A dozen authors from around the world bring you their take on the Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy genres. Science fiction and the supernatural collide to create fantastical creatures, exciting adventures, and unusual technologies. Whether you are brand new to these genres or a long-time fan, everyone will find something to love.

A missing person case brings Alice Kittyhawk to Amsterdam where she discovers that the task involves delving into the murky world of temporal displacement. Working with the mysterious Ministry of Lost & Found, Alice will have to take on some formidable foes and race against the clock in defiance of the odds which seem to be stacked against her.

A dozen authors from around the world bring you their take on the Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy genres. Science fiction and the supernatural collide to create fantastical creatures, exciting adventures, and unusual technologies. Whether you are brand new to these genres or a long-time fan, everyone will find something to love. Featuring: The Mechanist's Daughter - When a little girl and her malfunctioning automaton show up on her doorstep, an inventor must solve the mystery of its origin. By Tracie McBride The Lady Defiance - A harpy is taken captive and finds unexpected allies among the crew of airship pirates who liberate her. By Mandy Burkhead An Evening on Harbor Ridge - Three soldiers must navigate a no man's land of steam-powered weapons and vampiric aristocrats to return home. By Mark Rivett In the Cavern of the Sleepers - Asif's search for a cure for his narcolepsy leads him to a temple hidden in the Assam jungle where gods are stirring. By Ali Abbas Fractured Moonlight - A pilot confronts his deceased father's best friend in his pursuit of understanding the events of the past. By W. T. Paterson Basic Black - With a dreaded illness hanging over their heads, an engineer must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect her family. By K.A. Fox The Grand Assault - A boy must step in to an unusual fencing match when the original challenger becomes embroiled in a conspiracy. By J. Woolston Carr The Steam Horses of Stem Park - In a faraway future, sentient animals find inspiration in the Steampunk tales of the past. By Robert B. Read Jr. Jewels from the Deep, a Sussex Steampunk Tale - A top London criminal visits the coast to assess local smugglers but more than potential profits are waiting for him beneath the waves. By Nils Nisse Visser The Bronze Bomber - In the world of an alternative American Civil War, new inventions have shifted the tide and a Union agent seeks revenge. By Briant Laslo La Muerda - A space western where a hard-bitten woman tries to learn the fate of her best friend on a planet known for debauchery and crime. By Mercury Divine - A woman must ally herself with her murderous husband and a bigoted airship captain if she has any hope of discovering her true inheritance. By E. A. Catania

Tess Hawkhurst has retired to Sinneport, Sussex, to raise her daughter, run the Mairemaid Inn, and engage in a little illicit business on moonless nights. She reckons she's content, but one fateful night a group of wandering musicians evoke her past so vividly it's hard to tell what's what and when's when...and Tess is left wondering who else might come calling. Inspired by the song Wages of Sin from The Dark Design debut album 12 Tall Tales, this story was first published in The Dark Design Anthology: Tale of the Red Queen and Other Stories.

Brighton, 1871. Alice is adjusting to life in Brighton's slums but it bain't easy. There's no more time for play, everything revolves around making the weekly rent to avoid the workhouse. When the local constabulary get involved life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.

(A short Steampunk novella) Sussex, 1867. A broken heart drives Yard Pilkin from his native London to a small fishing village on the Sussex Coast. The locals are wary of strangers and initially keep their distance. After Yard makes some unlikely friends, he discovers that every man, woman, and child in the village conspire to conceal a secret.

Lewinna's father is chieftain of Wyrdwuda. Lewinna has always harboured the impossible ambition to follow in his footsteps. When he's called away to war by King Alfred, taking all the fighting men with him, his domain is threatened by a Danish raid. Lewinna will have to fight to defend her people, but she's not sure if she can.