Dinner at Deviant's Palace

by Tim Powers

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Pub Date Jul 30 2013 | Archive Date Apr 10 2014

Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media

Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cult

In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official’s daughter and Gregorio’s first love, from Jaybush’s sinister clutches. To do so, the redeemer reborn must face blood-sucking hemogoblins and other monstrosities on his way to discovering the ultimate secrets of this neo-Californian civilization.
One of the most ingeniously imaginative writers of our time, Tim Powers dazzles in an early work that displays his unique creative genius. Alive with wit, intelligence, and wild invention, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace is a mad adventure across a dystopian future as only Tim Powers could have imagined it.

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Advance Praise

“Tim Powers has long been one of my absolute favorite writers.” —Peter Straub

“A typical Powers novel—if anything the man writes can be called typical—combines supernatural melodrama with scrupulous research, seamlessly intertwining the real and the fantastic. . . . He has produced some of the most memorable imaginative fiction of recent decades.” —The Washington Post

“Legendary and still distinctive . . . refreshing . . . [Powers’s] engaging conceptions will keep most readers turning the pages.” —Publishers Weekly

“Tim Powers has long been one of my absolute favorite writers.” —Peter Straub

“A typical Powers novel—if anything the man writes can be called typical—combines supernatural melodrama with...

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About the Author: Tim Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.