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FIENDISH SCHEMES
By: K.W. Jeter
Tor Books
October 2013
On Sale: October 15, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0765330946
EAN: 9780765330949
Paperback
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In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term \"steampunk,\" applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has returned with Fiendish Schemes, a tale of George Dower, son of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in new self-imposed exileΓ’β¬Β¦accumulating debts. The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London, a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected places. After accepting congratulations for his late father\'s grandest inventionΓ’β¬βa walking, steam-powered lighthouseΓ’β¬βDower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain 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 fatherΓ’β¬β’s Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future, he is promised, is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who promises him aid, but is more interested in converting sentient whales to ChristianityΓ’β¬βand making moneyΓ’β¬βthan in helping George. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated by men, women, and the steam-powered Prime Minister, Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world.
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