![]() Powers's quirky, poetic style is well up to the task of sharing this quotidian necromancy with the reader: "He seemed to catch the tang of fresh blood and stale beer on the taste buds of the broken asphalt, and cramp with the hopeless wonder and unknown withdrawals in the mazes of cracked plaster and parking garages and electric rainbows in glass on street corners, and shiver with the grinding of fast, shallow panting, or of some subterranean gnawing, that invisibly agitated all the pavements." These are not the musings of a Ginsberg or Ferlinghetti, but of a boy in his mid teens with the unlikely monicker of Koot Hootie Parganas. Strange Powers WORLD FANTASY Award-winner Tim Powers returns with a work of tatterdemalion brilliance in Earthquake Weather (Tor, $24.95), a wild tale of our society's disenfranchised people - the homeless, schizophrenic, crippled, even dead - who turn out to possess magical abilities, and who pursue momentous dreams and perform miracles right under our noses every day. ![]()
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