Re: Tim Powers.

On 7/3/24 7:33 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Titus G wrote:

I think I have had enough of Tim Powers after reading The Anubis Gates.
It began brilliantly and until we ended up in the 17th century, I still
thought it would continue in a similar way but there was far too much
nonsensical physical and magical violence that was gratuitous and
fortuitous being unnecessary for plot nor character attributes.
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 I can never get enough of Powers ("Earthquake Weather", excepted) though his more recent work seems a bit toned down, or perhaps that's just me.

I agree. More specifically, I would describe the first two Vickery & Castine books that way, and -- mostly independent of the description -- I'm not sure if I'll read the third.
Tony

 For me the best of his novels over the past decade or so are "Hide me among the graves" and "Medusa's Web".
 Powers definitely did have an early tendency to mangle his protagonists.
  William Hyde