Over at The Traveler’s Steampunk Blog, both of our KW Jeter releases have been reviewed. First up, Morlock Night:

Morlock Night is an excellent read… I was both rather charmed and enthralled by Morlock Night, I could not put it down. In fact, I finished it in one sitting. Morlock Night grips you with the tension and action in it… And in the end you close the little book and think it was too short and you finished it too quickly.

Morlock Night gets nine out of ten Zeppelins.

And Infernal Devices:

Nothing is clear in Infernal Devices almost until the very end and there are quite a few surprising and some rather nasty turns. In Infernal Devices, you cannot be sure at all who is the protagonist’s ally and who is not.

K.W. Jeter has created quite a marvelous world in Infernal Devices. Sometimes rather weird and alien but always consistent. The novel also ends with one of the biggest surprises in the history of literature.

And about the two books, generally:

Infernal Devices and Morlock Night are two novels no Steampunk should miss in his collection. They also make great reference material for demonstrating the changes which occured in fantastic literature over the last 30 years.

And these guys know steampunk!

Weirdmage had this to say about KW Jeter’s Infernal Devices:

There is absolutely no doubt that this is a steampunk story, the whole story revolves around clockwork creations. But Jeter has not limited himself to just this aspect, there is also a distinctly Lovecraftian(-ish) element here. Both elements are handled very well, and they compliment each other…

[The action], and there is quite a bit of it, it is handled very well… a must-read novel.

Also at the Weirdmage, Dan Abnett’s superior military SF novel Embedded gets the once-over:

There is plenty of action throughout the story, and Abnett doesn’t pull any punches. He describes a bloody and dirty conflict, that owes more to Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War than to Star Wars. This is of course a good thing… this is a book you should pick up. It’s fast, relentless, and has an ending that I at least did not see coming.

And The Guardian had this to say about Embedded:

Abnett takes an ingenious idea and produces a nail-biting tale that has serious things to say about war and the news media.

That’s not our claim (though we’re happy to agree with it), that’s the mighty SF Book site, reviewing Dan Abnett’s amazing Embedded:

The prose is tight and incredibly well written… At it’s heart Embedded is a gritty military science fiction story, it’s also one of the best books you will read this year, I loved every second of it.

They also review Aliette de Bodard’s Harbinger of the Storm:

I love the way that this series is written, and the style that the author infuses onto the page – the rich mythology of Mexica along with the very real and physical presence of the god’s (there is no room for doubt here that they exist) along with the graphic and frequent bloodletting… the plot is both mature and seductive… while the action is both bloodthirsty and imaginative.

If you haven’t yet read Servant of the Underworld I suggest that you get them both and read them in order, you won’t be dissapointed.

(Worth pointing out that while Harbinger of the Storm is the second in the Obsidian and Blood series, you don’t have to have read the first, as both books function as standalone novels).

And over at The Traveler’s Daily Steampunk, Lavie Tidhar’s superior steampunk romp, Camera Obscura gets the once-over:

A few weeks back I was wondering if Lavie would manage to dethrone himself and make Camera Obscura my new favourite Steampunk novel.
He did.
I think Camera Obscura is required reading for every Steampunk out there.

The full reinforced squadron, ten out of ten Zeppelins!

From SF Signal:

I really enjoyed this book, and blew through it far more quickly than I normally would have. Abnett’s writing is fluid, engaging, and smart, connecting pieces together seamlessly, as we move from bombing to chipping to ambush to several fight scenes, all in fairly straight-forward and logical fashion…

What Abnett’s done with Embedded is do what every really good military science fiction novel should do: there’s equal parts good, solid world-building, attention to the details and modern allegory to the recent military actions around the world. While doing so, he’s told a very exciting story, repent with action, but at the same time, quite a bit of intelligence behind it.

Summary: A smart and exciting military science fiction novel.

The limited edition hardback (exclusive to Forbidden Planet) is published on March 26th.

The eBook and US/Canada mass market editions are published on March 29th.

The UK edition is published on April 28th.