Tim Powers is well-known for taking an actual historical setting and taking that into something much more fanciful. So listen up as Richard Dansky tells us about his latest review:
Returning to the world of a much-beloved story doesn’t always work; George Lucas can tell us all about that. Any revisiting, especially one done after a long hiatus from that world, runs multiple risks. It can come across as a cheap nostalgia play, lacking the inspiration of the original. Alternately, the author’s style and approach may have changed so much over the intervening years that the new material doesn’t feel like the old stuff, creating dissonance and distance in the fictional space. And sometimes there just isn’t another story to tell that lives up to the first one, and the lesser light of the return diminishes the affection felt for the original.
Then again, every so often it works out. Case in point: Tim Powers’ Nobody’s Home, a novella that serves as a punchy return to the ghost-riddled London of The Anubis Gates.
You can read the full review here.
