littlemissattitude
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If you all want to read some short fiction by Tim Powers, look for A Soul in a Bottle, published by Subterranean Press in 2006.
It is a shortish story (runs 83 pages of fairly large print), published in hardback with seven lovely full-page illustrations by J. K. Potter. It's a ghost story which takes place in Hollywood. If you like Powers' work, or if you like ghost stories, you probably won't be able to put it down. I read it in one sitting, in maybe an hour.
Funny story about the book...It has three typos. Well, not typos, exactly, but in three places not the exact word that Powers intended to be used. I didn't realize that when I first read it, maybe a year or year and a half ago, out of the library.
However, when I was at LosCon last Thanksgiving weekend I happened on a limited edition copy of the book, which I bought so that I could have Powers sign it. Which he did. What was funny was that after he signed the title page, he asked if I would like him to correct the typos. Which he then proceeded to do, turning to three different pages, crossing out a word on each page and writing the correction in the margin in each case. It was so cool.
I had big reservations about going ahead and going to LosCon, as my mother's health had deteriorated significantly in the couple of weeks before the con (and in fact she passed away the following weekend). But, everyone from friends to the people at the board and care facility which was taking care of my mother urged me to go ahead and go, that I'd been under a lot of stress and it would be good for me. And so I went, and now I'm glad I did because I have this cool book with corrections in the author's hand and this neat story to go with it.
But, the main thing is...this is a very, very good story and if you like Tim Powers' work at all you should seek it out and read it.
What of his short fiction have you read and liked?
It is a shortish story (runs 83 pages of fairly large print), published in hardback with seven lovely full-page illustrations by J. K. Potter. It's a ghost story which takes place in Hollywood. If you like Powers' work, or if you like ghost stories, you probably won't be able to put it down. I read it in one sitting, in maybe an hour.
Funny story about the book...It has three typos. Well, not typos, exactly, but in three places not the exact word that Powers intended to be used. I didn't realize that when I first read it, maybe a year or year and a half ago, out of the library.
However, when I was at LosCon last Thanksgiving weekend I happened on a limited edition copy of the book, which I bought so that I could have Powers sign it. Which he did. What was funny was that after he signed the title page, he asked if I would like him to correct the typos. Which he then proceeded to do, turning to three different pages, crossing out a word on each page and writing the correction in the margin in each case. It was so cool.
I had big reservations about going ahead and going to LosCon, as my mother's health had deteriorated significantly in the couple of weeks before the con (and in fact she passed away the following weekend). But, everyone from friends to the people at the board and care facility which was taking care of my mother urged me to go ahead and go, that I'd been under a lot of stress and it would be good for me. And so I went, and now I'm glad I did because I have this cool book with corrections in the author's hand and this neat story to go with it.
But, the main thing is...this is a very, very good story and if you like Tim Powers' work at all you should seek it out and read it.
What of his short fiction have you read and liked?
