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The Governor and Other Stories

(2027)
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An Anthology of Stories as only Tim Powers fantasy grandmaster can provide!

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.





                    Genre: Urban Fantasy

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