Grimm, grit, and gasoline : dieselpunk & decopunk fairy tales : a punked up fairy tales anthology /
Grimm, grit, and gasoline : dieselpunk & decopunk fairy tales : a punked up fairy tales anthology /
edited by Rhonda Parrish.
- First edition.
- 295 pages ; 23 cm
Circles and salt / Salvage / The loch / Evening chorus / To go west / Bonne chance confidential / The Neugdae / The rescue of Tresses Malone / Daughters of earth and air / Easy as eating pie / A princess, a spy, and a dwarf walked into a bar full of Nazis / Steel dragons of a luminous sky / Ramps and rocket / As the spindle burns / Make this water no deeper / One hundred years / Things forgotten on the cliffs of Avevig / Sara Cleto -- A.A. Medina -- Zannier Alejandra -- Lizz Donnelly -- Laura Van Arendonk Baugh -- Jack Bates -- Juliet Harper -- Alena Van Arendonk -- Robert E. Vardeman -- Amanda C. Davis -- Accidents are not possible / Sarah Van Goethem -- Patrick Bollivar -- Brian Trent -- Alicia K. Anderson -- Nellie K. Neves -- Blake Jessop -- Jennifer R. Donohue -- Wendy Nikel.
Features "alternative history re-imaginings of ... the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We can do it' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies. The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic tales to this rich historical setting ... [including] retellings of The Little Mermaid, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Monkey King, Swan Lake, Pinocchio and more ... showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories"--
9781732254664 1732254664
World War, 1914-1918--History--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--History--Fiction.
Fairy tales--Adaptations.
Fantasy fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Short stories.
Circles and salt / Salvage / The loch / Evening chorus / To go west / Bonne chance confidential / The Neugdae / The rescue of Tresses Malone / Daughters of earth and air / Easy as eating pie / A princess, a spy, and a dwarf walked into a bar full of Nazis / Steel dragons of a luminous sky / Ramps and rocket / As the spindle burns / Make this water no deeper / One hundred years / Things forgotten on the cliffs of Avevig / Sara Cleto -- A.A. Medina -- Zannier Alejandra -- Lizz Donnelly -- Laura Van Arendonk Baugh -- Jack Bates -- Juliet Harper -- Alena Van Arendonk -- Robert E. Vardeman -- Amanda C. Davis -- Accidents are not possible / Sarah Van Goethem -- Patrick Bollivar -- Brian Trent -- Alicia K. Anderson -- Nellie K. Neves -- Blake Jessop -- Jennifer R. Donohue -- Wendy Nikel.
Features "alternative history re-imaginings of ... the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We can do it' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies. The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic tales to this rich historical setting ... [including] retellings of The Little Mermaid, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Monkey King, Swan Lake, Pinocchio and more ... showcased alongside some original fairy tale-like stories"--
9781732254664 1732254664
World War, 1914-1918--History--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--History--Fiction.
Fairy tales--Adaptations.
Fantasy fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Short stories.