Michael Rawdon rated Man in the empty suit: 2 stars

Man in the empty suit by Sean Ferrell
Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own one-hundredth birthday celebration …
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Clever idea, and Scalzi has a lot of fun with it. His witty narrative and lively adventure keep things moving along, and the self-aware meta textual nature of the story is quite effective. Falls a bit short of my hopes in its exploration of the premise, as opposed to the ramifications thereof. The codas are moving, though.
Not one of Powers' best books, it's a story of various people in 19th century London haunted by ghostly figures referred to sometimes as vampires, but largely unrelated to the ones we know. The rules surrounding the creatures and how they're dealt with or worked around are hazy at best, and the eventual climax isn't very satisfying. It's sort of a sequel to The a Stress of Her Regard, and if you enjoyed that one then you'll probably like this one (I don't rank Stress among his best, either). But as a fan of his more tightly-plotted novels, I don't think this one measures up.

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