Among other stories, this anthology includes Steampunk tales from Australia and the Amazon, there is a Steam Cleansing machine that alters human's souls, a prisoner/maniac who produces bestselling novels and machine schematics, a time portal opened accidentally by a steam powered mechanized band, leaving behind a mastermind's airship and devices, a trio of misfits on a journey across a distant planet's desert who are forced to save their lives by using a time forgotten steampunk technology, and an unusual transportation device to quickly cover distances on the emerging American continent.