Features Stories In Which The Victorian Era Is Reimagined To Include Martian Technology, Steam-powered Robots, Airships, Alchemy, And Various Anachronistic Technologies. Steampunk : It's A Clockwork Universe, Victoria / Ann & Jeff Vandermeer -- The 19th-century Roots Of Steampunk / Jess Nevins -- Benediction : Excerpt From The Warlord Of The Air / Michael Moorcock -- Lord Kelvin's Machine / James P. Blaylock -- The Giving Mouth / Ian R. Macleod -- A Sun In The Attic / Mary Gentle -- The God-clown Is Near / Jay Lake -- The Steam Man Of The Prairie And The Dark Rider Get Down : A Dime Novel / Joe R. Lansdale -- The Selene Gardening Society / Molly Brown -- Seventy-two Letters / Ted Chiang -- The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance / Michael Chabon -- Victoria / Paul Di Filippo -- Reflected Light / Rachel E. Pollock -- Minutes Of The Last Meeting / Stepan Chapman -- Excerpt From The Third And Last Volume Of Tribes Of The Pacific Coast / Neal Stephenson -- The Steam-driven Time Machine : A Pop Culture Survey / Rick Klaw -- The Essential Sequential Steampunk : A Modest Survey Of The Genre Within The Comic Book Medium / Bill Baker. Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 366-373).