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Forced Perspectives

Vickery and Castine #2 / 4
by Tim Powers
Forced Perspectives (Vickery and Castine #2) by Tim Powers
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A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HAUNTED LOS ANGELES

Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh’s Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923?

Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles — from Satanic indie movies of the ‘60s, to the unqiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro... pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the creation of a new and predatory World God.

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FantasyUrban Fantasy
Release date: March 3, 2020

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Tim Powers

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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Many of his novels, such as Last Call, and Alternate Routes, are so-called “secret histories,” which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the story in weird and compelling manners.

Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton, where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims “stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer’s conscious assistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconscious worry about my themes.”

Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.

Photo: Beny Shlevich

Vickery and Castine

Vickery and Castine consists of three books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Alternate Routes (Vickery and Castine #1)
Unrated
Forced Perspectives (Vickery and Castine #2)
Unrated
Stolen Skies (Vickery and Castine #3)
⧗ 9.00 / 1
Vickery and Castine Book 4 (Vickery and Castine #4)
⧗ 8.00 / 1


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