Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica
by D.L. King
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Blurb:
The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For
such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about
things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G.
Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities. The
rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves
perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is
repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced.
Steampunk, even without sex, is erotic; with sex, it’s over-the-top hot.
A widowed lady engineer invents a small device that can store the
energy from sexual frustration and convert it to electricity to help
power a home. Teresa Noelle Roberts shows us what it can do, confronted
with sexual fulfillment. What volume of steampunk would be complete
without a tale of sailing ships and the men who sail them? If your taste
runs to sexy pirates in space, Poe Von Page will delight you with the
mutinous crew of the Danika Blue and their new captain.
Then
there’s the very special room on the top floor in the House of the Sable
Locks, a brothel where sexually discriminating men go to have their
fantasies fulfilled. Even if a man daren’t put those fantasies into
words, Elizabeth Schechter’s “Succubus” will give the madam all the
information she needs with which to make her clients happy. There are
brothels, flying machines, steam-powered conveyances, manor houses,
spiritualist societies. The following stories afford intelligently
written, beautifully crafted glimpses into other worlds, where the
Carnal Machines won’t fail to seduce you, get you wet or make you hard
so, lie back, relax; a happy ending is guaranteed.
Published 4/12/11
Carnal Machines
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