![]() This immersive collection captures the whimsy and drama of steampunk as well as its flaws. Nisi Shawl’s “Sun River” is atmospheric and sensuous, making full use of its locale. ![]() In Zan Lee’s “Ushabti,” a dying pharaoh grapples with his own mortality. In Tiffany Trent’s “The Lights of Dendera,” science and magic collide when a singer is asked to perform for Nikola Tesla at a new Egyptian art exhibit and comes face to face with Anubis. In Jonathan Green’s action-packed “Worthless Remains,” set in 1998, adventurer and detective Ulysses Quicksilver learns that an old acquaintance is programming mummy automatons to murder. In Gail Carriger’s “The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar,” Alessandro Tarabotti, a Templar, discovers a strange mummy and plenty of danger in bustling Cairo. His fiction has appeared most recently in Tor.com. Clockwork mummies, thieving deities, airship pirates, psychic queens, mechanical scarabs, unrepentant scoundrels, mysterious museums, trickster djinns, suspicious werewolves, abducted scientists, fearless spies, and vengeful gods. ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of Clockwork Cairo online from Australias leading. Matthew Bright Welcome to the land of the Pharaohs. ![]() Bright’s collection of steampunk stories set in Egypt notably includes no Egyptian authors, instead serving as an introduction to several popular Western steampunk authors and series. Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer whos never quite sure what order those titles should go. Booktopia has Clockwork Cairo, Steampunk Tales of Egypt by Matthew Bright. ![]()
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