Download Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy AudioBook Free
"Gaslamp fantasy", or historical fantasy occur a marvelous version of the nineteenth century, is definitely popular with viewers and writers as well. Several wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest owe their motivation to functions by nineteenth-century writers which range from Jane Austen, the Brontes, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the complete steampunk genre and subculture owes greater than a little to literature influenced by this period. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everybody who adores these works of neo-Victorian fiction and needs to explore the wide variety of techniques modern fantasists are employing nineteenth-century settings, individuals, and themes or templates. These approaches stretch out from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope influenced works that some critics call "fantasy of manners", all of which fit under the bigger umbrella of gaslamp fantasy. The result is 18 reports by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult domains, including both best-selling writers and interesting new skills such as Elizabeth Keep, Adam Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching perspective of an nineteenth-century invested (or cursed!) with magic.
