"Ghosts and guns" — a collection of steampunk short stories from Russian authors.
Cold mist from the Thames mixed with Chad factory chimneys, hiding silhouettes and suppresses the sounds. The full moon illuminates the Moors and ancient castles, over which the screaming damned souls centuries ago. Steel fish glide in the water column or the heavenly heights, and their creators in unprecedented audacity of his challenge to the Creator. Elusive as a shadow, unstoppable, like a vapor, followed by the barking of a Gatling, a fierce roar of turbines and the clanking of gears, strides a new era. Essential! Impressive! Elementary!
And yet this never write in the times.

Abstract some of the stories
Cartilage and pearls.
Second invasion of Martians far worse than the first. In the channel one by one showered capsules with illegal immigrants. And who are the Martians? Octopus, octopus, clams. And where shellfish – there pearl. Where the pearls were there criminal intrigue. Where criminal intrigue – there can not do without Sherlock Holmes.
Alien.
The city has not adopted this invention, the city turned its inhabitants into dummies and was sent to kill... Porcelain mechanoids saved them, sacrificing themselves.
The hand of the Colonel.
Once civilization was carrying military weapons in the hands. But it has become old fashioned – they were replaced by surgeons with scalpels. The future is electric and surgery for a mechanical ocelots and limb for rational vivisectors...
Yttygran
In an alternate world, arranged according to the ideas of physics of the XVII—XIX centuries, where the space is filled with ether, and reactions thermodynamic controls phlogiston, steam technology reached its peak. Podpisnye British ships master the milky Way, on the back of which lurked the unknown enemy.
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