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Tim Powers
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:23 pm
by stonemaybe
Anyone read any Tim Powers?
'Anubis Gates' is one of my fave books. It's a wonderful combination of (intelligent) time travel, Egyptian Gods and magic, Romantic-era poetry, beggars' brotherhoods, and lycanthropy (kindof!)
Tried some others by him, though, Drawing of the Dark, Stress of Her Regard, On Stranger Tides, Dinner at Deviants Palace, and haven't enjoyed them at all! All of them have cool settings and plots, but just don't work for me!
I've heard Declare is good, but haven't found it anywhere to buy.
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:49 pm
by danlo
I'll get there one of these days after Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, AFFC, Vellum, Baker, some Mieville, May, Hobb-I really want to read 'Gates' bad
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:45 pm
by duchess of malfi
I haven't tried any of his other stuff, but I
love Annubis Gates.
Danlo -
there's a psycho homicidal clown man running around in that book. You might have problems...
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:00 pm
by danlo
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:27 pm
by Roland of Gilead
Tim Powers is one of my all-time faves. The Anubis Gates is the best time travel novel I've ever read.
Other faves are On Stranger Tides, Drawing of the Dark and Expiration Date (you won't consider pirates, beer or ghosts respectively ever the same again.)
I just got his latest, Three Days to Never, last week, and I'll be starting it soon.
If you've never read Powers, you will have plenty of time to catch up. It too him almost six years between Declare and Three Day to Never. Prolific he ain't.
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:22 pm
by iQuestor
I LOVED ANUBIS GATES.
There was another book I read by him I didnt like, cantremember now the name.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:03 am
by jelerak
On Stranger Tides is my absolute favorite stand alone one volume story.
I read it back around 1988 right before me & Stacey got married. I have been infatuated with pirate stories ever since. We went to Disney World for our honeymoon and I made her get a picture with me at The Pirates of the Carribean ride.
It is my favorite picture of us. She wanted to smile, but I made her give serious look...I told her that pirates don't smile.
Definately a great book.
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:09 pm
by stonemaybe
New Tim Powers' book out this week - Hide Me Among The Graves
"An ancient evil patrols the skies above the Thames, the Romantic poets unite in battle against the Muses, and a parallel world of magic exists in the London streets...Awoken by the poet Christina Rosetti, the vampire Polidori is awake once more. Fiercely protective of his beloved Christina, he bestows upon her the gift of divine poetry...but ensures the violent death of any potential rival for his affections. Trapped by her connection to the undead creature - poised between love, and horror for her immortal soul - Rosetti shuts herself away from the world. But Polidori's abduction of another young girl compels her to join forces against him. With the aid of her brothers, Gabriel and William, and her sister Maria, she enters London's unseen underworld. It is a realm of magically protected human familiars, jealous supernatural beings, and hungry ghosts."
www.amazon.co.uk/Hide-Among-Graves-Tim- ... 843&sr=8-2