or How to Throw Sand in the Gears of Ordinary Steampunk with the anthology Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, edited by Matthew Bright

or Why Xenophobia Always Leads to a Bad End with S.E. Grove's The Mapmakers Trilogy

or Why Sometimes It’s About the Silk, Not the Steam with Ken Liu's The Dandelion Dynasty Series

Wherein universes collide, steampunk is (not really) defined, and tubas rend the air with a jaunty tune

Wherein Bluestocking explains why she will need to put Ken Liu’s magnificent (and massive) tomes, and the show itself,  on hold for a bit longer

or, How a Young, Jewish Woman Decided to Grab Destiny by the Horns with Emily Barton's The Book of Esther

Wherein we become acquainted with a man who is most certainly not a lunatic. He’s not. Honestly.

Wherein the steampunk survivalist becomes learned in the various and sundry pox and plagues that inevitably accompany the apocalypse

or How a Carnival Kid Brought Down an Empire with Rod Duncan’s Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire Series

or Why Decolonial Determination is Steampunk as S*&# with the anthology The Sea Is Ours, Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia, ed. Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng