So, who is this Tim Powers geek, anyway?

[Kevin Mowery]

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> From: Joe Iglesias <jchurch at bu.edu>
> To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: So, who is this Tim Powers geek, anyway?
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 6:34 PM
> 
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stacy Stroud wrote:

> > 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).

	I've heard that, too, but I've never read Valis.  The character you're
describing sounds an awful lot like Harlan Ellison, though.  In "The
Deathbird", IIRC, Ellison explains how because his dog died, God is evil.


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