{"id":2479,"date":"2009-06-02T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2009-06-01T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:10:05","slug":"annotated-tim-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Tim Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/powers-139x150.jpg\" alt=\"Powers\" title=\"Powers\" width=\"139\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Powers-Secret-Histories-Bibliography-Berlyne\/dp\/1848630131\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1243861191&#038;sr=1-1\">Secret Histories<\/a> is a huge 600-page annotated bibliography of the work of Tim Powers, whose great talent is weaving plausible fiction into the interstices of historical fact.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher has made a large chunk of the book available for free download.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re so proud of Secret Histories that we want everyone to know what it&#8217;s like. So we&#8217;ve made up a 24-page high resolution sampler PDF file that you can download for free.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a chunk of the bibliography section that lists every edition of Powers&#8217; seminal The Anubis Gates, as well as China Mieville&#8217;s tribute to the novel, examples of Dick Berger&#8217;s exclusive artwork, excerpts and notes and doodles by Powers himself, and much more &#8211; and it still represents just a fraction of what the book itself contains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to the single-volume book, they&#8217;re also making some other special editions available for the die-hard fan: One which includes an 80-page unfinished novel bound separately and another which includes the novel <em>and<\/em> a bound facsimile of the manuscript for <i>The Anubis Gates<\/i>, complete with doodles and marginalia.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.pspublishing.co.uk\/2009\/05\/29\/free-sample-excerpt-from-secret-histories\/\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Histories is a huge 600-page annotated bibliography of the work of Tim Powers, whose great talent is weaving plausible fiction into the interstices of historical fact. The publisher has made a large chunk of the book available for free download. We&#8217;re so proud of Secret Histories that we want everyone to know what it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}