The Very Secret Diaries of Tim Powers

I spent a couple of hours last night with my latest acquisition: Powers: Secret Histories (A Bibliography), compiled and edited by John Berlyne. I'm a big fan of the works of Tim Powers (he ranks up there with Gene Wolfe and a few others as practitioners of "modern fantasy"), but I'm no where near a fanatic collector as Berlyne!

The book is worth it if you collect the works of Powers (I've missed more than a few chapbooks, alas). It is worth it to see his sketches (his style resembles that of Mervyn Peake). It is worth it for the various essays.

And it is worth it for the biting commentary of one "William Ashbless". Live or Memorex? I won't tell.