Fiendish Schemes

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First British publication of the sequel to Infernal Devices, to mark the 30th anniversary of Steampunk. The world George Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London. Dower is enticed into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess. If he can locate and make his father's Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world. File Under-Steampunk A Plague of Lighthouses | Sexual Healing | The lady's Not For Turning | End of the World, Again

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Jeters sequel proves well worth the wait, and sets a new high bar for that ever-evolving style of speculative fiction whose Frankensteinian form he first galvanically jolted into life.
Locus

A full-bodied rambunctious adventure of preposterous proportions that is full of knowing when it comes to people and weird contraptions.
Strange Alliances

Fiendish Schemesis a darkly humored portrayal of Victorian London written in the style of the period and is not for the faint of heart.
Historical Novel Society

Jeters vision of a Victorian world transformed by steam power is fascinating and funny, populated by ambulatory lighthouses, grain-disdaining meatpunks, anarchist coalpunks, and depraved fex addicts obsessed with valve girls. He thoroughly entertains readers with brilliant speculation and a charmingly reluctant hero.
Publishers Weekly, starred review

PRAISE FOR THE GEORGE DOWER TRILOGY:

Its warped humor, digs at steampunk literature, and sheer tonnage of weirdness conveyed through Dowers polite Victorian speech combine to create an unnerving tale that is also, at turns, incisive and deliciously twisted. Its a horror novel in which the monster is, in fact, the whole world, and the inevitable march of steam-powered progress, issuing both a brutal epitaph to the genre Jeter helped bring to prominence, and a challenge for others to push it into stranger waters. From one of the masters of the form, we should expect nothing less.
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

"K W Jeter has created quite a marvelous world inInfernal Devices. Sometimes rather weird and alien but always consistent.
The Travelers Steampunk Blog

"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 ofHomunculusandUnder London

What we see in Infernal Devices is not just the presage 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.
Strange Horizons

Goddamn, what a book. This is like H G Wells with H P Lovecrafts descriptions of darkness run through the mind of Sherlock Holmes writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Its 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 couldnt 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, its absolutely perfect. I could easily have been reading a novel written in 1840. Hes 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

Ill save you the trouble of reading this entire review by simply saying that K W JetersInfernal Devicesis one of the best executed novels Ive 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 Devicesis 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 cant help but pine for a movie version even as you realize that it could never be as good as the book. Its 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

Author Bio

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