[spyone]

You recommended this months ago. No book store had it. Now have a kindle so I will get them tonight....anything else?

[Cicero]

Actually, I haven’t been keeping up with Tim Powers, I find. I just checked him on Amazon and found several more I haven’t read.

Also, with some of the out-of-print ones you can often find them on Amazon as used books from their associate dealers. That means paying postage, but if the price is low enough it can be worth while.

I just got a copy of a David Drake fantasy called “Old Nathan,” based on the stories of Manley Wade Wellman, which I used to read, I think, in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s fantasy folk tales set in the back woods of the south (Drake’s hero can talk to animals, and has amusing conversations with the mule he rides). David Drake usually does military SF, but I recently came across a story from this book and enjoyed it, so I’m looking forward to reading the rest of it.

And if you can still find any Manley Wade Wellman, that’s worth while, too. He was a contemporary of Robert Heinlein.