Salvage and Demolition

from kimberwolf

A strong novella from Tim Powers involving sumerian myth, time travel, and a love story. Richard Blanzac, a rare books dealer, receives a new lot of books that contains a manuscript by a little-known beat poet from the late 1950s. The manuscript has some mystical properties and Richard finds the ...

from quondame

A huge amount of story in a short book, with a wonderfully twisted time travel plot to assure both the salvage and the demolition.

from bespen

Salvage and Demolition by Tim Powers Subterranean Books, 2013 $30.00; 155 pages ISBN 978-1-59606-515-4 Tim Powers has been one of my favorite authors for over a decade, and this novella is full of the reasons why. A good time travel book is hard to write, but I think Powers has nailed it. Again. ...

from KateSherrod

Broke my heart and, a little bit, my brain!

from ScoLgo

A tightly woven time travel short story. Bouncing back & forth between present day and the 1950's, Powers takes a meta approach by inserting the same character into the timeline at varying intervals. It's similar in approach to Back to the Future II, where Marty McFly is running around doing stuf...