Steampunk Universe

A new, diverse steampunk anthology titled Steampunk Universe is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign has been live for a little over a week and it’s 45% funded.

Edited by Sarah Hans, the anthology will feature the work of Ken Liu, Jody Lynn Nye, Maurice Broaddus, Malon Edwards, Emily Cataneo, Pip Ballantine, Victor Ocampo, Suna Dasi, Lyndsay E. Gilbert, Kate Coe, Liam Hogan, Zach Chapman, Andrew Knighton, Matthew Bright, Candida Spillard, and Diana Pho.

All the stories will feature protagonists who have some kind of disability or exceptionality; here’s what publisher Steven Saus has to say about the project:

Sarah and I were elated about the success of Steampunk World. The money was nice, but there was something more: we saw more and more multicultural steampunk fiction. That was the goal of the anthology – to publicly and loudly show that not only was it possible to have diversity in steampunk, but that there was a demand for it. And that’s why Steampunk Universe is different. We could have just done the same thing again. That isn’t how we roll. … We wanted not only a multicultural anthology, but one that featured characters that have disabilities. We wanted to see aneurotypical characters portrayed as something other than the clichés. And we wanted to show it could be done, by any press, big or small.

I’m personally very excited about their new project. My Lovecraftian story “The Leviathan of Trincomalee” was in Steampunk World, so I will be very surprised if Steampunk Universe doesn’t also contain its share of dark fiction that will appeal to horror fans.

The Steampunk Universe Kickstarter runs for 22 more days; please consider backing it! Just $4 will get you a DRM-free digital copy of the anthology, and $15 will get you the trade paperback plus the ebook.

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About Lucy A. Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess, and the collections Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her latest books are Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide and While the Black Stars Burn. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Jamais Vu, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck and is a mentor in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

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