| Re: What does Tim Powers write about?
Gosh, what DOESN'T Tim Powers write about? Lately he seems to have been concentrating on urban fantasy, but "On Stranger Tides" is about pirates, and "The Stress of Her Regard" takes place in the early nineteenth century and features the poets Shelley and Byron as characters, and "The Drawing of the Dark," which I read a long time ago and don't remember perfectly well, took place in a medieval (or was it Renaissance?) city under seige.
But while Powers's style is very straight-forward and not at all flowery, I would say that his books are, increasingly, both detailed and dense. He does alternate the descriptive passages with a lot of action, though. |