After many a summer

Tim Powers, 1952-

Book - 2023

A down-and-out screenwriter is hired to deliver a mummified head as the ransom for a kidnapped Belgian heiress, but his encounters with the supersitious kidnappers and the heiress lead him to question his actions. --from Amazon.

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Genres
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Novellas
Published
Burton, MI : Subterranean Press 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Tim Powers, 1952- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
84 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781645241249
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

World Fantasy Award winner Powers (Stolen Skies) is a master at turning gonzo concepts into mystical thrill rides, and this latest novella is no exception, setting a mummified head as the ransom in the kidnapping of Belgian heiress Arielle. This severed head speaks prophesies, and the kidnappers are Hollywood executives desperate to keep their sinking studio afloat by using the head's predictions to only back hits. Assisting them is Conrad, a down-and-out screenwriter promised a big payment for an old script if he can get the head; the windfall might help reunite him with his estranged family. But Conrad's scruples and a series of strange time loops get in the way, giving him a chance to rethink his decisions. Powers places his tale in a bleakly rendered Southern Californian landscape as bereft of magic as an empty film lot, with characters whose amoral focus on their bottom lines blind them to the costs and marvels of real magic. Readers who enjoyed the skewering of popular institutions in Carl Hiaasen's Florida will be equally delighted by Powers's cynical portrait of his own adopted state. Agent: Russell Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency (Jan.)

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