Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables

Combining the timeless fairy tales that we all read as children with the out-of-time technological wizardry that is steampunk, this collection of stories blends the old and the new in ways sure to engage every fantasy reader.... Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes," "New York Times" bestselling author K. W. Jeter's "La Valse" forges a fable about love, the decadence of technology, and a gala dance that becomes the obsession of a young engineer--and the doom of those who partake in it...