Alternate Routes by Tim PowersMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Review: ALTERNATE ROUTES by Tim Powers
There is no author equivalent to Tim Powers. Mr. Powers and John Connolly are the two authors I consistently count on to "take me away," to transport me to a realm at first seemingly like ours, but a realm undergirded and overtoned by a truly magical realism (surrealism) in which anything can happen and rules never apply.
In ALTERNATE ROUTES (the subtitle reads "The Ghosts of the Freeway are Rising"), L.A. exists side by side with a bizarre form of Afterlife, and both dimensions increasingly bleed through. Twisting the natural laws of physics, ghosts in the Afterlife can communicate, and a secret Federal agency, the Transportation Utility Agency, has charge of those communications. It's L.A. head has a specific agenda, and if he succeeds, the Other dimension will expand and consume L.A...and beyond.
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