Author | Tim Powers |
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Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | Subterranean Press |
Publication date | July 2006 |
Media type | Hardcover |
Pages | 344 |
ISBN | 1-59606-049-2 |
OCLC | 63122894 |
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LC Class | PS3566.O95 T48 2006 |
Three Days to Never is a 2006 fantasy novel by Tim Powers. As with most of Powers' novels, it proposes a secret history in which real events have supernatural causes and prominent historical figures have been involved in supernatural or occult activities.[1] The novel was shortlisted for the Locus Fantasy Award in 2007[2] as well as the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in the same year.[3]
To strangers I usually say I write science fiction books, just because if I said fantasy I don't know what they'd imagine I meant by that. To myself, I just think I write that stuff we read, that stuff that is kind of under the umbrella of, oh... Bradbury, Heinlein, Lovecraft, Sturgeon, Leiber... I think the distinction between science fiction and fantasy is an arbitrary one. Generally people who write one also write the other. And so when I'm writing I never think, you know, 'Is this one science fiction? Is this one horror?' I just think 'Well, it's that stuff. We'll certainly have something like ghosts wandering around, and...'