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William Ashbless

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born

The United Kingdom

genre

Poetry

influences

Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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William Ashbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and Tim Powers.

Ashbless is best known in his incarnation as a 19th century poet, in which guise he appears in Powers' The Anubis Gates (1983) and as a lesser character in Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan (1984). Neither author was aware that the other's novel contained a William Ashbless until the coincidence was noticed by the editor responsible for both books, who suggested that the two consult one another so that their references would be consistent.

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Books by William Ashbless

Average rating: 3.75 · 53 ratings · 4 reviews · 4 distinct works

	On Pirates by William Ashbless (fictional author), Tim Powers, James P. Blaylock 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Pilot Light by William Ashbless (fictional author), James P. Blaylock, Tim Powers 3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook by William Ashbless (fictional author), Tim Powers, James P. Blaylock 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Powers: Secret Histories by John Berlyne (Editor), William Ashbless (Contributor), James P. Blaylock (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating: