Kage Baker Praises Tim Powers’s ON STRANGER TIDES
This just in, from Kage Baker’s review of Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides, in Green Man Review: “The intricacies of handling a sailing ship are carefully and accurately represented, clearly well-researched. The supernatural elements in the story work exceptionally well. Powers is brilliant at describing consistent, plausible systems of magic, and pays close attention to folklore. As with any of his books, the pages are crammed with neat concepts, dazzling invention, secret history, exotic locales. It’s no wonder this book is a modern classic: after all, Powers revived and reinvented a genre defunct since Sabatini’s day.”