Dinner at Deviant’s Palace (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Tim Powers
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: More than a century after the holocaust; about 2100
- Setting: Los Angeles, California, and environs
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Future, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Cults, Violins or violinists, Vampires
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The Plot
More than a century after a global thermonuclear war, Gregorio Rivas makes his living in post-apocalypse Los Angeles as a violinist with a regular nightclub act. In his youth, Rivas had been seduced by the cult of Norton Jaybush, whose worshipers are called Jaybirds. Later, he became a redeemer, rescuing cult members for a price. He is now living on his fading reputation and looking forward with growing fear to an impoverished middle age. Fate pulls him back into the dangerous life of a redeemer when Irwin Barrows, father of Rivas’ one-time sweetheart, Urania, asks...
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