num_pages: 219
description: Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cultIn the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official’s daughter and Gregorio’s first love, from Jaybush’s sinister clutches. To do so, the redeemer reborn must face blood-sucking hemogoblins and other monstrosities on his way to discovering the ultimate secrets of this neo-Californian civilization. One of the most ingeniously imaginative writers of our time, Tim Powers dazzles in an early work that displays his unique creative genius. Alive with wit, intelligence, and wild invention, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace is a mad adventure across a dystopian future as only Tim Powers could have imagined it.
language: English
title: Dinner at Deviant's Palace
titlecomplete: Dinner at Deviant's Palace
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, 20th Century, Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1835
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Subterranean Press