Dinner at Deviant's Palace

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Justin Price

A Philip K. Dick Award Winner from "a brilliant writer": In a ravaged California, a man tries to rescue his lost love from a soul-devouring religious cult (William Gibson).

In 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, earning him a nomination for the Nebula Award. 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.

©1985 Tim Powers (P)1985 Tantor Media

Great , creative take on dystopian world.

Really classic Tim Powers. Very much in the catalog of Philip K Dick. I wish there was a book 2 as I’d love to know what happens next!

Creative take on a classic tale

Had I not known this was an Orpheus myth retelling, I wonder if I would have put that together. That being said, I love when Powers did with it.

The world building in this story is inventive, though not always fun. This story has a dark under current and just when you forget it, it reminds you.

I think people who love inventive post apocalyptic stories should definitely give this one a read.