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Tim Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, on Leap Year Day in 1952, but has lived in southern California since 1959. He graduated from California State University at Fullerton with a B.A. in English in 1976; the same year saw the publication of his first two novels, The Skies Discrowned and Epitaph in Rust (both from Laser Books).
Powers's subsequent novels include The Drawing of the Dark, The Anubis Gates, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, The Stress of Her Regard, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather, and Declare. A uniquely brilliant, versatile author, Tim Powers has been compared to Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and Clive Barker, and was lauded by Kirkus as "the reigning king of adult historical fantasy." His novel Declare, a supernatural secret history of post-WWII espionage, won the 2001 World Fantasy and the International Horror Guild Awards. He is also the two-time recipient of the Philip K. Dick Award for The Anubis Gates and Dinner at Deviant's Palace, and a three-time Locus Award winner for Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather. Powers has taught at the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University six times, and has three times co-taught the Writers of the Future Workshop with Algis Budrys. Powers lives with his wife Serena in San Bernardino, California. |
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"Beautifully crafted tales..."
-Locus
September 2011 / 978-1-61696-047-6 / $14.95 trade paperback
Also by Tim Powers
Strange Itineraries
The Stress of Her Regard
In his first new collection since 2005, the master of the secret history delves into the mysteries of souls, whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable box.
-Locus "Most fantasy authors aim at persuading you of the reality of their invented worlds. Mr. Powers makes you doubt the reality of your own. Are there still sin-eaters and ghost-talkers quietly pursuing their trade in tenements and behind weed-infested yards, with regular tariffs and specializations? If there are, what do they know that you don't? That's what creates a true frisson." -Wall Street Journal "Poignant" - Publishers Weekly "Tim Powers' first collection of short fiction in over half a decade, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories is a potent six-story collection that plays effortlessly with many of the author's favorite themes." -The Green Man Review "Powers specializes in hidden histories and all of these stories present a very real exterior and another world inside its cracks." -The Denver Post "Powers' first new collection since 2005 assembles five stories and a novella, where he exhibits his extraordinary talent as a fantasist and his uncommon imaginative power." -SF Site "Superb...Here, in potent, distilled form, you will find Powers's trademarked secret histories, heroically damaged (or damagedly heroic) losers, creepy supernatural phenomena, and macabre humor." -Barnes and Noble Review Praise for Tim Powers: "Tim Powers is a brilliant writer." -William Gibson "Powers orchestrates reality and fantasy so artfully that the reader is not allowed a moment's doubt." -The New Yorker "Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of. And, just when it threatens to get out of hand, there's a dash of humor and irony that keeps you reading for the joy of it." -The Washington Post "No one writing today fuses history with fantasy as shrewdly - or as unpredictably - as Tim Powers." -The Barnes and Noble Review "...a reigning master of adult contemporary fantasy." -Booklist "Powers has already proved that he is a master of what he terms 'doing card tricks in the dark,' referring to the incredible amount of historical, biographical, and practical research that goes into his works." -Harvard Review "Powers plots like a demon." -The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...the reigning king of adult historical fantasy..." -Kirkus Reviews "Tim Powers is a genius." -Algis Budrys Praise for The Stress of Her Regard: "great ambition and intensity...a complex and satisfying novel" -Interzone "Good serious fantasy doesn't come much better than The Stress Of Her Regard" -Oxford Times "Strewn with literary personages and allusions, the book is entertaining on several levels..." -Publishers Weekly "Powers' framing of a vast, mysterious conspiracy, with ancient supernatural powers, hidden riddles and secret societies, rivals anything written by Umberto Eco..." -Blogcritics Magazine "intricately laced plots, theories of magick advanced and practical, and strange-but-true historical incidents" -Green Man Review "...well-written and overflowing with imagination..." -Bookgasm "Doing what Powers does best, by interspersing a dozen plot lines and characters with a bucket-load of paranormal and tying them up perfectly, he has conjured a tale that could be taken from the history books and taught as fact and no one would even bother to challenge it. The unfortunate truth is that it's not real and that's what it makes it all the more amazing." -SFCrowsnest |
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