13 Best Historical Fiction Short Stories & Anthologies
List Updated June 2020
Bestselling Historical Fiction Short Stories & Anthologies in 2020
Christmas at Carnton: A Novella
The Mail Order Brides of Last Chance: The Blizzard Brides (A 4-Book Western Romance Box Set
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
31 Inspirational Christmas Romances: Sweet Christmas Romance Box Set
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales
Winter Wishes
American Tall Tales
A Christmas to Remember: An Anthology
Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories: A Hercule Poirot Collection with Foreword by Charles Todd (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher
Jane Austen: The Complete Works 7-Book Boxed Set: Classics hardcover boxed set (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
- Jane Austen The Complete Works Classics Hardcover Boxed Set
Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists
Murder in Mayfair: An Atlas Catesby Mystery
Book Review: Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
When reading Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, you will meet individuals ranging from scientists to students, the fae to Romans, intrepid orphans, and utopian revolutionaries.
For the uninitiated; steampunk is a genre of fiction, film, and even clothing that adds steam technology and gadgetry to a world that has never held those tools. Whether it is adding airships, automatons, goggles and other gadgets to Victorian England, which is the more common and recognizable form, or bringing steam power ships deep into space and exploring. Steampunk generally includes an alternate universe where romance and technology reign, although in this anthology there are stories that bring steampunk into the modern world in new ways. When you begin reading Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, you will meet individuals ranging from scientists to students, the fae to Romans, intrepid orphans, and utopian revolutionaries. Stories include monstrous predicaments, moral dilemmas, oracles, steam-powered airships, automatons and questions about the very nature of humanity. Settings range from modern Appalachia to ancient Rome, future Australia to an alternate California.
As with any anthology, some stories spoke to me more than others, and some still haunt me. Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories offers readers exactly what the title suggests, a book of stories that will mesmerize and possibly disturb readers. I highly recommend this anthology to tweens, teens and adults that enjoy steampunk, science fiction or fantasy. I also recommend this book to people that want to explore just what steampunk can mean, and want to avoid the typical Victorian England setting that is prevalent in the genre. Those that are steampunk purists, firm in their mindset of just what steampunk is and must be, might enjoy this collection, or become frustrated with stories that might not fit into their idea of the genre. However, even without the steampunk label, I found all of the stories worth the read, and some that left me hoping that the short stories would spawn a book or even series in order to give me even more of the world described.
