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•  Steampunk Prime • interior artwork by Luis Ortiz
• 4 • Foreword: Brit Boffin Delivers Steampunk's Pure Quill! or After Such Knowledge, What Thrills? • essay by Paul Di Filippo
• 8 • Introduction: When Steampunk Was Real • essay by Mike Ashley
• 12 • Mr. Broadbent's Information • (1909) • short fiction by Henry A. Hering
• 23 • The Automaton • (1900) • short fiction by Reginald Bacchus and C. Ranger Gull [as by Reginald Bacchus and Ranger Gull]
• 42 • The Abduction of Alexandra Seine • (1900) • short story by Fred C. Smale
• 52 • The Gibraltar Tunnel • (1914) • short fiction by Jean Jaubert (trans. of Le tunnel de Gibraltar)
• 67 • From Pole to Pole • (1904) • novelette by George Griffith (variant of From Pole to Pole: An Account of a Journey Through the Axis of the Earth; Collated from the Diaries of the Late Professor Haffkin and His Niece, Mrs. Arthur Princeps)
• 89 • In the Deep of Time • (1972) • novelette by Thomas A. Edison and George Parsons Lathrop [as by George Parsons Lathrop]
• 129 • The Brotherhood of Seven Kings: The Star Shaped Marks • [The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings • 6] • (1898) • short fiction by Robert Eustace and L. T. Meade (variant of The Star-Shaped Marks)
• 153 • The Plague of Lights • (1904) • short fiction by Owen Oliver (variant of The Plague of Lights: A Tale of the Year 1906)
• 165 • What the Rats Brought • (1903) • short story by Ernest Favenc
• 174 • The Great Catastrophe • (1910) • short fiction by George Davey
• 182 • Within an Ace of the End of the World • (1900) • short story by Robert Barr
• 195 • An Interplanetary Rupture • (1906) • short fiction by Frank L. Packard (variant of An Inter-Planetary Rupture)
• 206 • The Last Days of Earth • (1901) • short story by Geo. C. Wallis (variant of The Last Days of Earth: Being the Story of the Launching of the "Red Sphere") [as by George C. Wallis]
• 217 • The Plunge • (1916) • short fiction by George Allan England