Like Clockwork: Steampunk Erotica (The Erotic Steampunk Library) [Kindle Edition]

Jason Rubis (Author), Eric Del Carlo (Author), Elizabeth Schechter (Author), A. N. Cortez (Author), Helena Weiss (Author), Lionel Bramble (Author), Michele Poirier (Author), J. Blackmore (Author, Editor)

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Product Description

Seven stories of erotic steampunk, exploring worlds of clockwork people and their relationship to their creators. If a mad, or not-so-mad, scientist of the steam age, were to create his or her own being, what desires would be reflected there? Follow up to the best-selling anthology Like A Wisp of Steam.

Like Clockwork includes the stories:

The Yearly Scientifiction Colloquium by Eric Del Carlo
Caged Dragons and Explosions by Helena Weiss
The Succubus by Elizabeth Schechter
Concerning the Ars Mechanica by Michele Poirier
Nightingale by Jason Rubis
The Clockwork Theater at the Midnight Fair by A.N.Cortez
The Beast in the Machine, by Lionel Bramble

Reviews praising the previous collection, Like a Wisp of Steam:
"Bravo to Circlet Press for helping to usher in steampunk erotica for us readers eager for the new and unknown….Readers, you're in for a treat with a lot of variety to satisfy many different tastes." –Obsidian Bookshelf

"This is an enjoyable group of tales that solidly fits the bill as steampunk and erotica….for those who are unfamiliar with steampunk it is a splendid jumping in point. Of course the erotica only adds to the enjoyment." –The Baryon Review

"Readers (such as this reviewer) who were raised on nineteenth-century fantasy literature will love the facsimile versions for grown-ups in this collection. All the writers seem familiar enough with the period to fake it convincingly while including more explicit sex than the authors of the time dared to describe. This e-book would be a good introduction to steampunk for readers who are unfamiliar with it." –Jean Roberta, for TCM Reviews

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 218 KB
• Print Length: 119 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Circlet Press, Inc. (July 15, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002HREQ2W
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,818 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Schechter was born in New York at some point in the past. She is officially old enough to know better, but refuses to grow up. She has been, at various points in her life, a jeweler, an artist, a counselor, a minister, a fitness instructor, a singer, counter-person in a coffee-shop, a lab tech, a research assistant, quarter-staff master, a daycare worker, a high school English teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a stay-at-home-mom, an editor and a writer. She firmly believes in the Heinlein adage that specialization is for insects, and is still working on the tinker, tailor, soldier and spy parts of the list.

Elizabeth started writing in grade school, mostly for her own amusement. Her first novel was written while a student at the Bronx High School of Science, where she was regularly accosted before class by her friends, who were looking for the next chapter. She still has that manuscript somewhere, and readily admits that it is absolute and complete crap, but one must start somewhere.

Writing got pushed to the sidelines for a good number of years, until Elizabeth got involved in a play-by-email role-playing game that was completely story driven. That game rekindled her love of writing, and she teamed up with another player to further explore the lives of their characters. That exploration turned into a planned series of novels, of which the first two are complete.

Once Elizabeth started writing again, she found that she couldn't stop. A friend pointed out an open call for submissions for a Circlet anthology themed on the Tarot. She came up with an idea about a most interesting tarot reading that turned into "The Hand You're Dealt," her first short story sale.

Elizabeth lives in Central Florida with her husband and son, and a most accepting circle of friends who are both very amused and very proud of the pervy, fetish writer in their midst.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The stories were alright..., December 9, 2011

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This review is from: Like Clockwork: Steampunk Erotica (The Erotic Steampunk Library) (Kindle Edition)

Steampunk Anthology: Alternate Victorian European and American Settings. I liked all of the stories, but none really jumped out at me. I guess Concerning the Ars Mechanica by Monique Poirier was my favorite of all of them.

The First Scientifiction Colloquium by Eric Del Carlo - (M/F) Sort of in the flavor of the movie Quill, in that it is a telling of the first "Mecherotica" written and published underground due to the risqué nature of the content of their stories.

Caged Dragons and Explosions by Helena Wiess - (F/M, Domme/Sub) Entertaining in the fact that the wife of the story is secretly the dominate in the relationship, which she does an admirable job of keeping private between them, even after one day being made aware that her husband had become employed by a benefactor who wished him to make weapons while she had been away travelling with family. She, of course, has to correct and take back control of the situation at hand.

Succubus by Elizabeth Schechter - (Mech/Male, Domme/Sub) Every one visits the fourth floor, but usually only once. Once is all it usually takes. Actually find it a little hard to explain this one...

Concerning the Ars Mechanica by Monique Poirier - (M/M) A man, going through his great uncle's abandoned laboratory effects, comes across some crates containing disassembled parts for a mechanical man. Moved by the artistry and beauty of the creation, he rebuilds and reawakens the mech, Haider, who'd been "put to sleep" for 28 years and things are much different now.

Nightingale by Jason Rubis - (M/Mech, voyeur) Years before William Sheridan had been introduced to a female chimera named Lady Jane, who was used as a toy in a gentleman's club. Now, he made it his mission to find her and save her.

The Clockwork Theater at the Midnight Fair by A.N. Cortez (Mech/F, voyeur/orgy) Interesting story that I'm not sure I quite grasped the whole but... A theater with adult entertainment, female sexually manipulated on a stage for a voyeuristic mixed couple audience. Outwardly for the audiences entertainment, but with a hidden alternate purpose?

The Beast in the Machine by Lionel Bramble - (Mech/Human Female Test Subject) A female spy in Espionage Department volunteers as a test subject for a machine that tests the stress of interrogation at the hands of hostile forces and she's ready to put her training to the test.

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hogwash, June 2, 2010

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Steven Howell "Steve" (Sumter, South Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Clockwork: Steampunk Erotica (The Erotic Steampunk Library) (Kindle Edition)

Silliness abounds, and it's really not all that graphic, if that's what you're looking for. However, if you're up for some steampunk with a twist, give it a try. (Buy it used.)