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Tim Powers

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(eng) Tim Powers shares the pseudonym "William Ashbless" with writer James P. Blaylock.

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Declare (2000) 1,487 kappaletta
The Stress of Her Regard (1989) 1,238 kappaletta
Expiration Date (1995) 1,072 kappaletta
Three Days to Never (2006) 1,043 kappaletta
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Hide Me among the Graves (2012) 621 kappaletta
Strange Itineraries (2005) 301 kappaletta
Medusa's Web (2016) 279 kappaletta
Forsake the Sky (1976) 194 kappaletta
Salvage and Demolition (2013) 186 kappaletta
13 Phantasms and Other Stories (2003) — Coauthor in two short stories — 170 kappaletta
Down and Out In Purgatory (2016) 143 kappaletta
Nobody's Home (2014) 142 kappaletta
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A Soul in a Bottle (2006) 122 kappaletta
An Epitaph in Rust (1976) 95 kappaletta
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On Pirates (2001) 69 kappaletta
Pilot Light (2007) 65 kappaletta
Forced Perspectives (2020) 64 kappaletta
The Devils in the Details (2003) 58 kappaletta
Powers: Secret Histories: A Bibliography (2009) — Tekijä — 43 kappaletta
The Properties of Rooftop Air (2019) 42 kappaletta
My Brother's Keeper (2023) 31 kappaletta
Stolen Skies (2022) 25 kappaletta
After Many a Summer (2023) 25 kappaletta
Anubiksen portit. 2. kirja (1993) 23 kappaletta
Anubiksen portit. 1. kirja (1992) 21 kappaletta
A Time to Cast Away Stones (2009) 13 kappaletta
Earthquake Weather, Part 1 of 2 (2002) 11 kappaletta
Where They Are Hid (1995) 11 kappaletta
Declare, Part 2 (2003) 11 kappaletta
Earthquake Weather, Part 2 of 2 (2002) 10 kappaletta
Declare, Part 1 (2003) 10 kappaletta
El reparador de Biblias (2009) 9 kappaletta
My Brother's Keeper (2023) 9 kappaletta
Nine Sonnets (2006) 7 kappaletta
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Appointment on Sunset (2014) 3 kappaletta
Ten Poems 2 kappaletta
Poems (2016) 2 kappaletta
Anachronist 2 kappaletta
The Way Down the Hill 2 kappaletta
Declare 1 kappale
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The Anubis Gates 1 kappale
Anubis Kapilari (2020) 1 kappale
Parallel Lines 1 kappale
The Better Boy 1 kappale
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999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (1999) — Avustaja — 616 kappaletta
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Morlock Night (1979) — Johdanto, eräät painokset307 kappaletta
The Door to Saturn (The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 2) (2007) — Johdanto, eräät painokset242 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987) — Avustaja — 201 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume One (2007) — Avustaja — 198 kappaletta
The Urban Fantasy Anthology (2011) — Avustaja — 197 kappaletta
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories (2018) — Avustaja — 166 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 Edition (2011) — Avustaja — 121 kappaletta
Year's Best Fantasy 5 (2005) — Avustaja — 120 kappaletta
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume IV (1988) — Avustaja — 97 kappaletta
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 Edition (2012) — Avustaja — 89 kappaletta
Fantasy: The Best of 2004 (2005) — Avustaja — 76 kappaletta
Mines of Behemoth (1997) — Johdanto, eräät painokset72 kappaletta
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Omnibus (2015) — Avustaja, eräät painokset66 kappaletta
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (2008) — Tekijä — 57 kappaletta
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (2012) — Avustaja — 50 kappaletta
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume XV (1999) — Avustaja — 49 kappaletta
The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2 (2011) — Avustaja — 46 kappaletta
The Man in the Moon (2002) — Johdanto, eräät painokset26 kappaletta
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 32 (2016) — Avustaja — 25 kappaletta
Christmas Forever (1993) — Avustaja — 25 kappaletta
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2019 Edition (2019) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Imagination Fully Dilated (Anthology) (1998) — Johdanto — 9 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 75 • August 2016 (2016) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Bifrost n°50 (2008) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Old Curiosity Shop (1999) — Esipuhe — 6 kappaletta

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Group Read: On Stranger Tides - Spoilers, 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (kesäkuu 2011)
Group Read: On Stranger Tides, 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (tammikuu 2011)
***Group Read: Steampunk (spoiler-free), 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (syyskuu 2010)
***Group Read: Steampunk (SPOILERS), 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (kesäkuu 2010)

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A spy novel/secret history of the 20th century, with the cold war, and the Great Game recast as a contest to either control or destroy actual, literal djinn. Third time reread. It continues to work really well for me.
 
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adamhindman | 41 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 5, 2024 |
Firstly, the UK cover is both stunning and deceptive. If the library copy I borrowed had been the US edition, I think I would have passed. I thought I was getting another Brontë detective novel, a la Bella Ellis, and not whatever this was.

Secondly, what the hell did I just read? Werewolves and ghosts and Catholic sects, oh my. I won't ask why the Brontës were the main characters - that's what drew me in - but honestly, the plot was an insult to even Wuthering Heights, never mind Anne, Charlotte and Emily. And the author just - throws the reader in the deep end. Emily comes across a wounded man bearing a two-pronged knife at Ponden Kirk and tries to help him before going for back up. When she gets back, he's vanished but left his weapon, which she shows to her father. The Rev launches into a tale about a little dark haired child brought over from Ireland, who may or may not have been a werewolf, and all hell breaks loose. After that, I lost track.

Emily is the lead sister yet again, and she is both nonconforming and unrelenting, I'll give her that: 'Emily thought of the ways in which she was indeed already set apart. The idea of marriage and children had never held any attraction for her, and conviviality of the sort going on in the bigger room beyond the door at her back was unfathomable: dissipation, in every sense. The people of the village, and of the remote busy world, were ciphers - their motives, if any, only to be guessed at. Her strength and firm identity thrived in solitude.' Charlotte is either absent or opposed to her sister's behaviour, and Anne is quietly curious. Branwell - hoo boy, I forgot possession in the description above! - is not himself for much of the story, either. Emily's dog Keeper is the best of the supporting cast. I didn't really get a sense of the siblings' personalities or the Yorkshire setting, because the focus is heavily on the contrived supernatural plot. Werewolves as a horror device are ridiculous - overgrown dogs controlled by the moon and stopped by silver bullets - but the breath-sucking ghosts were cool. And on a nitpicking level, the constant reference to mid-nineteenth century women 'grabbing their coats', like the Brontës wore Barbour jackets, was jarring.

Note to self: pay better attention to the blurb in future.
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AdonisGuilfoyle | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 2, 2024 |
This occult magic-based thriller is set in Hollywood 2015, but its cultural epicenter is the 1922 film production of Salomé directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Zaminova. There is also a gothic mood, informed by overt references to Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher."

On the occultism front, I was hoping for something as good as Powers' own Declare, but I found the magic in this book more reminiscent of one of Chuck Palahniuk's books (say, Lullaby or Rant). The acute sense of place and local history also strongly reminded me of Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness, although the occult technology in Medusa's Web is an idiosyncratic sort of sigil magic rather than Lieber's megapolisomancy.

It's a medium-long novel, but it reads very quickly. The details of cinema history are well researched and effective, and the central characters are fairly compelling. I liked it pretty well. As I look back to compare it to Declare, I see that Powers must have followed a similar process with both, doing thorough historical inquiry and filling the gaps of motive and causation with a supernatural conceit. Since the results are so different in the two books, I continue to be curious about the author's other recent work.
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paradoxosalpha | 12 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 27, 2024 |
Old mercenary finds himself employed by mysterious man in Venice to become a bouncer in Vienna's most popular brewery. A couple of months before Austria gets invaded in full force by Turks.

If you think above sounds not so interesting (I said he is hired to be bouncer right :)) then let me tell you that this is just the start - this adventure includes mythical creatures, mystics, an ancient conflict between East and West and of course reincarnation... lots of it. And beer, let's not forget the beer - beer is sort of a main character here (heh, wine is described as less potent drink here that actually helps you sleep and relax :))

Humor permeates the entire story and you'll find yourself giggling every so often :)

if you like "High Crusade" (and if you did not read it do it immediately :) ) you will like this one too.

Highly recommended.
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Zare | 27 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 23, 2024 |

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James P. Blaylock co-author of some stories, Afterword, Author
James Blaylock Introduction, Contributor
J. K. Potter Cover artist, Illustrator
Phil Parks Cover artist, Illustrator
Gahan Wilson Illustrator
John Pelan Contributor
Gail Cross Cover designer
Beth Gwinn Photographer
Dean Koontz Introduction
Karen Joy Fowler Contributor
China Miéville Contributor
Dirk Berger Illustrator
William Ashbless Contributor
John Bierer Contributor
Donald MacPherson Cover artist
Paul Campion Cover artist
David Stevenson Cover design, Cover artist
James Gurney Cover artist
Gino D'Achille Cover artist
Walter Brumm Translator
Jeffrey K. Potter Cover artist
Gérard Lebec Translator
Don Brautigan Cover artist
Mark Bilokur Illustrator
Nico Keulers Cover artist
David Palumbo Illustrator
M. K. Stuyer Sj Translator
Ramsey Campbell Introduction
Jim Burns Cover artist
Arnie Fenner Hand-Lettering
Hannes Riffel Translator
Richard Carr Cover artist
Philippe Caza Cover artist
Michael Koelsch Cover artist
Rick Lovell Cover artist
Cristina Macía Translator
Richard Clifton-Day Cover artist
Doug Beekman Cover artist
Simon Prebble Narrator
Mark Salwowski Cover artist
Albert Solé Translator
Simon Vance Narrator
David O'Conner Cover artist
John Berkey Cover artist
Mikki Paajanen Cover artist
Cristina Macía Translator
John Berkey Cover artist
Ron Walotsky Cover artist
Kelly Freas Cover artist
Paul Di Filippo Introduction
Bryan Cholfin Jacket Design
Greg Spalenka Cover artist
Todd Lockwood Cover artist
Carol Russo Cover designer
Jon Foster Cover artist
Desert Isle Design Cover designer
Adam Burn Cover artist

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387
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13
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125

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