Medusa's Web: Tim Powers is the Philip K Dick of our age

Oh right - lemme add:

For everyone who likes Tim Powers, I’d also highly recommend James Blaylock, some of whose novels are in a very similar vein but often lighter and funnier. They even have shared a fictional character, William Ashbless, a minor romantic poet. (Not all of Blaylock’s novels are in the vein of Powers’ main novels, so YMMV.)

A couple of my favorite Blaylock books are The Paper Grail - imagine a Tim Powers supernatural conspiracy novel with a little dash of Big Trouble in Little China stirred in - and The Last Coin.

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