Tim Powers | |
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 Powers celebrating his 61st birthday in 2013 | |
| Born | February 29, 1952 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Pen name | William Ashbless (joint) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | California State University, Fullerton |
| Period | 1976–present |
| Genre | Adventure fiction, speculative fiction |
| Literary movement | Steampunk |
| Spouse | Serena Batsford |
| Website | |
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Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952)[1] is an American science fiction and fantasy author. His first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates (1983), which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages. His other written work include Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985), Last Call (1992), Expiration Date (1996), Earthquake Weather (1997), Declare (2000), and Three Days to Never (2006). Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1987 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was partly adapted into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.[2]
Several of Powers' novels depict historical events being influenced by occult or supernatural factors. Regarding his 2001 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."[3]
- ^ "WonderCon Special Guests," Comic-Con Magazine (Winter 2010), p. 20.
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