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Morlock Night

by K.W. Jeter (Goodreads Author)

3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 · rating details · 232 ratings · 46 reviews

JUST WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE TIME MACHINE RETURNED? Having acquired a device for themselves, the brutish Morlocks return from the desolate far future to Victorian England to cause mayhem and disruption. But the mythical heroes of Old England have also returned, in the hour of the country's greatest need, to stand between England and her total destruction.

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Published April 7th 2011 by Angry Robot (first published 1979)

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Oct 02, 2011 Marvin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

The idea of a sequel to H. G. Wells' Time Machine is irresistible. Morlocks stealing the time machine and invading England of the 1890s? Fascinating. If only someone other than K. W. Jeter wrote this. Someone who actually had respect for the classic science fiction story. Instead we get a jumble in which the original plot of the Time Machine is jettisoned for a mishmash concerning King Arthur, Merlin and the lost city of Atlantis. Even then this could have been salvageable if not for Jeter's poo...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Alan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Morlock Night follows Edwin Hocker, a guest of the Time Traveller from Orwell’s The Time Machine, as he walks the streets of 1892’s London fresh from the Time Traveller’s storytelling. He is met by a strange man identifying himself as Dr. Ambrose who asks Hocker to consider the implications of Morlocks and the Time Machine. After parting company, Hocker’s familiar London disappears in a cloud of explosives. In a flash the world has changed to a place overcome by the Morlocks described by the Ti...more Morlock Night follows Edwin Hocker, a guest of the Time Traveller from Orwell’s The Time Machine, as he walks the streets of 1892’s London fresh from the Time Traveller’s storytelling. He is met by a strange man identifying himself as Dr. Ambrose who asks Hocker to consider the implications of Morlocks and the Time Machine. After parting company, Hocker’s familiar London disappears in a cloud of explosives. In a flash the world has changed to a place overcome by the Morlocks described by the Time Traveller. These Morlocks however wear clothing and carry weapons. They try to make short work of Hocker when he is saved by a tough-as-nails woman named Tafe. She fills in the details about London that Hocker is sorely missing, and soon they are ambushed by Morlocks.
Waking after believing himself to be dead, Hocker is once again in the company of Dr. Ambrose. Hocker is told by Ambrose that the Time Traveller has brought about the end of existence through his interference in the natural flow of time. The Time Traveller, intent upon rescuing the Eloi from the Morlocks, loses his Machine to the Morlocks and is killed. A class of Morlock superior in strength and intelligence to the ones seen by the Time Traveller use it frequently and result in a ‘temporal implosion’ that effectively undoes the universe. After this revelation all but destroys the will of Hocker, Ambrose offers up a solution to the universe’s predicament: Ambrose is none other than the ancient wizard Merlin himself, and to defeat the Morlocks they only need to enlist the help of Britain’s greatest defender, King Arthur. Hocker and Tafe are charged by Merlin to rescue Arthur and restore Excalibur. The legendary sword has been desecrated by Merlin’s greatest foe and cannot be wielded by a weakened Arthur.
Merdenne, Merlin’s ancient foe, has sided with the Morlocks and has used the Time Machine to bring multiple copies of Excalibur into 1892. This has had the effect that the four copies divide the sword’s power—Excalibur remains a constant power regardless of the number of copies so each sword has one quarter of Excalibur’s full power. Incomplete, Excalibur cannot restore Arthur to health and strength.
Merlin promises to remove Merdenne from 1892 so that Hocker and Tafe can find the copies and restore Excalibur to the King. Hocker and Tafe head into London’s sewers where one copy is in the Grand Tosh, a pile of wealth lost to the sewers by surface-dwellers. It is here that the Morlocks have been amassing their army. The action comes to a head with Hocker and Tafe captured by the Morlocks and travelling forward though time to meet the architect of the Morlock invasion, but it is not at all whom Hocker and Tafe expected.

Morlock Night is a very unusual story, as it combines two very different stories: H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine and Arthurian Legends. I think it would have been better had the story not used The Time Machine as a departure point at all. Having read The Time Machine, I found Jeter’s interpretation of the Morlocks and the Machine itself to be too far removed from the original text. He invents characteristics for both the time machine and the Morlocks beyond the scope of Wells’s novella because it fits with his own story. I would have enjoyed it much more if the threat to Victorian London had been an original creation for Hocker to overcome, not one plucked from a completely different book. Keep Arthur but drop time travel. The Time Machine is a thought-provoking work of social commentary; Morlock Night, as the first work to receive the distinction ‘steampunk,’ was simple and action-driven. I was particularly disappointed when I read that while Hocker possessed one Excalibur, the three others had been taken to another time. By The author’s own explanation, Excalibur’s power was a constant so it should have all flown to Hocker’s sword the moment the other three copies were removed. The surprise ending was both predictable and a let-down.
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May 12, 2013 David Merrill rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an odd sequel to H. G. Wells' book, The Time Machine. Jeter interweaves Wells' creation with Arthurian legend and Atlantean lore. On top of that, Morlock Night is one of the earliest examples of Steam Punk. The author of the afterword credits Jeter with not only the coining of the term but also the founding of the genre. He forgets James Blaylock's The Ape Box Affair predates this novel. It's hard to believe they along with Tim Powers started a sub-genre with their books that became so...more

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Jul 02, 2012 D.M. Dutcher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: steampunk

Good if you take it as it is, as wild pulpy yarn of a story. People who think steampunk is girls in hoop skirts and crinoline who build giant robots in their spare time might be a little disappointed, though.

Imagine what would happen if the inventor of the time machine got captured and eaten by the morlocks. They discovered how to use it, and traveled back in time to try and kill us all. Now add some crazy twists, like the only way to defeat them is to summon King Arthur and rescue Excalibur, an...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Ian Tregillis rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People interested in the roots of steampunk fiction

This book wasn't for me, unfortunately. I'm a little surprised, and more than a little disappointed, to have to say that.

As a reader I'm attracted to big, wild, crazy ideas. If the ideas are cool enough, I'm more than willing to look past the parts of a book that don't work quite as well. And this book -- one of the original steampunk novels, written by the man who originated the very term -- practically boils over with wonderful ideas. A direct sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine? Sign me...more This book wasn't for me, unfortunately. I'm a little surprised, and more than a little disappointed, to have to say that.

As a reader I'm attracted to big, wild, crazy ideas. If the ideas are cool enough, I'm more than willing to look past the parts of a book that don't work quite as well. And this book -- one of the original steampunk novels, written by the man who originated the very term -- practically boils over with wonderful ideas. A direct sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine? Sign me up! Submarines, Morlocks, Victorian sewers, time machines, and King Arthur? How could this be anything but a wild romp?

Alas. I'm sorry to say this fell quite flat for me.

It begins with terrific promise, picking up just moments after the Time Traveler of Wells's novel has finished relating the tale of his far-future travels to his dinner guests. But then Merlin shows up, and things quickly get muddled.

Our hero, Edwin Hocker, is a completely ineffectual twit who spends most of the book demanding that other characters explain things to him. He's dragged from adventure to adventure by the people around him or, on multiple occasions, sheer dumb luck. His sidekick Tafe, the laconic warrior lady, is so thinly characterized that I frequently forgot about her entirely. She tends to disappear for tens of pages at a time, even when she's supposedly trekking right along with Hocker. The plot itself leans just a little heavily on plot coupons. (Although, in the coupons' defense, the notion of using a time machine to make multiple copies of Excalibur is pretty neat.) And when Hocker finally assumes something resembling a heroic mantle, the climax of the novel is related in passing, told to us in summary during the final 10 pages. Frustrating.

It's entirely possible that this book just happens to rub up against several of my readerly idiosyncrasies. This book receives high praise as being one of the progenitors of steampunk. Perhaps I'm just the wrong audience for it. One extra star for sheer audacity.

A note on the afterword included in this edition:

In his afterword ("K. W. Jeter, Morlock Night") Adam Roberts suggests that Jeter's brash and highly creative juxtaposition of Arthuriana and The Time Machine was intended as a "textual counterpoint" to Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court. Well, I dunno, maybe it was. But I think there's a simpler explanation. It's pretty well established that in the mid-1970s Jeter, Tim Powers, and a few other authors heard tell of a British publisher which was seeking to produce a series of books following the adventures of King Arther reincarnated during various historical periods. As Powers himself relates in the introduction to this very same edition, they haggled over the assignment of historical periods. Jeter won the Victorian era; Powers got the 16th century (hence his wonderful novel, The Drawing of the Dark.) (less)

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Sep 18, 2011 Tim Pendry rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: alternative-histories, dark-fantasy, heroic-fantasy, mythology, north-american, popular-culture, twentieth-century

This is a jolly old romp, written in 1979, but it doesn’t deserve the praise heaped on it by Tim Powers in his introduction and implicitly in the intelligent backgrounder by Adam Roberts at the end.

Powers’ own ‘Anubis Gates’ (1983) is vastly superior as one of the originating texts of ‘steampunk’

‘Morlock Night’ quite simply does not stand up to scrutiny as the equivalent of, say, ‘Neuromancer’, the genuinely well written founding novel of Cyberpunk.

Roberts does, however, usefully point out th...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Catherine Siemann rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: neovictorians

By now the Jeter/Blaylock/Powers origins of steampunk are legendary; I really didn't like Blaylock's Homunculus, and while I found Powers' The Anubis Gates wonderfully imaginative, overall I didn't care for it nearly as much as I did the darker and more ambitious early steampunk The Difference Engine (Gibson & Sterling) or Powers' own play with the Romantics and the lamia legend in The Stress of Her Regard.

So I approached this one nervously; was I going to strike out completely with the Orig...more

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Aug 14, 2011 Lorna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: steampunk

I'm currently working my way through the three seminal novels which provided the basis for the genre of fiction known as Steampunk, noted for its retro-technology, alternate-history focus - The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers, Morlock Night by KW Jeter, and Homunculus by James Blaylock which I've yet to acquire, let alone read.

I hadn't read HG Wells' The Time Machine until just before starting Morlock Night (she admits, shuffling her feet slightly) and it's essential to do so, as Jeter's book is a 19...more

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May 27, 2011 Chris King Elfland's 2nd Cousin rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Steampunk Fans, Readers of Cherie Priest or Gail Carriger or Tim Powers or George Mann

NOTE: This review was originally published at The King of Elfland's 2nd Cousin on April 26, 2011. If you want more reviews like this one, please check it out!

The best science fiction is protean by nature, combining facets of just about every other genre and defying neat classification within the bounds of SFdom. K.W. Jeter’s Morlock Night straddles many sub-genre fences: Victoriana secret history, steampunk, and Arthurian legend. Originally published in 1979, the book is judged one of the proge...more

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Apr 05, 2011 Marcus rated it 4 of 5 stars

Morlock Night is a sequel to H.G. Well’s Time Machine. The Morlocks have gotten hold of the time machine and are rampaging through time, bent on conquering Victorian London and the world. They are opposed by none other than Merlin and King Arthur. There is also a touch of Atlantis in this cocktail. Yes, the blood of the Atlanteans flows in English veins.

The clicheés of the times (Morlock Night was first punlished in 1979) do not end there. The lines of good and evil are also very clearly drawn....more

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Sep 15, 2012 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: steampunk, victorian-settings

K.W. Jeter is supposedly the originator of the term "steampunk" and Morlock Nights was first published in 1979. Jeter starts with the ending of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. To my surprise I found myself back in the London sewers with a retired tosher—the last novel I read, a Terry Pratchett entitled Dodger, was set partially in the London sewers. Henry Mayhew is given mention in this book, but does not figure in it as a character, as he does in Dodger. Although the storyline is compelling I nev...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, steampunk

(Cross-posted to my sci-fi blog, Android Dreamer.)

With steampunk being the current "big thing" in science fiction and fantasy, I got an itch to go back and read some of the earliest instances of the genre. Call me a party pooper, but I think the steampunk of today has turned into nothing but an exercise in ridiculous fashion and totally gone away from actually telling a good story. Having previously really enjoyed K.W. Jeter's The Glass Hammer, I was intrigued by the idea of Morlock Night.

Morloc...more (Cross-posted to my sci-fi blog, Android Dreamer.)

With steampunk being the current "big thing" in science fiction and fantasy, I got an itch to go back and read some of the earliest instances of the genre. Call me a party pooper, but I think the steampunk of today has turned into nothing but an exercise in ridiculous fashion and totally gone away from actually telling a good story. Having previously really enjoyed K.W. Jeter's The Glass Hammer, I was intrigued by the idea of Morlock Night.

Morlock Night is not the first The Time Machine sequel written by someone else, but is one of the better known ones. The basic idea is that one of the attendants of the party in which the Time Traveler told the story of his adventures to the future is having a chat with a man named Dr. Ambrose about whether or not the story is actually true, and by the time he gets home he finds himself thrust into a London that has been taken over by the Morlocks of the future, who appear to have stolen the Time Traveler's machine.

In many ways, Morlock Night is a standard fantasy romp. The narrator has to find various copies of Excalibur and put them together to restore the legendary sword to power, and give it to a reincarnation of King Arthur so that he may drive the evil from England and save the world from the Morlocks. Jeter writes absolutely brilliantly, though, and I think Jeter captures the narrative voice of Wells so perfectly that if I were told this was written in the late 19th century, I wouldn't doubt it for a second. With the previous novel of his being a cyberpunk adventure, I was surprised by how different his style of prose was in this.

To compound the good points of Jeter's writing overall, his characters are really compelling. The narrator (Edwin Hocker) is a sympathetic character that is very easy to like, and the woman Tafe who accompanies him throughout is a perfect steampunk heroine who frequently kicks and takes names. Dr. Ambrose is similarly interesting; I really have nothing bad to say about any of the writing or character development at all. This novel really grabbed me early on and only got better as it went on. Perhaps the overall plot was a little simplistic, but it was still deeply enjoyable. (less)

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May 16, 2011 MB Taylor rated it 3 of 5 stars

I just finished reading Morlock Night. It’s an early steampunk novel by the man who is credited with coining the term (in 1987) and a sequel to H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895). In addition to Morlocks & Wells’ Time Machine, Jeter gives us Excalibur, Arthur, Merlin and Atlantean artifacts.

Unlike many contemporary steampunk novels, Morlock Night doesn’t revel in its steampunk-ness. It takes place (primarily) in 1982 London but (view spoiler)...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Destructo The Mad rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book single-handedly (well, maybe it had some help from Gail Carriger) redeemed the genre of Steampunk for me. The other steampunk novels that I have read, or tried to read, have been uniformly awful.

I loved the way that the updated technology was seamlessly grafted into the story, without me having to suspend my disbelief that late 19th century inventors could have invented steam-powered walking tanks, or the other silly and ridiculous devices that infest other steampunk books.

I'm going t...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Patrick Hayes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Steampunk" was coined by this author, in regards to other writers' works, but this is as right on the money perfection for a literary example of this genre. Published originally in 1979 and reissued in 2011, this is a fast, fun, adventure novel that begins at the ending of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and then kicks into overdrive when it is revealed that the time traveller was killed upon his return to the future, the Morlocks got the time machine, and are now underneath England, waiting to sp...more

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Jun 26, 2011 D.J. Butler rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, science-fiction

This is a terrific book that gets inappropriately low ratings on, for instance, Amazon and Goodreads. I think that steampunk fans read it expecting whirling gear-driven devices a la Jules Verne, and instead they get a story about King Arthur chasing through time to recover the temporally-displaced copies of Excalibur in order to be able to fight off the Morlock invasion of London. And they throw up all over it.

Which is too bad, because this book is great.

It's a sequel both to H.G. Wells's _The T...more

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Jun 13, 2013 Fantasy Literature rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-by-kat

K.W. Jeter’s Morlock Night (1979) is often cited as the first novel to be categorized at “steampunk.” In a 1987 letter to Locus magazine, Jeter coined the term in an effort to describe the types of stories that he and his friends Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock were writing:

Personally, I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing, as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers, Blaylock and myself. Something based on the appropriate technology of that era;...more

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May 29, 2013 Ryan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, steampunk

This one had a lot going for it - it's one of the first steampunk novels, and combines Arthurian legend, Atlantis, and the novels of HG Wells. As one of my favourite podasts says during the sponsor breaks, "I like ALL of those words!"

It might be that I'm so fond of all of those things that I didn't enjoy this as much as I might otherwise have - it's a fairly well-told story, but it felt like all of the different elements of it were just being thrown together for the sake of throwing them togethe...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Costa rated it 2 of 5 stars

Morlock Night - The Seminal Steampunk Novel.

One could be terribly critical and use the correct terms, deconstruct the plot and characterisations explain exactly why one didn’t find a novel worthy, in terms others (and even ones self) probably wouldn’t fully understand.

Or one could get right to it: I didn’t like this book - and I really, really wanted to like it - but it was silly.

The first couple of chapters are a fine introduction and really rocket along, with the story picking up directly wher...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Roland Volz rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, steampunk, time-travel

This sequel to The Time Machine takes place almost immediately after the original book left off. It takes the logical progression of events from the original set-up: the narrator of Wells' book has just completed telling his story to his party guests and is about to journey back to the future to rejoin the Eloi.

Jeter takes the next logical steps. Assuming the morlocks were as intelligent as implied in the original story, he presumes that they use the Time Machine to launch an invasion the past....more

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Dec 15, 2011 Jerantino rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: autographed-editions

In K.W. Jeter's novel Morlock Night, the Morlocks have stolen the Time Machine and used it to invade Victorian London. These Morlocks are much more formidable than those in The Time Machine - a clever, technological race with enough power to take over the entire world. They also get support from certain treacherous 19th century humans, especially a dark wizard named Merdenne. It is also revealed that the Morlocks living in their native time (the 8,028th century) have stopped allowing the Eloi to...more In K.W. Jeter's novel Morlock Night, the Morlocks have stolen the Time Machine and used it to invade Victorian London. These Morlocks are much more formidable than those in The Time Machine - a clever, technological race with enough power to take over the entire world. They also get support from certain treacherous 19th century humans, especially a dark wizard named Merdenne. It is also revealed that the Morlocks living in their native time (the 8,028th century) have stopped allowing the Eloi to roam free and now keep them in pens.

The Morlocks are separated into two types, or castes, in the novel. One is the short, weak, stupid Grunt Morlocks, who are supposedly the kind that the Time Traveller encountered, and the other is the Officer Morlocks, who are taller, more intelligent, speak English, and have high rank within the Morlock invasion force. An example of the latter type is Colonel Nalga, an antagonist later in the book.

These Morlocks are always described as wearing blueish spectacles, which are presumably to protect the Morlocks' sensitive, dark-adapted eyes. in the most contrived portion of the narrative, King Arthur and Merlin appear as England's saviors.

I grew up reading this type of book in the 70's from publishers like Daw, Ace, and Berkley/Signet, which this book reminded me of immensely of. This should not be suprising, as it was originally published by Daw in 1979. The type of fast paced, almost free-form, free association kind of story telling where the author picks Point A and Point B and just goes off and gets there by any means necessary.

The many scenic detours this novel contains come heavily influenced, by all accounts, by the seminal work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor. Which I imagine is quite a rip-roaring read in and of itself as it was the springboard of all the lore of the London sewers, thick with fascinating details lifted straight from the afore mentioned tome.

Jeter's eagerness to make this the most mindbogglingly imaginative novel ever leads him into shuddering excesses. Guess what! The gentleman responsible for alerting our narrator, Hocker, to the peril is none other than sorceror supreme Merlinus Ambrosius. Only by reassembling Excalibur and unearthing the current incarnation of Arthur can the Morlocks can be defeated. (And who could the incarnation of Arthur possibly be? You may well ask.)

Meanwhile, and for no apparent reason, it turns out that the remoter portions of the sewers -- where the foot of civil engineer has presumably never trod -- connect with the pan-European subway system established by the bygone people of Atlantis. For fuck's sake, render me a break, Dooley.

All this improbable material is actually assembled with more literary dexterity than one would suspect from the mere list, but I couldn't force myself to believe it. Yet ... the predictable ending does somehow avoid utter corniness; though flawed, Morlock Night isn't bad as an entertaining romp.
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Aug 31, 2012 Joe rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Righteously called the first of the "steampunk" novellas, K. W. Jeter explores the ramifications of H. G. Wells' Time Machine falling into the hands of the Morlocks. An alternate history Victorian London becomes the final battleground for mankind, as future terror challenges ancient myth.

Sometimes heavy-handed, particularly when relating the inner thoughts of the protagonist, the book remains a ripping pulp adventure that is worthy of any science fiction reader's bookshelf.

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Sep 16, 2012 Genevieve's Human rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, novel

I'm not very good at predicting what will happen in books and movies, mainly because I get so wrapped up in the stories that the endings are only a tiny fraction of what makes them worthwhile, or not, to me. Despite that, this book practically screamed its ending, and I found that rather annoying. Aside from that, it was relatively well-constructed and well-written if a bit dated.

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Mar 31, 2013 Darren Humphries rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, fantasy

For a book entitled Morlock Night, the titular creatures aren't hugely in evidence. Also, Wells' scientific writing is abandoned for a fantasy story of magica swords, resurrecting kings and immortal wizards.

It's an easy read, but the twists are obvious, some of the action doesn't work and the ending abrupt considering the languid pace earlier on.

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Nov 08, 2012 Byakurai rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: owned

A very casual read indeed. Not only does the reader need no profound knowledge of the H.G.Wells' classic, but the author also manages to drag in the Arthurian legend as well as the myth of Atlantis. On so few pages it cannot be properly dealt with. The plot is bleakly predictable and with a bitter aftertaste I am giving it two stars.

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Aug 31, 2011 Gwen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Considering that this book helped launch steampunk I had to read this book. It took me about half the book to get into the story. It moved slow, and the Victorian England prose didn't help matters. But I did appreciate that the book was written in that style and the world was really immersive. Jeter also manages to take random elements - Morlocks, time travel, Excalibur, and sewer rat - and weave them together in a way that makes perfect sense.

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Jan 07, 2012 Bill rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

Maybe it was the low expectations I had for this book after reading the other reviews, but I was pleasantly surprised with this story. There were lots of elements that seemed to come from way out there, and there was quite a bit of poetic license taken by Jeter. But, that being said, it did not seem over the top. Not going to call it a literary masterpiece, but definitely a guilty pleasure read.

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Apr 27, 2012 Zac rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gets one star for the simple fact that I can't give it less. I have heard five year old children tell stories with less holes in them. Its really an insult to the classic.

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Feb 13, 2012 Francis rated it 5 of 5 stars

Masterful.

The beautiful clarity of the prose put me in mind of G.K. Chesterton. The story is absolutely, amazingly nuts.

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Feb 21, 2012 Jim Sanderson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's a fun book, silly and slap-dash. Read on it's own terms, it's a fine little read, embodying many of the elements of the genre it's an early example of.

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Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universe, and has written three (to date) sequels to Blade Runner.

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“I believe it " announced Tafe complacently.

"That my dear " said Ambrose "is because you grew up in a rough and violent world here just managing to live from day to day is easily considered a miracle. You are able to accept the truth no matter how astonishing its guise. Whereas our friend Hocker here is steeped in the overweening rationalism of his time and could mentally dismiss a mastodon in front of him if it happened to be wearing the wrong school tie.” — 2 people liked it

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