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A review by sherwoodreads
Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories by JoSelle Vanderhooft
This anthology surpassed my expectations, and those were high. While there were a few stories that didn't quite work for me, the majority were entertaining at the least. Two things I especially appreciated: the nifty worldbuilding, and the fact that women were central characters with agency and action. The stories were not all lesbian erotica--which would have been fine, but I really love variety. All kinds of relationships here, including tragic, with most being female.
Standouts for me were Rachel Manija Brown's "Steel Rider" and Amal El-Mohtar's "To Follow the Waves." I really liked NK Jemisin's The Effluent Engine" until the very end, and I thought Shweta Narayan's" The Padishah Begum's Reflections" a bravura piece that might have worked more powerfully if the compressed narrative were expanded out into a novel. I think that would be amazing.
Standouts for me were Rachel Manija Brown's "Steel Rider" and Amal El-Mohtar's "To Follow the Waves." I really liked NK Jemisin's The Effluent Engine" until the very end, and I thought Shweta Narayan's" The Padishah Begum's Reflections" a bravura piece that might have worked more powerfully if the compressed narrative were expanded out into a novel. I think that would be amazing.