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Original Title:	The Drawing of the Dark
ISBN:	0575074264 (ISBN13: 9780575074262)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1980), Balrog Award Nominee for Best Novel (1980)

The Drawing of the Dark

Tim Powers

Paperback | Pages: 336 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 4410 Users | 303 Reviews

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Title	:	The Drawing of the Dark
Author	:	Tim Powers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 336 pages
Published	:	November 14th 2002 by Gollancz Paperbacks (first published June 1979)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Historical Fantasy

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Tim Powers is a mad genius.

The siege of Vienna, Vikings, and the Fisher King. Oh, and Merlin, of course. I'm tired, and lazy as hell, so that's about all the plot summary I can muster. On one level this is a book about beer, as might be inferred (playfully) from the title. It's the secret history of what the Ottomans were really after when they marched on Vienna, and a forgotten chapter of Arthurian Legend.

This is one of Powers's early novels, and I found it a little more concise than some of his later works. The later books sometimes get a teensy bit saggy or unfocused in the middle (I say that as an ardent fan). Having read most of his work in random order, rather than the order in which it was written, I enjoyed coming to this late because it meant I could watch his first explorations of certain ideas that have become important recurring themes in his later work. The Fisher King, in particular, reappears in several of his other works, including (most notably) Last Call and Earthquake Weather. I think I might have also spotted an embryonic form of the "Jacks" from Last Call.

In Powers's later works, the Fisher King loses some of the more overt trappings of Arthuriana, and becomes a more unique Powers construct. His sense of magic becomes much more refined and subtle with each book, but the seeds of his characteristic style are all here. (I say it all the time, but seriously: if magic were real, it would work like it does in a Tim Powers novel.)

One of the things I enjoy most about Powers's secret histories is that I always come away wondering just which parts were fictional and which parts really happened. Did a Viking longship really show up on the Danube just before the Siege of Vienna? I'm not sure, but if Powers says so, I'm willing to buy it.

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It's a book about beer. I don't think I've read a book where the characters are sitting around and quaffing their favorite brews as much as in this one. The title itself refers to the dark beer that was first created thousands of years ago. So a good reason for 5 stars right there! But, of course, this book is about a lot more than beer. It's about an historical event which occurred in 1529--the Siege of Vienna by the Turks (the Ottoman Empire). The Turks (who had conquered Constantinople in

I enjoyed "The Drawing of the Dark" but also have to declare a slight disappointment. I chose the book because of "Declare" (see what I did there?) which, I have to admit, has spoilt reading other books for me - will I ever find another book as brilliant? Well, I hoped that "The Drawing of the Dark" would be as dramatic, as thrilling, as all-enveloping... It wasn't. It was entertaining, humorous quite often and occasionally enthralling... but it wasn't "Declare". I've been ruined!Our hero,



I read this book years ago ('79 or 80 I believe)...and forgot about it till it was resurrected as a "lost fantasy classic", which I agree it is. This one predates the glut of Arthurian pastiches, adaptions and outright rip-offs that got so popular for a while. Here we start with the story of a 14th century "soldier of fortune" com adventurer who's traveled and been a rogue and mercenary (among other things), Brian Duffy. Faced with what might be termed "an affair of honor" (facing 3 men) he

Tim Powers' first novel is much more accessible than the award-winning but dense and more-than-a-little-confusing ANUBIS GATES. In the odd final act tho, Powers undoes virtually everything he sets up in the first two-thirds of the book, which leads to a flat and unsatisfying ending.

When I was home for Christmas I saw this on the shelf and couldn't help but pick it up and read it. Cost me some sleep even though I was already exhausted. I missed an entire night of sleep reading it. As with anything written by Tim Powers, it's worth your time.Fair warning, if you're looking for a driving plot, this might not be the book for you. But if you enjoy mystery and unique worldbuilding, you're in for a treat....

Man, they wrote them dense, back in the day. There's a lot I enjoyed here--in particular, Brian's disgruntled, determined ignorance in the face of the supernatural--but not quite enough for me to love. The racial politics of the inscrutable Evil Muslim East battling the Good West in a literal clash of civilizations made me raise an eyebrow a bit. And the side plot with the protagonist's love interest was, uh, well, that was a thing that happened. Yep.