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Also includes a 17,000 collaboratively written short story called 'A Secret History of Steampunk' whose author, 'Mecha-Ostrich', includes Angela Slatter and Lisa L. Hannett.
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Steampunk note: An anthology of short stories collected for their excellence in the steampunk style.
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Machine Maid,
single work
short story
science fiction
(p. 83-101)
A young woman, married to a land owner deep in the Australian bush, finds herself often alone in the house with an inhuman companion: the machine maid of the title, formerly an entertainer on the Parisian stage. Motivated by curiosity about the mechanics of the maid, the woman tinkers, but is horrified when she discovers the extent of the maid's programming.
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