The Drawing of the Dark
TOO MANY LEGENDS
Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune,
had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself
Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as
bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brewed. That
was clear enough.
But why was he guided and guarded on the trip by
creatures from the ancient legends? Why should he be attacked by ifrits
and saved by mythical dwarfs? What was so important about the
Herzwesten beer to the Fisher King — whoever he was? Why was Duffy
plagued by visions of a sword and an arm rising from a lake? And what
had a bunch of drunken, ancient Vikings to do with it all?
Then there was no time for speculation as Vienna was
besieged by the Turkish armies of Suleiman. Duffy found himself drawn
into a war of desperation and magic. It was up to him to preserve the
West until the drawing of the Dark.
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Tim Powers
Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K. Dick award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the Steampunk genre. Powers won the Dick award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace.
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