Stolen Skies
by Tim Powers
Stolen Skies by Tim Powers is the third Sebastian Vickery/Ingrid Castine novel. The duo is thrown together once again to deal with UFO sightings—real and government invented—at Giant Rock in Landers California, an actual location known to be a beacon for UFO sightings and even landings. Vickery and Castine have no choice but to try to derail a UFO landing which will bring devastating effects in its wake.
Tim Powers uses real locations with bizarre histories to weave his fiction. His use of Giant Rock and its history is an example of embellishing the bizarre, twisting the twisted, and tying it all together with actual facts.
Paranormal investigators Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine, a pair of well-matched misfits last encountered in Forced Perspectives, are back in L. A. to stave off an extraterrestrial apocalypse in this dimension-bending thriller. When real saucers show up, and Russian agents take out the navy security specialists, Castine and Vickery are back on the run together, dodging spies from both sides while gathering allies among flat-earthers and chess-playing cultists waiting for the saucers to arrive. Powers mixes ESP and espionage with history and folklore, layering in backstory and internal monologue.
The fate of the world hangs in the balance as they decrypt clues, evade magical tracking, and occasionally stop for tacos or a microwave meal. Stolen Skies mashes sf with the supernatural in a familiar setting.
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Stolen Skies by Tim Powers is the third Sebastian Vickery/Ingrid Castine novel. The duo is thrown together once again to deal with UFO sightings—real and government invented—at Giant Rock in Landers California, an actual location known to be a beacon for UFO sightings and even landings. Vickery and Castine have no choice but to try to derail a UFO landing which will bring devastating effects in its wake. Tim Powers uses real locations with bizarre histories to weave his fiction. His use of Giant Rock and its history is an example of embellishing the bizarre, twisting the twisted, and tying it all together with actual facts. Paranormal investigators Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine, a pair of well-matched misfits last encountered in Forced Perspectives, are back in L. A. to stave off an extraterrestrial apocalypse in this dimension-bending thriller. When real saucers show up, and Russian agents take out the navy security specialists, Castine and Vickery are back on the run together, dodging spies from both sides while gathering allies among flat-earthers and chess-playing cultists waiting for the saucers to arrive. Powers mixes ESP and espionage with history and folklore, layering in backstory and internal monologue. The fate of the world hangs in the balance as they decrypt clues, evade magical tracking, and occasionally stop for tacos or a microwave meal. Stolen Skies mashes sf with the supernatural in a familiar setting.