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(b.Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchiseinstallment Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K. Dick award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the Steampunk genre. Powers won the Dick award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant's Palace. Many of his novels, such asLast Call, and Alternate Routes, upcoming from Baen Books, are so-called "secret histories," which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the story in weird and compelling manners. Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton, where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims "stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writer's actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer's conscious assistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconscious worry about my themes." Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.
Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
New Books
Series
Anubis Gates
1. The Anubis Gates (1983)
2. Nobody's Home (2014)
The Properties of Rooftop Air (2020)
1. The Anubis Gates (1983)
2. Nobody's Home (2014)
The Properties of Rooftop Air (2020)
Novels
Epitaph in Rust (1976)
The Skies Discrowned (1976)
aka Forsake the Sky
The Drawing of the Dark (1979)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)
On Stranger Tides (1987)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Declare (2001)
Three Days to Never (2006)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2011)
Medusa's Web (2016)
My Brother's Keeper (2023)
The Skies Discrowned (1976)
aka Forsake the Sky
The Drawing of the Dark (1979)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)
On Stranger Tides (1987)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)
Declare (2001)
Three Days to Never (2006)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2011)
Medusa's Web (2016)
My Brother's Keeper (2023)
Collections
Night Moves (2000)
The Devils in the Details (2003) (with James P Blaylock)
Strange Itineraries (2005)
The Bible Repairman (2005)
The Devils in the Details (2003) (with James P Blaylock)
Strange Itineraries (2005)
The Bible Repairman (2005)
Novellas and Short Stories
Where They Are Hid (1995)
A Soul in a Bottle (2006)
Salvage and Demolition (2013)
Down and Out In Purgatory (2016)
More Walls Broken (2019)
After Many a Summer (2023)
A Soul in a Bottle (2006)
Salvage and Demolition (2013)
Down and Out In Purgatory (2016)
More Walls Broken (2019)
After Many a Summer (2023)
Non fiction
Omnibus editions
Anthologies containing stories by Tim Powers
Short stories
| Night Moves [short story] (1986) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| We Traverse Afar (1993) (with James P Blaylock) | |||
| Where They Are Hid [short story] (1995) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| Itinerary (1999) |
Awards
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Tim Powers recommends
Mormama (2017)
Kit Reed
"A harrowing supernatural Southern gothic--completely convincing, and scary in all sorts of ways."
Red Snow (2017)
Ian R MacLeod
"By turns horrifying and hauntingly beautiful, this epic vampire story is the stuff of real nightmares."
We Are All Completely Fine (2014)
Darryl Gregory and Daryl Gregory
"Charming and horrifying—you won't be able to stop reading it."
Warchild (2002)
(Warchild , book 1)
Karin Lowachee
"Compelling... a harrowing tale of easy treacheries and difficult loyalties... Lowachee brings her characters to vivid life."
Dark Sleeper (2000)
(Western Lights, book 1)
Jeffrey E Barlough
"This is a wonderfully rich book, as vivid and gleaming as a Dore etching; it's a wild carriage ride through the enchanted old streets and perilous country, with odder characters than any this side of Sherlock Holmes's London. You don't read this book, you live in it, and when you've finished you'll want to go back again soon."
The Rainy Season (1999)
(Ghosts Trilogy, book 3)
James P Blaylock
"Blaylock is better than anyone else at showing us the magic that secretly animates our world."
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