@43d7c4ea @b2e37e2e It's an interesting intermediate waypoint in the steampunk evolution, midway between the early Dick fanboys (Blaylock/Powers/Jeter, early 80s) and the late-90s-onwards broader and more fantastical steampunk church.

It was also an example of a superstar collaboration of a type SF publishers love to organize, eg. Dick/Zelazny's "Dies Irae", Stross/Doctorow "The Rapture of the Nerds". They don't always work out … 

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and indeed, it didn't (really)