I haven't read Vacuum Flowers, but I guess I should, because I can vouch for the other one, The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. An amazing feat of fantasy.
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I'm delighted to see that most of Tim Powers' books are in print. So many other excellent mid-range authors are lost to the used-book stores.
In my blog: El Navegante Solitario I wrote about the two novels I took to my vacation this (southern) summer, on February: The House in the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson, and The Anubis Gates. Wonderful. Both.
ReplyDeleteThe first one, is that the story with the loooooong time?
ReplyDeleteYes. In fact, it was the germ for two novels about loooooooong spaces of time: The Star Maker, by Olaf Stapleton, and The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells. Both in Hodgon's and Wells', there is a narrator who sees the sun and the moon drawing lines in the sky, as time accelerates.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly a highly imaginative book. I read it after Alan Moore recommended it.
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