A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.

Untitled / C. Clare -- The last ride of the Glory Girls / L. Bray -- Clockwork Fagin / C. Doctorow -- Seven days beset by demons / S. Cheng -- Hand in glove / Y. Wilce -- The ghost of Cwmlech Manor / D. Sherman -- Gethsemane / E. Knox -- The summer people / K. Link -- Peace in our time / G. Nix -- Nowhere fast / C. Rowe -- Finishing school / K. Jennings -- Steam girl / D. Horrocks -- Everything amiable and obliging / H. Black -- The oracle engine / M. T. Anderson.