New Tim Powers book coming March 2012

Hide Me Among the GravesTim Power's newest novel, Hide Me Among the Graves, will be coming March 2012. This is sort of a sequel to The Stress of Her Regard, a tale of vampryic muses in the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley, based on actual events in their lives. There is a continuation of this storyline in the most recent edition of The Bible Repairman and Other Stories that serves as a bridge between the two novels.

h/t The Works of Tim Powers

Forsake the Sky Book Review

by Tim Powers
$3.50; 217 pages 

Forsake the Sky is an updated version of The Skies Discrowned, Tim Powers first book. I am a big fan of Power's early work. I enjoy Forsake the Sky and Dinner at Deviant's Palace more than Earthquake Weather. The earlier books are short and tight, albeit sometimes less polished.

Forsake the Sky is set in a futuristic end-of-empire setting. I've long been interested in cyclical theories of history, and doubly so in fiction, because the rise and fall of empires makes for a cracking good yarn. This is more of an adventure story than one of Power's typical secret histories. And what an adventure it is! Francisco de Goya Rovzar finds himself unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor in the uranium mines before the first chapter is over. Rovzar escapes, finds refuge in the criminal underworld, and works his way to the top. Classic stuff here, the hero's journey, with Power's characteristic themes of providence and the true price of adventure.

This is a great book.

My other book reviews

Tim Powers' New Novel

From the Works of Tim Powers blog:

In the winter of 1862, London veterinarian John Crawford learns that his interlude with a prostitute seven years earlier has produced a daughter. The now-reformed ex-prostitute, Adelaide McKee, has recently learned that their lost daughter is still alive—but that the girl's life and soul are in peril from a vampiric ghost whose murderous attention McKee drew in her bad old days.

Tim Powers Interview

Tim Powers gave an interview to the school newspaper at Cal State Fullerton about befriending Philip Dick, the next Pirates of the Carribean movie, and other sundry topics.

h/t The Works of Tim Powers