K. W. Jeter

Infernal Devices is a steampunk novel by K. W. Jeter, published in 1987 . The novel takes place primarily in Victorian London. The story begins as a mysterious Brown Leather Man enters George's watch shop with a strange device in need...

In this article: Infernal Devices and London

...by Philip K. Dick. Due to its violent and sexually-provocative content, it took Jeter approximately ten years to find a publisher for it. Jeter is also the first to coin the term "Steampunk", to describe the retro-technology,...

In this article: Philip K. Dick, Tim Powers, James P. Blaylock, Blade Runner, California State University, Fullerton, Star Wars, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Star Trek

...representation in Los Angeles after writing Blade Runner Down, a spec sequel to the film Blade Runner, based on the novel '' by K. W. Jeter. He then wrote an early draft of ''The Mutant Chronicles, followed by an adaptation of The 10th Victim...

In this article: Alex Proyas, Edgar Allan Poe, Battle Chasers, Sci Fi Channel, Paradise Lost, Mutant Chronicles, Masque of the Red Death, and University of Kent

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human (1995) is a novel by K. W. Jeter, and a continuation of both the film Blade Runner, and the novel upon which it was based, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? After the events shown in...

In this article: Rick Deckard, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, and Blade Runner

...Runner when asked "What have you seen?" during his interview for the position of bodyguard to three bullied freshmen. In K. W. Jeter's novel Noir '', a Tannhauser is a type of firearm used by the main character. Jeter was a friend of...

In this article: Tannhauser, Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer, David Peoples, Heavy Gear, Speed of light, and Gunbuster

...is physically human, the question of whether he is "human" by any meaning of the word in the reader's world is left open. In K.W. Jeter's Blade Runner novels, Rick Deckard is rediscovered by the Tyrell Corporation, who want to use him...

In this article: Rick Deckard, Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Harrison Ford, Tyrell Corporation, Los Angeles, K.W. Jeter, and Philip K. Dick

...Mars. It remains a fun yet overlooked bit of early steampunk. That said, it isn't a strong example of what the subgenre can do-unlike K.W. Jeter's 1987 book Infernal Devices, a Victorian-Era romp full of clockwork androids (which, along with...

In this article: Steampunk, Ann VanderMeer, Philip Pullman, Michael Chabon, Jeff VanderMeer, Steampunk, Mars, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ekaterina Sedia, and Civil War

Noir is a science fiction novel by K. W. Jeter, published in 1998. It uses the conventions of film noir - the alienated, doomed hero, the cynical private detective, the femme fatale, universal corruption and moral breakdown - to portray a...

In this article: Noir and Capitalism

...England after reading, London Labour and the London Poor , a classic text by Henry Mayhew. Powers said that the book was KW Jeter's (Jeter coined the term "steampunk") and that it was passed around to both Powers and James Blaylock,...

In this article: Tim Powers, London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew, Dictionary, Herbert Asbury, The Fool, KW Jeter, Cory Doctorow, and Wikipedia

...in March 1993 with Pocket Books publishing the series. Various books of the series were written by L. A. Graf, Peter David, K. W. Jeter, Barry B. Longyear, David Spencer, Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens. All of the books...

In this article: Alien Nation, Tenctonese, Pocket Books, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Black Like Me, and Barry B. Longyear