Okay, two entries in the writers category - sure to bring Popow out of the woodwork again <g>
Tim Powers :
http://www.amazon.com/Tim-Powers/e/B000APYVZ0/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1The Anubis Gates
Declare
The Drawing of the Dark
Last Call
Charles Stross ( especially Atrocity Archives )
>We probably all have them. Writers, singers, actors, directors, etc. who are close to our hearts but who are not universally beloved. Sometimes actively disliked, in fact. We like them anyway and maybe even become more loyal in the face of opposition.
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
