Clockwork, Curses, and Coal
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Fairies threaten the world of artifice and technology, forcing the royal family to solve a riddle to stop their world from irrevocable change; a dishonest merchant uses automatons as vessels for his secrets and lies; a woman discovers the secret of three princesses whose shoes get scuffed while they sleep. These and so many other steampunk and gaslamp fairy tales await within the pages of Clockwork, Curses and Coal.
Retellings of Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, Pinocchio, The Twelve Dancing Princesses and more are all showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories. Featuring stories by Melissa Bobe, Adam Brekenridge, Beth Cato, MLD Curelas, Joseph Halden, Reese Hogan, Diana Hurlburt, Christina Johnson, Alethea Kontis, Lex T. Lindsay, Wendy Nikel, Brian Trent, Laura VanArendonk Baugh and Sarah Van Goethem.
Brian Trent
Brian Trent is the award-winning author of the sci-fi thrillers Redspace Rising and Ten Thousand Thunders, and more than a hundred short stories appearing in the world's top fiction markets. This includes the New York Times' bestselling Black Tide Rising series, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Apex, Cosmos, Flash Fiction Online, Flame Tree Publishing's Gothic Series, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Galaxy's Edge, and numerous year's best anthologies including back-to-back installments of The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF (for which he was the recipient of the 2019 Reader's Choice Award). He is also a Writers of the Future winner.
Trent is a frequently published author with Baen Books as well, with stories appearing in Worlds Long Lost, Weird World War III, Weird World War IV, Weird World War: China, Cosmic Corsairs, The Cackle of Cthulhu, and Tales of the U.S. Space Force. Short stories featuring characters from Perdition's Storm have appeared in the Black Tide Rising anthologies We Shall Rise and United We Stand.
Trent lives in Connecticut. A lifelong aficionado of classic science fiction, fantasy, and horror, he is the host of the podcast Space Station Squid where he discusses the genre. He can be found online at www.briantrent.com.
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