Infernal Devices / K W Jeter
“This is the real thing – a mad inventor, curious coins, murky London alleys and windblown Scottish Isles … a wild and extravagant plot that turns up new mysteries with each succeeding page.”
– James P Blaylock
“Pure joy… I couldn’t set it down.”
– SFFBook.com
WHEN GEORGE’S FATHER DIED, HE LEFT GEORGE HIS WATCHMAKER SHOP – AND MORE.
But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. The classic steampunk tale from the master of the genre.
With a delightful new introduction by the author and a scholarly afterword by Jeff VanderMeer.
FILE UNDER: Steampunk [ Intriguing Tech | It's About Time | Musical Interlude | Classic Steampunk ]
More praise for Infernal Devices:
“What we see in Infernal Devices is not just the presager of what steampunk is, but what it could have been, a marvelously self-aware and inventive attack on the obsessions and degradations of the present.”
“I’ll save you the trouble of reading this entire review by simply saying that K. W Jeter’s Infernal Devices is one of the best executed novels I’ve read in a long time, and I easily expect it to be one of my top reads for the year. I guarantee you will enjoy it.”
“K.W. Jeter has created quite a marvelous world inInfernal Devices. Sometimes rather weird and alien but always consistent.”
- The Traveler’s Steampunk Blog
“Suddenly I can see exactly what the whole fascination with Steampunk is all about. Jeter sets the Victorian scene here so skilfully, it’s absolutely perfect. I could easily have been reading a novel written in 1840. He’s impressively deft and accurate in his language of the time, making the novel completely believable, and yet he still writes in a style that is effortlessly readable. His Victorian London is dark, menacing, and compelling.”
“Infernal Devices turned out to be an imaginative and enjoyable read.”
- Book Den
INFERNAL DEVICES
Steampunk
Cover: John Coulthart
7 April 2011
384pp B-format paperback
£7.99
ISBN 978 0 85766 096 1
US/Canada
26 April 2011
384pp mass-market paperback
$7.99 US $8.99 CAN
ISBN 978 0 85766 097 8
eBook
7 April 2011
£5.49
ePub ISBN 978 0 85766 098 5
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