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Tim Powers


(Timothy Thomas Powers)
USA flag (b.1952)

aka William Ashbless

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
 
Series
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Last Call
   1. Last Call (1992)
   2. Expiration Date (1995)
   3. Earthquake Weather (1997)
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Vickery and Castine
   1. Alternate Routes (2018)
   2. Forced Perspectives (2020)
   3. Stolen Skies (2021)
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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)
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Collections
   Night Moves (2000)
   The Devils in the Details (2003) (with James P Blaylock)
   Strange Itineraries (2005)
   The Bible Repairman (2005)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Tim Powers recommends
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Mormama (2017)
Kit Reed
"A harrowing supernatural Southern gothic--completely convincing, and scary in all sorts of ways."
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Red Snow (2017)
Ian R MacLeod
"By turns horrifying and hauntingly beautiful, this epic vampire story is the stuff of real nightmares."
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We Are All Completely Fine (2014)
Darryl Gregory and Daryl Gregory
"Charming and horrifying—you won't be able to stop reading it."

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Anthologies containing stories by Tim Powers
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Scales and Tales (2016)
Finding Forever Homes
edited by
John Palisano

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Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Book winner (1983) : The Anubis Gates
Philip K Dick Award Best Book winner (1985) : Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1986) : Dinner at Deviant's Palace
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1987) : Night Moves [short story]
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1988) : On Stranger Tides
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1990) : The Stress of Her Regard
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Stress of Her Regard
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1993) : Last Call
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1993) : Last Call
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1996) : Expiration Date
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1996) : Where They Are Hid [short story]
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Expiration Date
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1998) : Earthquake Weather
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2001) : Declare
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2002) : Declare
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Declare
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2007) : Three Days to Never
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book nominee (2011) : Declare
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2013) : Hide Me Among the Graves


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