| Author/Contributor(s): | Powers, Tim |
| Publisher: | Baen |
| Date: | 3/2/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Nine wild visions from the mind of Tim Powers!
From a sorcerer’s den in 19th century London, to two orphan girls fighting a psychic parasite in post WWI Paris, to raising the dead in modern Los Angeles, to a haunted sea voyage in the afterlife, these stories will transport you from the ordinary world to wonders that lie just beyond it.
- On an infinitely big ship carrying souls to an ominous afterlife, one soul tries to turn back.
- A man with second sight works to get justice for the ghost of a murdered woman.
- The son of a recently deceased Los Angeles sorcerer fights to protect his sister from his father’s predatory spirit.
- Raising the ghost of a murdered scientist inadvertently opens a parallel world.
- The son of a famous 1920s painter fights to resist possession by his father’s ghost.
- A sorcery-savvy crime lord in 1810 London kindles intelligence in the tabula rasa mind of a half-wit beggar, with unexpected results.
- The ransom in a kidnapping is a mummified oracular head.
- An antediluvian chamber in which man has never set foot offers “uncollapsed probabilities” of a new world, and a charlatan clergyman tries to use it to become God.
- Two fugitive girls in WWI Paris confront a psychic parasite.