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Title: The Devils in the Details by James P. Blaylock, Tim Powers, Phil Parks ISBN: 1-931081-89-1 Publisher: Subterranean Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Must for Fans of Powers and Blaylock
Comment: Blaylock and Powers have been collaborating for thirty years, often implicitly influencing each other and sometimes, like here, collaborating on stories with both their names on them. Fans of either should appreciate the brief account of that collaboration in this book's afterward and introduction and, specifically, the comments on the volume's three stories.
As is typical for his shorter work, Powers abandons his characteristic secret histories. In "Through and Through", a weary, lukewarm priest confronts a ghost in the confessional and rethinks the power and significance of Catholic ritual. But, if we don't get an epic combining of magic and history, Powers still works in some interesting thoughts on the Garden of Eden.
The modern obsession with inclusivity on college campuses is satirized in Blaylock's "The Devil in the Details". A college president's attempt to build a Christian chapel is thwarted by forces both silly and sinister.
I must admit that I appreciated and understood Powers' and Blaylock's collaboration "Fifty Cents" more after reading Blaylock's afterward. But, even on the first reading, the protagonist's quest -- searching in used bookstores for a book once given to him by his dead wife -- and the odd characters he meets in his drive through the desert Southwest, kept me interested.
Each story gets its own introductory illustration, and Blaylock's afterword is in the form of an inserted pamphlet.
Collectors or fans of either of these authors will want this book not only for the stories but the accounts of a longstanding literary friendship.
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Title: 13 Phantasms and Other Stories by James P. Blaylock ISBN: 0441010148 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Budayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger, Barbara Hambly ISBN: 1930846193 Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson ISBN: 0380977427 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Colonel Rutherford's Colt by Lucius Shepard ISBN: 1931081743 Publisher: Subterranean Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Brighten to Incandescence: 17 Stories by Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard ISBN: 1930846169 Publisher: Golden Gryphon Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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