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In 1986, K. W. Jeter coined the term steampunk, putting it on to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history excursion. At last he has went back with a fresh story of George Dower, kid of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in self-imposed exile...accumulating debt. The globe Dower kept when he travelled into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London; a mad whirl of civilization filled up with gizmos and gears whatsoever expected places. After acknowledging congratulations for his late father's grandest technology - a walking, steam-powered lighthouse - Dower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain into an internet of intrigue with ominously mystical players who've nefarious plans about which he can only just guess. If they can make his father's Vox Universalis work as it was designed, his future is reassured. But his initiatives are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who offers him aid, but seems more thinking about transforming sentient whales to Christianity than in helping George. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated by men, women, and a steam-powered Primary Minister, Dower is captured in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and strategies that threaten to drown him in the chaos of the mad new world.
