anti-fail

[rmd]

sparkymonster's twitter feed pointed me at Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, so I checked it out. I was delighted to discover that not only was it full of yummy lesbian goodness, it was also specifically curated to be Anti-RaceFail and has lots of things that are *not* just the British Empire reimagined. I'm partway through the first story which includes an alternate history of Haiti with a post-revolution Haitian spy in New Orleans working with a Creole woman. Yay! It's fun and I haven't even gotten to the sexytimes parts yet.

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checked it out from where?

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

My local library doesn't have this book, nor any of its affiliates. (Imagine my surprise...)

Re: checked it out from where?

[clauclauclaudia]

"Checked out" as in "investigated". As in downloaded the Kindle edition, I do believe. ;-)

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

At first blush, it struck me as odd that someone would write about Victorian Britain without racist imperialism. Sorta like writing about it without lung-etching smog. But I'm old for science fiction set in the past; if you're going to imagine serious computing devices in that era, why not give them the social system we think they should have had?