So, who is this Tim Powers geek, anyway?

[Joe Iglesias]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stacy Stroud wrote:

> >Hi.
> >
> >	Allright.  People are talking about Tim Powers as if his name were
> >as holy as... well, John Tynes. :)  I've never heard of the geek. 
> I hadn't heard of him either, until I read a UA review that mentioned his
> works as inspirational.

Oh please say it was mine.

> Since then, he's become The Guy to whom I compare all other treatments of
> magic in the modern world.

Yeah, he rocks on toast.  My modern-occult games haven't been the same
since I read him or Grant Morrison (if anyone reading this has not seen
the great comic The Invisibles PLEASE PLEASE start reading it).

> Other information indicates that Powers was a protege of the famous SF
> writer/visionary/madman Philip K. Dick. 

Dick is king, although UA isn't too Dickian (Bill in Three Persons kind of
is, though).

I am told that PKD wrote TP into VALIS (my favorite PKD work) as Kevin, I
think (the guy who said God was stupid because He created his cat only to
have it get hit by a car).

Joe
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