Airships & Automatons Just Out on Kindle

Just hours ago the word came from Editor Chuck Zaglanis, the long awaited AIRSHIPS & AUTOMATONS (see February 5, et al.) is out on Kindle.�� Hopefully the print edition will be quick to follow.�� Published by White Cat, the book is blurbed as ���Tales from a world that should have been. . .�� Fifteen stories spanning the ages from ancient Greece to a far-flung dying future,��� and now can be obtained in the here and present by pressing here.

For a broader description from the original guidelines, ���[w]e seek steampunk stories featuring strong characters, exciting plotlines, and automatons and/or airships.�� We don���t want the latter to be mentioned in passing; they should be central to the plot.�� We aren���t shooting for any particular mood with this book.�� Dystopian, humorous, pulp, Lovecraftian, upbeat or dark — all have a place here.���

My own piece in this is of the airship persuasion and, set in my far-future dying-Earth universe of the ���Tombs��� (more than a dozen tales of which have been published in various magazines and books including my current collection, THE TEARS OF ISIS), marks the ���far-flung future��� that ends the anthology.�� Titled ���Raising the Dead,��� along with airships (and tombs) it touches on souls and love, mourning and ghouls, corpse-gas and ballonnets, and Necromancers.