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Tag: Tim Powers

Looking ahead to books in 2022

Some of the books that I hope to read this year include:

Stolen Skies, by Tim Powers. This comes out in just a few days, the third in the Vickery and Castine series. Not sure where he’s heading with the characters, but the story looks fascinating.

The Consequences of Fear, by Jacqueline Winspear. Latest in the Masie Dobbs series. As I only pick up the soft cover editions in this series, I need to wait a while after initial publication. This is a February release.

Road of Bones, by James R. Benn. I have to wait until September or October for this one, when it gets the soft cover edition. Sorry, Ms. Winspear and Mr. Benn, but as I have all the others in softcover, I can’t break tradition.

Sword & Ice Magic, by Fritz Leiber. Unlike the ones above, this is a limited edition hardcover, published by Centipede Press. It may or may not be released in 2022. I won’t know until shortly before publication. I finally get to retire the last of my Fafhrd and Gray Mouser Ace paperbacks.

The Mines of Behemoth, by Michael Shea. Another Centipede Press possibility. Announced via email. Hardcover edition. We shall see. One of those few luxuries I afford myself if it happens.

I don’t know if there are other books I want, vs. ones I stumble across, but so far these are the only ones on the aforementioned list.

New Tim Powers collection

I’m a huge fan of Tim Powers, but not mad enough to spend $300 for this limited edition of the collection short stories of Tim Powers, from Subterranean Press. Limited to only 124 copies, it’s already sold out, anyway. Maybe some day it will filter down to a less limited edition, as it contains at least one new story.

Salvage and Demolition: new Tim Powers novella

Tim Powers fans rejoice! Subterranean Press is publishing a new, 21,000 word novella called Salvage and Demolition. Apparently the limited edition is already sold out, and no doubt the trade edition shortly will follow suit. The brief description sounds like classic Powers stuff:

Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary—and unpredictable—adventure.

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