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The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

door Tim Powers

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML: 2012 World Fantasy Award Winner In his first new collection since 2005, Tim Powers, the master of the secret history, delves into the mysteries of souls, whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable box. With two new stories and short fiction only previously available in limited editions, the cornerstone of the collection is a postscript to his harrowing novel of the haunting of the Romantic poets, The Stress of Her Regard. After Byron and Shelley break free of the succubus that claimed them, their associate, Trelawny, forges an alliance with Greek rebels to reestablish the deadly connection between man and the nephilim. Meanwhile, in a Kabbalistic story of transformation, the executor of an old friend's will is duped into housing his soul, but for the grace of the family cat. A rare-book collector replaces pennies stolen from Jean Harlow's square in the Hollywood Walk of Fame�??and discovers a literary mystery with supernatural consequences. In a tale of time travel between 2015 and 1975, a tragedy sparked by an angel falling onto a pizza shop is reenacted�??and the event is barely, but fatally, altered… (meer)

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Good stories. I especially liked the conceit of the title story. (

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HanJie | May 9, 2016 |

Dark & twisted tales with dashes of humor. In this small collection, Powers really shines at the short form. He riffs on many of the same concepts that he has touched on in some of his longer works. The first five stories could all be off-shoots from his 'Fault Lines' trilogy. There are no character or situational overlaps, but they have the same 'feel' as those novels; the warm & sunny Los Angeles of Powers' imagination is inhabited by dark magic, ghosts, and other unexplainable phenomena.

In the sixth and final story, 'A Time to Cast Away Stones', we re-visit the vampiric world of 'The Stress of Her Regard' and 'Hide Me Among the Graves'. This time focusing on Edward Trelawney, a not-too-minor side character from those novels. It's a brilliant little piece that bridges part of the gap between those two books.

Each story is accompanied by a short blurb from the author where he explains his inspiration to write that particular tale. (

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ScoLgo | Oct 3, 2014 |

The stories build-ups are quite interesting, but the endings are inevitably damp-squibs. (

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SChant | Oct 16, 2013 |

This slim volume contains six of Powers short stories, all of which have been published before. I picked it up because I thought Powers was a steampunk author (based on Anubis Gates) and discovered that steampunk is just a small part of his writing.

In this book we have a story about kidnapped ghosts; one about how a being that moves in five dimensions wrecks things when it moves around on earth; one where a twin sister hopes to run things from the grave; a tale of a funeral with cats attending; one set in 1825 Greece where rebels hope to raise up the old gods. But my favorite was ‘A Soul in a Bottle’, where the ghost of a poet comes to life again for a short time and hopes to get another chance at life. I loved the characters in that story, although it’s brief and although one is not a nice person at all.

All in all, these are tales set on a realistic earth, one we’d feel at home on right up until things seem to be warped a bit and things go to hell. One can almost believe that these things could actually happen. (

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lauriebrown54 | Jul 5, 2012 |

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Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:

2012 World Fantasy Award Winner
In his first new collection since 2005, Tim Powers, the master of the secret history, delves into the mysteries of souls, whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable box.
With two new stories and short fiction only previously available in limited editions, the cornerstone of the collection is a postscript to his harrowing novel of the haunting of the Romantic poets, The Stress of Her Regard. After Byron and Shelley break free of the succubus that claimed them, their associate, Trelawny, forges an alliance with Greek rebels to reestablish the deadly connection between man and the nephilim.
Meanwhile, in a Kabbalistic story of transformation, the executor of an old friend's will is duped into housing his soul, but for the grace of the family cat. A rare-book collector replaces pennies stolen from Jean Harlow's square in the Hollywood Walk of Fame�??and discovers a literary mystery with supernatural consequences. In a tale of time travel between 2015 and 1975, a tragedy sparked by an angel falling onto a pizza shop is reenacted�??and the event is barely, but fatally, altered

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