Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy

from shabacus

The strength of an anthology of this nature is in how adeptly it serves the readers of the tiny slice of subgenre it represents. Gaslight fantasy is a genre so new that it barely has a name, so small that a list of recommended reading in the back can comprise nearly the entire body of work writte...

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A high-quality collection overall, with only a couple of stories I was bored by. My favorites were Delia Sherman's "Queen Victoria's Book of Spells," Genevieve Valentine's "From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvellous...", Kaaron Warren's "The Unwanted Women of Surrey," and Ve...

from Beammey

As with any anthology there will be some stories you really like and some you really don't like, this was no exception. I loved the genre (Gaslight fantasy!) and I loved the concept of the book, I even loved some of the stories within it, but some of them I also found really hard to get through a...

from ladycato

I received this anthology at World Fantasy Con in 2014 and had it signed by editor Ellen Datlow. Though this was one of my favorite acquisitions there, it ended up buried in my to-read pile. What a shame, because wow, this book is a treasure. Not only does it capture the essence of gaslamp fantas...

from Magycmyste

I had been looking for a contemporary, fun book to get me further into the Victorian and steampunk mindset, and found this at Barnes and Noble. These stories are interesting and very well written, but I have to admit my attention flagged a bit in the middle. I don't know if it was the stories the...