K W JETER attended college at California State University,
Fullerton where he became friends with James P Blaylock and Tim
Powers, and through them, Philip K Dick. Jeter coined the term
"steampunk", in a letter to Locus in April 1987, to describe the
retro-technology, alternate-history works that he published along
with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. As well as his own wildly
original novels, K W Jeter has written a number of authorized Blade
Runner sequels.
Website- https-//steamwords.wordpress.com/
Social media- https-//twitter.com/kwjeter
Author hometown- Las Vegas, USA
“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, author of Homunculus
“What we see in Infernal Devices is not just the presager
of what steampunk is, but what it could have been, a marvellously
self-aware and inventive attack on the obsessions and degradations
of the present.”
– Strange Horizons
“Goddamn, what a book. This is like H G Wells with H P Lovecraft’s
descriptions of darkness run through the mind of Sherlock Holmes
writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s about as screwy as it gets,
complete steampunkery, with a duo who are scamming their way across
the land through an entirely different set of devices. Must read…
Pure joy. I couldn’t set it down.”
– SFBook.com
“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.”
– Fantasy Nibbles
“A delicious and quite insane romp through the gas-lit streets of
London. Absolute must-read!”
– SFRevu
“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.”
– The Little Red Reviewer
“A truly fantastical journey that requires a suspension of
disbelief – but makes you all the happier for it.”
– My Shelf Confessions
“A skillfully handled, wonderfully inventive, and agreeably witty
adventure.”
– Kirkus Reviews
“Infernal Devices is a ripsnorting, grandly comical
Victorian-era potboiler that is far more entertaining than the most
recent Indiana Jones movie; indeed it is more exciting than any big
budget Hollywood blockbuster that I have seen in the past five
years. It is that rare book that is both literary and cinematic.
You can’t help but pine for a movie version even as you realize
that it could never be as good as the book. It’s full of crazy,
clockwork automatons, cliffhanger chapter endings, sinister
conspiracies, and gloriously impossible super-science. It is a book
which will transport you to another reality.”
– Tetsuo Broker
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