This is a wry, delightfully naughty collection that blends the exotic technology and pseudo-Victorian manners of steam punk with red-hot erotic fantasy. In Teresa Noelle Roberts' "Human Powered" a female professor of "arcane engineering" from Wellesley College designs a mechanism to capture sexual energy in order to replace dirty, polluting coal - then tests it with the help of an old friend and colleague from MIT. "The Servant Question" by Janine Ashbless gives us domestic robots, Victorian-style, hand-crafted and subject to a wide range of useful - um - customizations. Elizabeth Schechter's dark, exquisite tale "The Succubus" presents an artifact with the intelligence and insight to not only satisfy a man's perverse desires, but to intuit what they might be. And I guess I should mention my own story "Her Own Devices", a battle of wits between the Chinese slave of a Hong Kong whoremaster and a renowned adventurer, inventor and rake. These were just the high points. Overall, the collection offers original, artful - dare I say steamy - tales, many with a hearty dose of humor. Recommended!