Series
George Dower / Infernal Devices
K. W. Jeter · 3 novels · 1987–2017
K. W. Jeter's trilogy, whose 1987 original helped coin the term 'steampunk,' follows clockmaker George Dower as he's dragged into escalating Victorian conspiracies involving mechanical devices, secret societies, and inventions that shouldn't work but do. Infernal Devices, Fiendish Schemes, and Grim Expectations mix dark comedy with the gears-and-brass aesthetic the series helped establish before it had a name.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Infernal Devicesdarkest
- Fiendish Schemesbrightest · most intense
- Grim Expectationscalmest