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Infernal Devices is quite a different reading experience to Morlock Night. Where Morlock Night has a plot that is transparent right from the start, nothing is clear in Infernal Devices almost until the very end and there are quite a few surprising and some rather nasty turns. In Morlock Night, good and evil are clearly definded, in Infernal Devices, you cannot be sure at all who is the protagonist’s ally and who is not.
The novel features a somewhat happles protagonist, George Dower, the inherito ...more
The novel features a somewhat happles protagonist, George Dower, the inherito ...more
Early steampunk, written as steampunk, a defining novel for the sub-genre.
I enjoy Mr. Jeter's writing style. He takes the Victorian voice a little too far and achieves a humorous result.
As for this story, the protagonist is incompetent, being rescued constantly and never achieving anything in the entire novel. Not the sort of hero one can relate to. Despite this, it is well written and the plot moves along fairly quickly. ...more
I enjoy Mr. Jeter's writing style. He takes the Victorian voice a little too far and achieves a humorous result.
As for this story, the protagonist is incompetent, being rescued constantly and never achieving anything in the entire novel. Not the sort of hero one can relate to. Despite this, it is well written and the plot moves along fairly quickly. ...more
Mar 17, 2010
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