15 Works in Declare - Tim Powers
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When the Soviets get impatient and decide to try and sacrifice you to the djinn, regardless of how much it would psychologically destroy you on an existential level... what you gonna do? Whatever it is, it involves a knife, a fox that isn't a fox, and Guy fucking Burgess.
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Inspired by DECLARE and Sir Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitai Lampada" (the one that starts "There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight ...")
I've always loved the threads of poetry running through Tim Powers' work, and this is a very small homage to that.
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Perhaps the most stereotypical British habit is to talk endlessly about the weather, though in this case the weather is certainly worth discussing.
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A Second Night in Winter by vials
Fandoms: The Moscow Trilogy - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Declare - Tim Powers
27 Jun 2018
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Of all people, Andrei and Serafima should know what could happen in a night, but then again they should also both know that there's always much more going on than meets the eye.
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Elena's meeting with Kim Philby wasn't as discreet as they'd both hoped it would be. Now she finds herself forced to answer for why she was seen talking to one of the Soviet's most valuable agents, and her silence won't be taken for an answer.
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The inexplicable has been consistent all throughout Kim's life. Each of his four wives brushed against it, and no two of them ever responded in the same way. For Kim, it's all an exhausting balancing act.
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on injuries that didn't properly heal
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- English
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A freak storm traps Elena and Andrew in a temporary shelter, where they quickly realise that what has them cornered is not just bad weather.
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Elena resigned herself when the worst happened and Marcel was taken; she had not thought of what she would do when he returned.
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Philby spends a night in Elliott's office, and not by choice.
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Nothing about Guy's arrival is unexpected, but a sense of dread grips Kim from the moment he sees him.
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Elena brings home the lone survivor of a shell that landed too near his car. After all, she can't just leave him.
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It was possession; the act of wanting, and taking.
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On their return from Mount Ararat, Philby stops in Dogubayezit to let Hale see Elena. She isn't there, of course, but Philby isn't satisfied with that.
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Victoria and The Rescue by glinda4thegood
Fandoms: Red 2010, Red 2012, Slow Horses - Mick Herron, Philip McAlpine - Adam Diment, Declare - Tim Powers
29 Oct 2014
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I luuuuve these characters. "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time." – Proust
Series
- Part 7 of Victoria Winslow/Ivan Simanov Series