{"id":18156,"date":"2016-12-23T01:35:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18156"},"modified":"2016-12-23T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T01:37:06","slug":"the-george-dower-trilogy-by-kw-jeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/12\/23\/the-george-dower-trilogy-by-kw-jeter\/","title":{"rendered":"The George Dower Trilogy by KW Jeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My latest covers for Angry Robot<\/a> are a return to the world of steampunk, and also a return to the novels of KW Jeter, the man who not only wrote some of the pioneering novels of the sub-genre but also invented the term steampunk in the first place. Infernal Devices<\/em> was one of the pioneering texts, and it’s a book that’s been very good to me in its earlier Angry Robot edition<\/a>, with a cover design that’s been well-received around the world. (It still pops up regularly on the front page of Goodreads<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The brief for the republication was to create fresh covers for Infernal Devices<\/em> and for its two sequels; the second of these, Fiendish Schemes<\/em>, was first published by Tor with (at the author’s request)\u00a0another cover of mine<\/a> that matched the Angry Robot design. Grim Expectations<\/em> is a new novel which makes George Dower’s adventures in an alternate-history Britain into a trilogy. The request for the new designs was to avoid the detailed Victoriana of the earlier editions in favour of something that would suit the content but be a little more restrained. Mention was made of the Picador covers for Italo Calvino<\/a> that Gary Day-Ellison designed with the Quay Brothers in the 1980s. Those covers are personal favourites so I was happy to use a similar vertical division with small illustrative elements, the details of which relate to the stories but without being too literal. My designs are a lot more florid in comparison to the Calvinos but then the content demanded a shift of emphasis. After having created a lot of steampunk art emblazoned with cogs of all shapes and sizes the one thing I didn’t want to do was use more cogs on these covers. So the background pattern for Infernal Devices<\/em> is cog-like but is actually an abstract design I found in a book of 19th-century decoration. Similarly, the circle motifs at the top of each cover are also cog-like but are more Victorian embellishments.<\/p>\n

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All three books will be published in June 2017; a long time to wait but there’s more about the new novel\u2014and the series as a whole\u2014at Tor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Steampunk in the Tank<\/a>
\n\u2022 More vapour trails<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk catalogued<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Calendar<\/a>
\n\u2022 Words and pictures<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nathanial Krill at the Time Node<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fiendish Schemes<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Revolution<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Bookman Histories<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aether Cola<\/a>
\n\u2022 Crafting steampunk illustrations<\/a>
\n\u2022 SteamPunk Magazine<\/a>
\n\u2022 Morlocks, airships and curious cabinets<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Steampunk Bible<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Reloaded<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk overloaded!<\/a>
\n\u2022 More Steampunk and the Crawling Chaos<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Redux<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk framed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Steampunk Horror Shortcuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest covers for Angry Robot are a return to the world of steampunk, and also a return to the novels of KW Jeter, the man who not only wrote some of the pioneering novels of the sub-genre but also invented the term steampunk in the first place. Infernal Devices was one of the pioneering … Continue reading “The George Dower Trilogy by KW Jeter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,20,23],"tags":[3864,1754,399,8654,407,1753,249],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-airships","tag-angry-robot","tag-brothers-quay","tag-gary-day-ellison","tag-italo-calvino","tag-kw-jeter","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4IQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}