New Tim Powers book!

The new Tim Powers book is out! Three Days to Never, and it just got released like yesterday. I discovered this fact when I saw an ad on Amazon.com. Didn’t even realize it was a Powers book; I just saw a bit of description: “...the mummified head of an Einstein clone is helping a secret sect...” and who could resist following up on that?

Anyway, I bought it in hardcover, even though I’ve got a general policy against reading hardcovers. (And crap, I’d’ve saved $12 ordering it from Amazon. But then I’d’ve had to wait till late next week to read it.) And even though the back carries this astonishingly off-putting blurb:

“Three Days to Never is a hurricane blowing away the stale postmodern sensibility of most fiction. Because Powers knows that science poses its questions in search of a predetermined answer, this book is a swift, colorful pursuit of the truth visible only to those with humility and a sense of wonder.” — Dean Koontz

I’ve never read anything by Koontz, and after that I’m not likely to. I wonder if he knows anything about either postmodernism or science.