[UA] Tim Powers

[Don Quixote]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Michael Daisey wrote:

> I am not convinced Tim Powers is all that and a bag of chips, to
> coin current idiom.
> 
> I have read "Last Call" and "The Anubis Gates", and while Powers is 
> a lot of fun, his characters seem pretty flat.  They have epic and
> mythic qualities, which works well with his writing, but the lack the
> grit and grime of the James Ellroy book, "Black Dahlia", that I'm 
> reading now which is making me consider a UA campaign set in the 40's.

Ok.  You hit the nail on the head here.  Ellroy convinced me to set a Kult
campaign in the late 30's/early 40's.  I'm about halfway through last Call right
now, and I'm gonna agree with the post that said that, like most S.F., the
strength of the work lies in the *ideas* represented than the characters(this is
the biggest reason I haven't read more Dick- I *love* his Ideas, but just can't
wade through the crappy sixties SF descriptions and characters).


						justin