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An abused daughter hides an escaped golem aboard her father's steam barge.
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Steampunk note: Though this story is mostly not typically steampunk, the elements of steam technology (including trains and a steam barge) in a world that uses magic, the golem in the form of an animated porcelain doll in demi eighteenth-century fashions, and the imperial forces that chase it play into steampunk territory.
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Appears in:
yClockwork Phoenix 4Mike Allen
(editor),
United States of America (USA):Mythic Delirium Books,201383674722013anthology short story United States of America (USA):Mythic Delirium Books,2013
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2013
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Appears in:
yAngel DustIan McHugh,
Nedlands:Ticonderoga Publications,201483670032014selected work short story
'Angel Dust is the first story collection by Australian rising star Ian McHugh. McHugh is a Writers of the Future winner, and has a number of significant overseas short fiction sales. Angel Dust collects 15 incredible fantastic visions. A number of these were first published in Asimov's and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Four stories are original to this collection. Asimov's editor Sheila Williams says of this writer, "Ian McHugh has a remarkable ability to render the alien utterly convincing. His nonhuman lives are so powerfully depicted that we can easily, and sometimes uneasily, immerse ourselves completely into their worlds."' (Publication summary)