Tim Powers Interview

Friend of the blog Aaron Irber invited me on his podcast I Might Believe in Faeries to talk about Tim Power’s masterful time-travel novel The Anubis Gates. I spoke with Aaron and his patrons for an hour an a half in a wide-ranging discussion on Powers’ use of symbolism,

This is the first installment of what I hope to make a regular feature here at With Both Hands, a reflection on a key work of fiction that I find myself returning to again and again that I will call With Both Hands Classics. For this inaugural edition, let’s

Via Castalia House’s Sensor Sweep, here is a great blog post at Tentaclii listing some well-known authors who credit Rudyard Kipling as being an inspiration to the science fiction in general and them in particular. Despite being a very low stakes story, Kipling’s With the Night Mail is