Book description
Two thousand years ago there lived a man who sold some valuable
information for a fee of thirty silver coins. Is name was Judas
Iscariot, and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still exist -
and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them Like Andrew,
whose attempts at innkeeping bring in stranger business than he ever
expected. And Aunt Naomi, whose most prized family heirloom is a silver
spoon - with a curiously ancient-looking engraving. And especially old
Mr Pennyman, who is only five silver coins short of immortality...
James P. Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California, in 1950, and
attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was
befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries
K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded - along with Powers and
Jeter - as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner
of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is currently
director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High
School of the Arts, where Tim Powers is Writer in Residence.
