SUPERNATURAL ADVENTURE FROM A MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY
RESURRECT THE DEAD KING OF THE WEST!
The magical King of the West has been killed in California, and his
assassin is one of the multiple personalities in the head of Janis
Cordelia Plumtree--but which one? Sid Cochran is a one-time winemaker
who blames his wife's suicide on the wine god Dionysus, and believes
that Dionysus is now pursuing him.
Janis and Sid escape together from a mental hospital in Los Angeles
and--pursued by ghosts, gangsters, and a crazy psychiatrist--set out for
San Francisco and the wine country to try to restore the dead King of
the West to life. The god Dionysus himself is a player in this perilous
game--and not on their side. But when the spirits flow and even the gods
lose all inhibition, you have to save the world just to survive!
About Tim Powers:
"Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without
slowing down the tale. . . . [He] promises marvels and horrors, and
delivers them all."--Orson Scott Card
"Other writers tell tales of magic in the twentieth century, but no one
does it like Powers."--The Orlando Sentinel
". . . immensely clever stuff. . . . Powers' prose is often vivid and
arresting . . . All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction
continues to grow stronger."--Washington Post Book World
"Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material
into narrative form."--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"On Stranger Tides . . . immediately hooks you and drags you along in
sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the
Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so
determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."--David
Langford
"On Stranger Tides . . . was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If
you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were
-plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the
game. . . . [The book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting . .
."--legendary game designer Ron Gilbert
"Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots,
and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural."--Los
Angeles Times Book Review
"[Powers' work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or
realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny
. . . and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a
merciless turning of supernatural wheels. . . . Powers' descriptions . .
. are breathtaking, sublimely precise . . . his status as one of
fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt."--SF Site
*"*Powers creates a mystical, magical otherworld superimposed on our own
and takes us on a marvelous, guided tour of his vision."--Science
Fiction Chronicle
"The fantasy novels of Tim Powers are nothing if not ambitious. . . .
Meticulously researched and intellectually adventurous, his novels
rarely fail to be strange and wholly original."--San Francisco
Chronicle
