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A review by jason_pym
Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables by
3.0
A nice idea (using fairy tales as inspiration for steampunk stories) and very entertaining.
I did have a problem with one story, by Gregory Nicoll, which used Comanche Indians as lazy shorthand for bad guys. Not to say American Indians shouldn't ever be the antagonists - the Apaches in St Agnes' Stand by Thomas Eidson make the book a terrifying, white-knuckle page turner and still read like human beings. But I'd heard that a pit fall for the Steampunk genre is that writers can adopt a 19th century colonial attitude, and this is the first time I'd seen it.
I did have a problem with one story, by Gregory Nicoll, which used Comanche Indians as lazy shorthand for bad guys. Not to say American Indians shouldn't ever be the antagonists - the Apaches in St Agnes' Stand by Thomas Eidson make the book a terrifying, white-knuckle page turner and still read like human beings. But I'd heard that a pit fall for the Steampunk genre is that writers can adopt a 19th century colonial attitude, and this is the first time I'd seen it.