Tim Powers

[Craig Clark]

Jim Shirk writes:

> Regarding SF authors that might appeal to the average Pynchon reader (if
> there is such), please consider Tim Powers, whose books include The Drawing
> of the Dark (wuhich refers to a beer with very strange properties), The
> Anubis Gates (travel through time with William Ashbless, poet and
> adventurer), On Stranger Tides (with Blackbeard the Pirate), and Dinner at
> Deviant's Palace (post Holocaust LA).  His Last Call was marketed as a
> mainstram novel.  Good stuff.

The *average* Pynchon reader? Now there's a thought... But Jim is 
quite right: Powers is a most recommendable writer. I mentioned James 
Blaylock, and Jim Shirk mentions "William Ashbless": Powers and 
Blaylock have collaborated on poems published under the Ashbless 
name, and characters by the name of William Ashbless appear in the 
fiction of both. Both Powers and Blaylock were also close friends of 
Philip K Dick in his last years.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"