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Dude has himself killed so he can go kill the guy who killed his fantasy love again.

Subterranean Press, 2016, 120 pages

What do you do if the man you've vowed to kill dies before you can kill him?

In college, Tom Holbrook worshipped Shasta DiMaio from afar, but she married the arrogant John Atwater—and Atwater eventually murdered her.

All that's left for Tom is revenge. He has devoted the rest of his life to finding Atwater and killing him—but when he finally finds him, Atwater is in a bag in the Los Angeles County morgue.

How do you kill a man who has already died?

( An obsessive orbiter can't let go. )

Also by Tim Powers: My review of The Anubis Gates.

My complete list of book reviews.

A sprawling alternate history time-travel story that helped spawn the Steampunk fad.

Ace, 1983, 387 pages

When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But Brendan could do without being stranded penniless in the teeming, thieving London of 1810.

Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have assembled such an insane cast of characters: an ancient Egyptian sorcerer; a modern millionaire; a body-switching werewolf; a hideously deformed clown; a young woman disguised as a boy; a brainwashed Lord Byron; and our hero, Brendan Doyle. The Anubis Gates took the fantasy world by storm decades ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award winner all over again.

( Time travelers, werewolves, and Victorian London. )

My complete list of book reviews.