Story Published in Magic & Mechanica
Short Stories, Steampunk, Writing Comments (0)
Acestius wiped droplets of mist off his face as he glanced through the small window in the firebox door. The coal fire was still burning brightly; no reason to shovel in more fuel or temper the salamandra coiled inside, its radiant hide glowing golden-red….
Magic & Mechanica, a 232-page collection of fantasy-meets-technology stories from Ricasso Press, is now available from Amazon.Com! The collection includes “Terminus,” a short sandalpunk-style tale featuring an ancient Roman steam engine and a dragon, which I co-wrote with friend and fellow writer Jo Gerrard.
Magic & Mechanica Description: “Enter a world of piston-driven fantasy, where magic smashes headlong into the down-to-earth reality of technology and machines. From the all-out war of dragon-riding sorcerers against an army of self-replicating, clockwork robots in Christopher M. Cevasco’s ‘Gambit,’ to the discovery of an alien submersible by pirates in Christopher Heath’s Azieran tale ‘Savior in a Flask,’ further still to Nicholas Ian Hawkins’ collision of a wizardly scholar and the newly invented printing press that will ruin his career in ‘Knowledge and Dust,’ you will certainly be amazed at the breathtaking imaginations of fifteen authors. Dragons, steam-powered tanks, Aztec warriors, angry gods, assassins both large and small … Magic & Mechanica is unlike any collection of fantasy you’ve ever seen.”
Jo Gerrard’s other publications include work in 42 Magazine, River Walk Journal, Star*Line, Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, The Shantytown Anomaly, Astropoetica, Word Riot, and The Harrow.
I hope you pick up the collection and read our story!
drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2009