The WELL: inkwell.vue.48: Tim Powers

#250: Thomas Armagost (silly) Mon 22 Jan 01 18:02

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:02:00 PST

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#249: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 19 Jan 01 15:12

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:12:00 PST

Tim Powers will be appearing at the following locations to discuss and sign copies of his new book _Declare_ which he described to me thusly:

"It's about British and Soviet spies in the Middle East in the 1960s. And genies. And Kim Philby."

Here are the reviews from amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380976528/o/qid=979945421/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/105-5516192-3387111

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it's 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah's ark. James Theodora is the |ber-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There's plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of A Thousand and One Nights, which is Hale's guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and amonon plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There's a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat. This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers's many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time. --Jane Adams

Dean Koontz "DECLARE is a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly, packed with historical fact, dazzling flights of imagination, and wonderful suspense."

Thursday, January 25, 7PM University Bookstore 4326 University Way, NE Seattle, WA (206) 545-4363

Friday, January 26, 7:30 PM Powell's Bookstore 1005 Burnside Portland, OR (503) 228-4651

Monday, January 29, 5PM Dark Carnival 3086 Claremont Avenue Berkeley, CA (510) 654-7323

Tuesday, January 30, 7PM M is for Mystery 74 E. 3rd Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 401-8077 [Read entire topic]

#248: Linda Castellani (castle) Mon 6 Mar 00 13:35

Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:35:00 PST

Posted in wrong topic. [Read entire topic]

#247: Nick Bantock (purgatory) Sun 5 Mar 00 23:38

Sun, 05 Mar 2000 23:38:00 PST

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#246: Tim Powers (timpowers) Fri 3 Mar 00 15:27

Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:27:00 PST

Facing the dangerous puberty years. Luckily I've read up on the subject. [Read entire topic]

#245: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 29 Feb 00 12:53

Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:53:00 PST

A leap preteen! [Read entire topic]

#244: Linda Castellani (castle) Tue 29 Feb 00 12:45

Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:45:00 PST

Today is Powers' birthday. He has finally reached the age of 12 and is seriously considering what kind of career field he should go into. [Read entire topic]

#243: Linda Castellani (castle) Tue 1 Feb 00 18:54

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 18:54:00 PST

Now I'm worried. [Read entire topic]

#242: Thomas Armagost (silly) Tue 1 Feb 00 14:37

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 14:37:00 PST

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#241: John Shirley (johnp-shirley) Tue 1 Feb 00 13:35

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:35:00 PST

Those black choppers were testing a mind control device on you, "silly"--there were actually *ten* choppers.

I was walking the dog, our slavering, brutish, six pound yorkie, when I heard a middle aged neighbor talking to an elderly gent about the criss-crossed jet con trails in the sky. He said he'd heard *online*--you know, where the really *reliable information* is--that such a pattern indicates they're testing mind control sprays hidden in the contrail or planting disease organisms for secret military black ops testing. The old man said, "Well no, I was in the Air Force, actually they fly those grids because they're training for search patterns or--"

"You're not hearing me--I read this in black and white on the internet...!"

Serious. There's a whole trip about Evil Contrails that's sucked into the same militia-fomenting stewpot seething with exaggerated stuff about Waco, how the Columbine killings were carried out by the UN as part of its government takeover plan (Oh yes! I've HEARD that one) and etc, the sorta stuff that will lead to thenext equivalent of the Oklahoma City bombing...lots of good stuff like this at www.sightings.com - some of the most widely read and radically irresponsible stuff on the web. I got into a long thread of arguments with the guys who run the website about it...Modern superstitions... [Read entire topic]