Anubis Gates is one of my favorite books of all time (time-travel! ancient Egyptian sorcerers! guilds of thieves! spoon-sized boys?! Lord Byron?!?) but it's a bit too, to employ a literary term, wacky for the uninitiated.
IMHO, if you want a nice introduction to the zany brilliance that is Tim Powers, I'd push On Stranger Tides. It's got pirates, for one thing, and I think its a ...breezier read than Last Call
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IMHO, if you want a nice introduction to the zany brilliance that is Tim Powers, I'd push On Stranger Tides. It's got pirates, for one thing, and I think its a ...breezier read than Last Call