"Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventures, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its daring possibilities for progress and disaster"--Publisher's description.
Mr. Broadbent's information / Henry A. Hering -- The automaton / Reginald Bacchus & Ranger Gull -- The abduction of Alexandra Seine / Fred C. Smale -- The Gibraltar tunnel / Jean Jaubert -- From Pole to Pole / George Griffith -- In the deep of time / George Parsons Lathrop -- The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings / L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- The plague of lights / Owen Oliver -- What the rats brought / Ernest Favenc -- The great catastrophe / George Davey -- Within an ace of the end of the world / Robert Barr -- An interplanetary rupture / Frank L. Packard -- The last days of Earth / George C. Wallis -- The plunge / George Allan England.