Clockwork Souls
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Patricia Burroughs had insomnia throughout her entire teen years. She read most of the night, and slept during class in the middle of the day. Unless, of course, she was hiding a novel inside a physics textbook. Who needed physics? She believed in magic.
Eventually she turned her propensity for scheming and daydreaming into storytelling, which manifested in award-winning screenplays (Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2001) and books. Her recent This Crumbling Pageant, Volume One of The Fury Triad, was awarded the Golden Quill for Best Romantic Fantasy in 2015. The Dead Shall Live, Volume Two, will be out in late 2016.
You know, she still can’t sleep at night, but now it’s her own characters keeping her awake. She hopes they do the same thing to you!
Brenda W. Clough spent much of her childhood overseas, courtesy of the U.S. government. Her first fantasy novel, The Crystal Crown, was published by DAW in 1984. She has also written The Dragon of Mishbil (1985), The Realm Beneath (1986), and The Name of the Sun (1988). Her children’s novel, An Impossumble Summer (1992), is set in her own house in Virginia, where she lives in a cottage at the edge of a forest.
Her latest novels from Book View Cafe include Revise the World (2009), Speak to Our Desires and How Like a God. Tor Books published the sequel, Doors of Death and Life, in May 2000.
Nancy Jane Moore’s science fiction novel The Weave came out in 2015 from Aqueduct Press. Her Book View Café publications include Ardent Forest, Flashes of Illumination, and Walking Contradiction and Other Futures. She lives in Oakland, California.
Pati Nagle has written over twenty novels and two collections of short fiction. Her stories of Marie Laveau have graced The Shadow Conspiracy and The Shadow Conspiracy II, and her fiction has also appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Cricket, Cicada, and various anthologies. She is a founding member of Book View Café.
Irene Radford has been writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. A member of an endangered species—a native Oregonian who lives in Oregon—she and her husband make their home in Welches, Oregon, where deer, bears, coyotes, hawks, owls, woodpeckers, and cougars feed regularly on their back deck.
A museum-trained historian, Irene has spent many hours prowling pioneer cemeteries deepening her connections to the past. Raised in a military family she grew up all over the US and learned early on that books are friends that don’t get left behind with a move. Her interests and reading range from ancient history, to spiritual meditations, to space stations, and a whole lot in between.
Mostly Irene writes fantasy and historical fantasy including the best-selling Dragon Nimbus Series. In other lifetimes she writes urban fantasy as P.R. Frost or Phyllis Ames, and space opera as C.F. Bentley. Later this year she ventures into Steampunk as someone else.
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Deborah J. Ross is an award-nominated writer and editor of fantasy and science fiction. She served as Secretary to the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and is currently on the Board of Directors of Book View Cafe. Her novels include Lambda Literary Award Finalist Collaborators (as Deborah Wheeler), The Seven-Petaled Shield trilogy, Jaydium, and Northlight. In addition, she has continued the “Darkover” series created by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley with The Fall of Neskaya, Zandru’s Forge, A Flame in Hali, The Alton Gift, Hastur Lord, The Children of Kings, and three more novels under contract. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, F & SF, Realms of Fantasy, Star Wars: Tales from Jabba’s Palace, Sisters of the Night, and Sword & Sorceress. She’s edited a number of anthologies, including Lace and Blade, The Feathered Edge: Tales of Magic, Love, and Daring, Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted, Mad Science Cafe, Across the Spectrum, Stars of Darkover, and Gifts of Darkover. When she’s not writing, she knits for charity, plays classical piano, and studies yoga, and dog training.
THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY SERIES
The Shadow Conspiracy
edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Laura Anne Gilman
In the Year Without a Summer, a group of mad geniuses descended on Geneva. In an attempt to save the body and mind of George Gordon, Lord Byron, they performed a dreadful and forbidden experiment that forever changed history—and tore their own lives apart.
Years later, Byron’s daughter Ada has inherited her father’s genius. With Charles Babbage, inventor of the analytical engine, she invents the “automatic sciences,” allowing the creation of machines that mimic human action, and even human thought. Once again, history has changed. Mechanical spiders perform menial tasks. Intelligent locomotives keep their own time schedules. Massive dirigibles and flying automata have flung the Empire—and piracy—into the sky itself.
But even a golden age casts a long shadow, and silent forces are moving in the darkness. Whispers of a conspiracy to destroy the Empire are beginning to surface. The fate of the Geneva experiment and the mad geniuses that created it remains unknown.
The Shadow Conspiracy II
edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
The soul of the poet who would be king still seeks immortality — but will it find a home? And will that home be flesh or steel?
Revisit the shared Victorian world of transferable souls and intelligent machines introduced in The Shadow Conspiracy. Judith Tarr’s irrepressible Emma Rigby prances through a new adventure with automata. Nancy Jane Moore brings us more missions for the mysterious warrior woman, Jane Freemantle. Chris Dolley brings to life a wonderful parody reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse.
Then there are the historical characters who keep popping into our works of fiction. Amy Sterling Casil introduces us to insane artist Richard Dadd and makes us redefine madness. Irene Radford visits Dr. John McLaughlin and his wife Marguerite in the Oregon Country with some questions about when no government is too much government. Pati Nagle gives us some more insight into the life of mystical Marie LaVeau. And always, Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, hovers in the background along with her father, Lord Byron.
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