Forced Perspectives

by Tim Powers

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Series: Vickery and Castine (2)

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"Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh's Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles - from Satanic indie movies of the '60s, to the unqiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro . . . pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the creation of a new and predatory World God"--… (more)

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The action is smooth and continuous, the characters somewhat interesting but not quite compelling, and the plot usually baroque and otherworldly. Tim Powers has often moved his characters through a Los Angeles that feels so real to me I'm riding shotgun or smelling the hill cover. Not this one, where it becomes a list of street names and freeway numbers, mostly familiar, but not necessarily evocative. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Tim Powers	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Burn, Adam	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Russo, Carol	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Forced Perspectives

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Sebastian Vickery

Ingrid Castine

Lateef Fakhouri

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Los Angeles, California, USA

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, Santa Barbara County, California, USA

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Dedication

To my wife, Serena

With thanks to: Tony Daniel, J.R. Dunn, Ken Estes, Russell Galen, Tom Gilchrist, Becca and Mike Rottiers, Bill Schafer, Joe Stefko, Toni Weisskopf, Bill and Peggy Wu, and Michael and Laura Yanovich

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“It was on the south wall of the Pharaoh’s city.”

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Card, Orson Scott

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"Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh's Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles - from Satanic indie movies of the '60s, to the unqiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro . . . pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the creation of a new and predatory World God"--

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