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The Bible Technician is Tim Powers's first brand-new selection since Unusual Itineraries seemed in 2005, and it's really worth the delay. In five tales and an ambitious famous novella, it provides one case after another of the writer's humor, ingenuity, and sheer inventive reach.The name tale takes us in to the life of the guy with a most uncommon occupation, one that promises a bit of his spirit with every deal. ` Parallel Lives' and 'A Soul in a Bottle' are thematically connected ghost tales in which their influence to be exerted by the dead attempt, with varying degrees of success, upon the living. In 'The Hour of Babel,' an assortment of broken people expertise, once again, the inexplicable encounter that altered their lives more than thirty years before, while in 'A Trip of Only Two Paces' a basic legal process is changed into a nightmarish Kabbalistic ritual.But the true centerpiece of this resonant selection is the novella 'A Time to Cast Away Stones,' formerly accessible only in a very restricted--and very expensive--edition.