Tim Powers

Tim Powers
Powers celebrating his 61st birthday in 2013
Powers celebrating his 61st birthday in 2013
Born (1952-02-29) February 29, 1952 (age 72)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Pen nameWilliam Ashbless (joint)
OccupationWriter
EducationCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Period1976–present
GenreAdventure fiction, speculative fiction
Literary movementSteampunk
SpouseSerena Batsford
Website
www.facebook.com/AuthorTimPowers/
Powers at the annual ICon festival, a fan convention in Israel, October 2005
Powers in the "Koloseum" at ICon 2005

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]

  1. ^ "WonderCon Special Guests," Comic-Con Magazine (Winter 2010), p. 20.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Powells.com Interviews – Tim Powers Archived 2001-06-27 at the Wayback Machine