Lord Samper's Library

‘The Way Down The Hill’ can be found in the collection ‘Strange Itineraries’ (Tachyon Press).  I was pretty shattered, after a sprint through the last hundred or so pages of ‘Empire of Grass’, so fancied something a little shorter but hopefully just as sweet. Luckily for me, I’d already re-discovered my Tim Powers collection and decided that it was time for me to dive back in and have another read. This is going to be a short post by the way, mostly because ‘The Way Down The Hill’ is a very short read but also because it has been a long day and I’m just about done… So then, how did I find ‘The Way Down The Hill’…? ‘ The Way Down The Hill’ is 'The Eternals' writ on a much smaller scale but somehow all the better for it. With the characters more 'present' for the reader; the mysteries become that much more engaging as the players are right there with you not separated by their lack of humanity. It's a simple yet very effective tool to get people on board, it didn...

It's going to be another fairly short post today I'm afraid... This is mostly because of work, child-care and Christmas all coming together, in a big mob of 'priorities', and insisting that I dealt with them before I did anything else. Which leaves me not very long to post something today ;o) The other reason? Well, we'll get to that in a minute. Before anything else though, I can now finally say that I've actually read something by Tim Powers! After years of trying to get into his novels (and failing, and feeling like I was the only one who 'didn't get it'), all it took was one short story and I can now see what the fuss was all about. Kind of... I'm getting ahead of myself again. Having no prior experience of Tim Powers (apart from several of his books, unread on various TBR piles), I thought I'd start at the beginning of 'Strange Itineraries' and see where the journey took me. I'm still not sure where it took me but the journe...