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And it turned out that the science/steampunkiness was very good! **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time.

Just know it has all the fun and adventure of a Jules Verne story, but lighter.

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The Anubis Gates (Ace Science Fiction)

For the majority of the book, the author shoves the first-person narrator through inexplicable and astonishing events, and then crams their eventual denouement into a few pages via A lot of imagination went into this book, but not enough discipline or storytelling craft.

Plus fish folk and puritanical movements dedicated to rubbing I'd give this a 3.5 if it were possible because there is a lot to admire about this book - the first steampunk book literally (Jeter coined the term in an interview) and that fact alone is enough to get the stars rising.

Although certain elements of the plot are very predictable , this is a classic, easy to read steampunk novel that you do not want to put down.

Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel.”

That was a book with a lots of imagination and it kept my attention.

It had no characters in whom I was invested.

Overall

It's fun, silly, often ridiculous, and in no way intended to be taken too seriously, I think.

But idle sometime-musician George has little talent for clockwork.

the steampunk feel is there but not over descriptive, so a little imagination is needed to visualise the world.

K W Jeter has created quite a marvelous world in Infernal Devices.

I really wanted to like it more, but the pacing was a bit inconsistent for me and I kept drifting off. Overall

**Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. I liked parts of this book, but overall there wasn't enough steampunk in it.

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This has to be one of the best books I have read. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service.

Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.

If you love steampunk, the forward alone will be worth the purchase.

I suppose namers-of-things are not necessarily the best tellers-of-stories.