Tim Powers
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Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952, in Buffalo, New York) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1988 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories": he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters.
Typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. He reads extensively on a given subject, and the plot develops as Powers notes inconsistencies, gaps and curious data; regarding his award-winning 2000 novel Declare, Powers stated,
"I made it an ironclad rule that I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar – and then I tried to figure out what momentous but unrecorded fact could explain them all."
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Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories": he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters.
Typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. He reads extensively on a given subject, and the plot develops as Powers notes inconsistencies, gaps and curious data; regarding his award-winning 2000 novel Declare, Powers stated,
"I made it an ironclad rule that I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar – and then I tried to figure out what momentous but unrecorded fact could explain them all."
Click here to return to the Used Books Page.
List of Tim Powers Books For Sale (RM7 each)
1. Forsake the Sky ( 1976 )
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Frank Rozvar has seen his father murdered most foully in a palace coup. Escaping the deadly Transports he flees to the only safe place he can think of... Munson Underground, the city beneath the surface of the planet, den of thieves and haven of the damned.
Rozvar has only two goals. The first is survival. The second is vengeance. He will have both, he vows, and embarks on a course that will see him rise from the dregs of society to the very pinnacle of power.
2. The Drawing of the Dark ( 1979 )
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Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brewed. That was clear enough.
But why was he guided and guarded on the trip by creatures from the ancient legends? Why should he be attacked by ifrits and saved by mythical dwarfs? What was so important about the Herzwesten beer to the Fisher King - whoever he was? Why was Duffy plagued by visions of a sword and an arm rising from a lake? And what had a bunch of drunken, ancient Vikings to do with it all?
Then there was no time for speculation as Vienna was besieged by the Turkish armies of Suleiman. Duffy found himself drawn into a war of desperation and magic. It was up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the Dark.
3. The Anubis Gates ( 1983 )
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Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1983; Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1984; BSFA nominee, 1985
- An ancient Egyptian sorcerer whose powerful magic can change the history of the entire world!
- A modern millionaire with a sinister plan, who journeys back to England in 1810!
- A werewolf who switches bodies - then kills his victims to keep his identity a secret!
- A hideously deformed clown of crime, who performs grotesque experiments on his victims!
- A brainwashed Lord Byron - programmed to kill King George!
- A young woman disguised as a boy, hunting the thing that killed her lover!
- And our hero, Professor Brendan Doyle, who has no idea what he is getting into when he agrees to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
THE ANUBIS GATES... A TIME TRAVEL NOVEL YOU'LL NEVER FORGET
- An ancient Egyptian sorcerer whose powerful magic can change the history of the entire world!
- A modern millionaire with a sinister plan, who journeys back to England in 1810!
- A werewolf who switches bodies - then kills his victims to keep his identity a secret!
- A hideously deformed clown of crime, who performs grotesque experiments on his victims!
- A brainwashed Lord Byron - programmed to kill King George!
- A young woman disguised as a boy, hunting the thing that killed her lover!
- And our hero, Professor Brendan Doyle, who has no idea what he is getting into when he agrees to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
THE ANUBIS GATES... A TIME TRAVEL NOVEL YOU'LL NEVER FORGET
4. Dinner at Deviant's Palace ( 1985 )
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A generation after the bombs wiped out Los Angeles (along with most of the rest of the world) survivors have trickled back to set up life in the ruins. Times are hard. People take whatever solace they can - from each other, from new drugs, from perversions only whispered about in the infamous private club called Devaint's Palace. Some turn to the mysterious religious cult formed by Norton Jaybush - and once they are taken into that group, not one is ever seen again.
Greg Rivas has a reputation as a tough guy. When the woman he once loved disappears into the Jaybush cult, he takes on the most dangerous assignment of his life: to infiltrate the cult and bring her home alive. What he finds at its center, when he learns at last what Norton Jaybush really is, is a horror so devastating that he will never be free from it; and the world will be changed forever....
Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Nebula Award nominee, 1985
Greg Rivas has a reputation as a tough guy. When the woman he once loved disappears into the Jaybush cult, he takes on the most dangerous assignment of his life: to infiltrate the cult and bring her home alive. What he finds at its center, when he learns at last what Norton Jaybush really is, is a horror so devastating that he will never be free from it; and the world will be changed forever....
Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Nebula Award nominee, 1985
5. The Stress of Her Regard ( 1989 )
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She is as beautiful as she is evil, an eons-old power that has sparked a hundred myths and now threatens to ravage the lives of each of her lovers. Lord Byron, Shelly and Keats - the world's greatest poets - will find inspiration in her tender embrace... and life-draining terror in her kiss. For she is immortal, unworldly, unmerciful... Like a vampire.
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this is a tale of passion and terror.
Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1990 and winner of the 1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this is a tale of passion and terror.
Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1990 and winner of the 1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.