brass submersibles, and airships!

There are a few books that are ahead in my reading queue. Still, I’ll be taking time off work for the whole second half of November while my wife is getting acquainted with her titanium knee. I expect I’ll have enough free time that it won’t be long before I get to Gevers’s anthology.

Maybe it will inspire me to write a story about brassy submersible harlots, thus starting a new literary trend, about automata erotica.

Comments

[sophielandon.livejournal.com]

I've got Charlie Stross' _Saturn's Children_ on my queue. Doesn't it already qualify?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I was thinking more of steampunk automata erotica. Stross's book would qualify only if the heroine's insides consist of cogs, levers, pulleys and flywheels.

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