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  <name><![CDATA[William Ashbless]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;William Ashbless&lt;/b&gt; is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers [author:James Blaylock|86475] and [author:Tim Powers|8835].

Ashbless is best known in his incarnation as a 19th century poet, in which guise he appears in Powers' [book:The Anubis Gates|142296] (1983) and as a lesser character in Blaylock's [book:The Digging Leviathan|149570] (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.

&lt;i&gt;Excerpted from &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ashbless&quot;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Tim Powers, James Blaylock,  Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]></influences>          
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[On Pirates]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Ashbless]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tim Powers]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James P. Blaylock]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="496018">
  <title><![CDATA[The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Ashbless]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tim Powers]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/582972]]></link>
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      <name><![CDATA[James P. Blaylock]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Powers: Secret Histories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Ashbless]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[William Ashbless]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Bierer]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[James P. Blaylock]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Joy Fowler]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dean Koontz]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[China Miéville]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tim Powers]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
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