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The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter single work   short story   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter
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An abused daughter hides an escaped golem aboard her father's steam barge.

Notes

  • Steampunk note: Though this story is mostly not typically steampunk, the elements of steam technology (including trains and a steam barge) in a world that uses magic, the golem in the form of an animated porcelain doll in demi eighteenth-century fashions, and the imperial forces that chase it play into steampunk territory.

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Clockwork Phoenix 4 Mike Allen (editor), United States of America (USA) : Mythic Delirium Books , 2013 8367472 2013 anthology short story United States of America (USA) : Mythic Delirium Books , 2013
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Angel Dust Ian McHugh , Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014 8367003 2014 selected work short story

    'Angel Dust is the first story collection by Australian rising star Ian McHugh. McHugh is a Writers of the Future winner, and has a number of significant overseas short fiction sales. Angel Dust collects 15 incredible fantastic visions. A number of these were first published in Asimov's and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Four stories are original to this collection. Asimov's editor Sheila Williams says of this writer, "Ian McHugh has a remarkable ability to render the alien utterly convincing. His nonhuman lives are so powerfully depicted that we can easily, and sometimes uneasily, immerse ourselves completely into their worlds."' (Publication summary)

         Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014
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