Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories (Steam-Powered #2)

These fifteen thrilling and ingenious tales take the familiar genre of steampunk in exciting new directions, following women from across the globe and through pasts that never were (but could have been) on their search for money, adventure, prestige, freedom--and the love of another woman. Here you'll meet a Moroccan airship engineer and an English diplomat who receive a cryptic message and an exploding music box, a librarian who doubts her God, a Malaysian shipping clerk who dreams of adventure, a terracotta bride from the Tenth Circle of Hell, and an aeronaut on her way to certain death and a surprising discovery--and many more.

Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each of them is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered 2 push steampunk to its limits and beyond.

"Journey's End," by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
"Amphitrite," by S.L. Knapp
"In the Heart of Yellow Mountain," by Jaymee Goh
"Playing Chess in New Persepolis," by Sean Holland
"A Thousand Mill Lofts Gray," by Jeannelle Ferreira
"Dark Horse," by A.M. Tuomala
"The Return of Cherie," by Nisi Shawl
"One Last Interruption before We Begin," by Stephanie Lai
"Selin That Has Grown in the Desert," by Alex Dally MacFarlane
"Granada's Library," by Rebecca Fraimow
"The Canary of Candletown," by C.S.E. Cooney
"Fruit Jar Drinkin', Cheatin' Heart Blues," by Patty Templeton
"Deal," by Nicole Kornher-Stace
"Not the Moon But the Stars," by Shveta Thakrar
"The Terracotta Bride," by Zen Cho

Article/Afterword: "Winding Down the House: Taking the Steam out of Steampunk," by Amal El-Mohtar