A steam-powered cowboy with a taste for death. A daring art heist in a moving city. A zeppelin flight through the smoke-filled skies of a Europe torn apart by volcanoes. This collection brings together nine stories of mechanical endeavour and daring do from worlds where pistons and clockwork are king. Each short story explores a different steampunk world or alternate history, from the Wild West to the sewers below Venice. Starring scientists, detectives, criminals, and more strange technology than you can shake a pair of brass goggles at. So get on board and ride the mainspring to adventure.