So, who is this Tim Powers geek, anyway?

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Stacy Stroud <sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: So, who is this Tim Powers geek, anyway?
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 6:00 PM
> 
> Powers is reported to be working on a new book that gives the occult
> history of the Cold War, with infamous British Secret Service traitor Kim
> Philby as the protagonist.

	Oh, too cool.

> Other information indicates that Powers was a protege of the famous SF
> writer/visionary/madman Philip K. Dick.  Powers' college chum and fellow
> Dick disciple, James P. Blaylock, is said to write similar works.  I
> haven't checked him out yet, though.

	Blaylock's stuff is good, for the most part, but it tends to be less
appropriate for UA than Tim Powers'.  Still books to check out are "The
Paper Grail" (about the Fisher King), "The Last Coin" (about the 30 coins
paid to Judas), and "Homunculus".  Unlike the first two, "Homunculus" is
set in the middle of the 19th Century, but I think it's the most
interesting of the lot.  It's got a hunchback who raises the dead with the
help of glands pilfered from carp, a scientist who has created a working
spaceship, a missing airship, various evil types, and three identical boxes
created by a toymaker: one contains a perpetual motion machine, one is a
chlorinator for the air onboard the spaceship, and one contains a tiny
alien.

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