Esta novela de [a:Tim Powers|8835|Tim Powers|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1373471978p2/8835.jpg] me ha dejado un poco frío. Es bastante original respecto al futuro distópico creado, en el que la religión y sus poderes terrenales y “no terrenales” cobran otra dimensión. Pero se hace confusa y lenta a ratos, compensando con algunos momentos tensos en el que el protagonista lo pasa bastante mal.

De nuevo el alcohol tiene su papel protagonista en la novela de Powers pues, ni más ni menos, ¡es la moneda de este futuro distópico! Parece que ponerte tibio tendrá más importancia próximamente que comer, hidratarse o tener un hogar. Powers está obsesionado, de verdad…

Estamos ante una aventura de viaje, en el que al protagonista le encargan traer de vuelta a una antigua amiga suya que ha caído en las garras del radical culto que lidera Norton Jaybush. La misión más peligrosa a la que se ha enfrentado un redentor como Greg Rivas, profesión de la que se había retirado para dedicarse a la música.

Powers trabaja bien la novela, aunque quizá se alargan algunas escenas y otras parecen quedarse cortas.

This is my second time through this one, but I absolutely don't remember much of it. Powers is one of my favorite authors. This Last Call is on my list of best fantasy novels of all time. This one is quite a ride. Directions change and there is absolutely no way you'll ever figure out where it's going. Hang on and enjoy the dinner theater at Deviant's Palace.

I just didn’t find this book to be much of anything. It wasn’t thrilling, it wasn’t suspenseful, it wasn’t funny. I didn’t have her become invested in any character, didn’t care about the outcome. It was an interesting concept but executing left a lot to be desired for me.

Gregorio Rivas used to be the best redemptionist in the business but now he's just a pelican gunner in a band in Ellay. At least, he was until the Distiller of the Treasury shows up and sends him on a mission: to rescue his daughter from the Jaybirds. Is Rivas still up to the task and can he keep from becoming one of Norton Jaybush's followers?

Tim Powers' books are always full of crazy ideas but this one takes the taco. Dinner At Deviant's Palace is a post-apocalyptic story with a level of weirdness that only Tim Powers can deliver. Brandy is used as currency. Bloodsucking monsters called hemogoblins are on the loose. The new Messiah is a rotund madman named Norton Jaybush and his crazed followers are the Jaybirds. Jaybush's sacrament is a weird psychic pulse that gradually erodes the mind of the Jaybird who receives it. There's also a street drug called Blood that is mysteriously similar to the sacrament. I said this was weird, right?

Gregorio Rivas goes from being a selfish musician to being something of a hero and has his ass repeatedly handed to him in the process. Powers never seems very sympathetic to his leads and Rivas is no exception.

Part of the fun of Dinner At Deviant's Palace is trying to decode what landmarks and cities in California Powers was referring to. Ellay is obviously Los Angeles, for instance.

I'd recommend this to all Tim Powers fans and also fans of post-apocalyptic fiction. Rivas isn't as tough as Snake Plissken but he gets the job done.

Early novel by fantasy grandmaster Tim Powers

I think Tim Powers must have been spending a lot of time with K.W. Jeter when he wrote this.

Nutty dystopian trippy icky nonsense fun with just enough pretentiousness to seem like it's about something.

The story and the writing are great, but the characters are quite bland. Basically only Rivas, the protagonist is properly fleshed out.

Struggled to start, really enjoyed the character towards the end. Best space vampire cult post apocalyptic tale I’ve read. Should know by now to trust Tim Powers.

All the wonderful weirdness that we expect from Tim Powers. If it had less impact on me than his other works, it is because this one's imaginative post-apocalyptic setting is a bit more removed from real life (I hope!). Still, it was very engaging and I greatly enjoyed reading it.

Post-apocalyptic dystopia from the mid 1980s. Twisted, creative, predictable in some ways and totally unpredictable in others.