In the afterword, Powers describes the rules he held himself to:
Earlier novels of his tackled the 1683 Siege of Vienna ( The Drawing of the Dark) and the Golden Age of Piracy ( On Stranger Tides). Powers has used this format before to good effect. By which I mean, an astonishing amount of the novel actually did occur- the biographies of infamous Cold Warriors are skillfully interwoven into the supernatural thriller the actual politics of the early Soviet Union impact the plot as much as magic does.
That is, nothing except this weird and highly engaging 2001 novel by Tim Powers.ĭeclare is a blend of genres as described above, and it is formatted as a secret history. What do the spy fiction of John le Carré, the Cthulhu Mythos, and ancient Arab/Sumerian folklore have in common? Almost nothing. “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.”
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