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Infernal Devices
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Publisher's Summary
When George’s father died, he left his son a watchmaker’s shop - and a whole lot 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, wild music, and sexual intrigue.
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- David S. Mathew
- 09-26-16
The Original Steampunk
J.K. Jeter first coined the term "Steampunk" in a bar with Tim Powers and J.P. Blaylock as the trio discussed the Neo-Victorian novels they were planning to write. Jeter then cemented the word in a letter to Locus magazine describing Infernal Devices and the rest is history: an artistic sub genre was born!
Infernal Devices is the first steampunk novel (not counting the works for Wells & Verne) and this production was definitely tailored for those wanting to learn more about Jeter's unintentional pop-culture movement. The narration is exquisite and the novel itself is a fun adventure story, but don't expect any deep thinking to result from it alone; Jeter had no clue what exactly he had created with this one. Overall, if you're curious about the history of Steampunk, you won't do much better than this. Highly recommended!
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- DarthVal
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This one was just okay
This one was just okay for me. I really wanted to like it more, but the pacing was a bit inconsistent for me and I kept drifting off. The narration was also just okay.
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- Alan C. Earing
- 04-25-19
Nostalgic and inspirational
I have been disappointed in steam punk, yet I'm repeatedly drawn back to it. I can also taste its peppering in stories that would NOT be labeled steam punk. So, perhaps it floats in the ether as a zeitgeist, or it's more of an elemental device... so, I asked the question "what is the origin of the genre?"
I discovered KW Jeter.
I'm so glad I have!
I now know the flavor, the pure raw form! As a writer, a chef of words, I love discovering spices and recipes! And though I've encountered these specific items before, it was always someone else's recipe and always a fusion with something else.
I'm inspired to try my own fusion, and all it took was an encounter with a dish from 1987... a good vintage, if I may say so myself! I was 8 y/o, and had fallen in love with the pop culture of the decade. Infernal Devices, though set in a Victorian age, conjures up ghosts from my beloved decade! What I may end up writing may be an homage to not only steam punk, but also the era of my youth... instead of the glamour and social strife of the second industrial revolution, the final Reagan era has a bit of the same resonance for ME! I can't wait to get started!
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- Dawn
- 01-19-16
Loved it!
This has to be one of the best books I have read. This is my first Steampunk book and I plan on enjoying many more!
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- JTF
- 10-15-13
Initial foray into steampunk good with missses
Overall, interesting story with some misses. It had no characters in whom I was invested. There was some interesting characters along the way but only as a point of curiosity not of true interests.
The story was also a bit disjointed; I almost had a sense of going between various set pieces who connection was tenuous.
Finally, while I know why Mr. Jeter has Scape use the language he does, uses the Lord's name in vain was unnecessary and would not have been accepted in Mr. Dower's world. For this reason alone, I cannot recommend this book.
Michael Page did an admirable job narrating
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- Jim "The Impatient"
- 10-09-12
First is not always best
Written in 1987 this is suppose to be the first steampunk novel and Jeter is suppose to be the one who coined the term. You find this out in the introduction. Unfortunately the introduction was the most interesting part of the book. I wanted to like this book after having read Jeter's "Farewell Horizontal". That was a book with a lots of imagination and it kept my attention. This book has imagination, but could not keep my attention.
I found that my mind kept wondering off. I tried hard several times to bring myself back to the plot, but could not keep it there. I did find the use of language to be charming, it just was not enough.
I don't know actually what you call it, but he uses the ploy where certain characters know things that the main character and you the reader are trying to figure out, but they are always putting him off. "Come back tomorrow at midnight and I will tell you." He comes back at midnight and the character is dead.
When ever the character gets into trouble he is miraculously rescued.
The narrator is good and I have heard him read other books and I have not had the mind wondering problem.
If Farewell Horizontal comes out in audio, get that.
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- Jack of Fools
- 04-09-15
Enjoyable steampunk.
This is a nice easy read (or, rather, listen) with a nice popcorn novel plot and lots of interesting characters. Its not bogged down with a bunch of moral questions or philosophy, and I like it just how it is. Let Gibson worry about morals and transhumanism. Sometimes I like that, but sometimes I just want to read a good story in a specific fiction theme. Just know it has all the fun and adventure of a Jules Verne story, but lighter. The best part about this is K.W. Jeter was one of the first (possibly "the" first) to really take a hand to the steampunk style, back in 1987, and this holds up just as well (better, really) than the modern steampunk written in the last few years since mainstream interest has picked up.
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- Barbara
- 10-31-11
Some books are meant to be read...
Michael Page does as well as anyone possibly could, but some books are meant to be read, not heard, and this is one of them. The novel is a hoot, I recommend it, but not the audio version.
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- Iliebeneathyou
- 12-20-20
its raycist
Everything today is raycist. We white people understand that steam punk is just a code word for white supremacy. The author is actually the grand dragon of the clunky clue clan who orchestrated the election of Donald Trump and is now hanging out in South America where he is working with white scientist to resurrect Aldolf Hitler.
Jeff Bezos will be pulling this story offline along with anything else remotely critical of the corporate elite.
get it now so you too can support raycism and be put on the list of undesired.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-23-19
The penultimate steampunk story.
Superbly written and narrated. If you love steampunk, the forward alone will be worth the purchase.
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- Sam Marshall
- 12-14-17
It's just... Not that great.
I really struggled to finish this one. I really expected more from the man who coined the term "Steampunk." I'm sure the story was fine, humorous even, but the delivery from the narrator was just way too dry for my liking. I suppose namers-of-things are not necessarily the best tellers-of-stories. If you're looking for some gripping steampunk nonsense, this probably isn't it.
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- Mr MA Lawrence
- 05-09-13
Infernally good!
I've actually owned the Paperback version of this book for quite a while and have been a fan of K.W Jeter for quite some years, this is a very good audio version of a what is seen as a "steam punk" classic by some and overlooked by many. unfortunalty Audable only seems to have a couple of Mr Jeter's original fiction and none of his Horror books (of which he has done some really good work) and a lot of serializations of TV shows (i've read the Blade runner books but would rather read his fiction), this and Morlock Night are on Audable and i advise you to listen to both of them. if you have a chance get to read or listen to the following:
Dr Adder (Sci-fi in the vein of PK Dick not for the faint hearted. he actually sent this to Dick when he was a student and Dick did the forward for the paperback i have),
Dark Seeker (great Horror - crying out to be a film)
Farewell Horizonal (great Sci-fi cyberpunk and very readable)
any of his horrorbooks
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- Prester Jim
- 04-08-21
The Hermetic Order of The Golden Vibrators
Rambunctious romp through the byways of classic speculative fiction from K. W. Jeter. Located in a pseudo-Victorian world that sets bizarre automata, mad aristocrats and weird creatures alongside cut-throats, con-men and heaving bosoms, this book reads like a template for the nascent Steampunk sub-genre. Full of secret societies, time-travelling psychonautics and bawdy humour, Jeter's stylish writing and well-constructed plot suggests 'The Man Who Was Thursday' had it been written by Robert Anton Wilson; a clear debt to Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' can also be detected. However, unlike either of those sterling works, this book has no metaphysical or post-modern subtext, but is simply a fantastical adventure, well told; the ribald conclusion being a great example of dumb done smart.
Michael Page does a capital turn with the narration. His game performances are lively and distinct; there is something of Peter Sellers in his upper-class accents whilst several others seem to be drawn wholesale from the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise. His approach generally works well and sweeps the story along at a tidy pace. Yet by favouring a lightly comic tone I suspect he has omitted some of the eeriness present in Jeter's prose. His portrayal of the protagonist cements that character's stuffed-shirt priggishness and makes for a slightly unsympathetic lead. Nonetheless, an extremely enjoyable tale.
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- concreteboy
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not the worst book ever but ...
by far not the worse book I've ever listened to but lacks either the charm/interest of characters you want to know more about or Care for and the counter point of deeply stilted main character is jarringly put against crazy sudo American language of the other two main characters. better books out there!
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- Mr. R. J. Hall
- 01-17-18
Superb steam punk tale
This was my first venture into Steam punk as a written genre and I don't think I could have picked a better book. A style full of echoes of Verne and Wells with humour and invention galore!
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- Christine
- 10-30-17
An excellent original
One of, some say THE first, Steam Punk novels. I almost gave up immediately on this as the narrator didn't strike me as very good, but I persisted and this ended up being an enjoyable, fast paced story with great steam punk devices and fantastical creatures. I loved it!
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- josh
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A fantastic representation of classical steampunk
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