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'An entertaining novelette mashup of steampunk/Goth/Victoriana/aviation. An unfeasibly early steam-powered airplane is found, perfectly preserved, in a barn – if it had flown, the history of aviation, and the course of the last two centuries, would have been completely different.'
Source: Best SF (http://bestsf.net/sean-mcmullen-steamgothic-interzone-241-jul-aug-2012/) (Sighted: 20/6/2014)
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Steampunk note: This story is not typically steampunk (for example, it is set in the 'second decade of the twenty-first century'), yet plays into the style's common thematic fields by featuring an advanced anachronistic aircraft, drawing out notions of technologically advanced alternate histories. It also plays self-consciously with steampunk tropes: the mysterious visitors, for example, are 'dressed in matching brown ankle coats and wearing motoring goggles on their foreheads. [...] The woman gleamed with silver jewellery, mostly in the shape of electroplated cogs wheels, dials, and piping'.
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