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First published January 1, 1995
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Tim Powers
137 books1,757 followersTimothy Thomas Powers 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.
Most of Powers's 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.
Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic family moved in 1959.
He studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, where he first met James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators; the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "steampunks" in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.
Another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick; the character named "David" in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) is dedicated to him.
Powers's first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates, which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages.
Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts where his friend, Blaylock, is Director of the Creative Writing Department. Powers and his wife, Serena, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop.
He also taught part time at the University of Redlands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Most of Powers's 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.
Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic family moved in 1959.
He studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, where he first met James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators; the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "steampunks" in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.
Another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick; the character named "David" in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) is dedicated to him.
Powers's first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates, which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages.
Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts where his friend, Blaylock, is Director of the Creative Writing Department. Powers and his wife, Serena, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop.
He also taught part time at the University of Redlands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
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November 29, 2021
A novella nominated for the World Fantasy award in 1996. It's an interesting tightly plotted time travel story (with a few touches of alternate history), with the usual Powers style.
December 21, 2016
I realized that I barely remembered this story after reading it maybe 15 years ago and decided to give it a reread. I've always been more a fan of novels than short stories, but there's plenty of classic Powers creativity here. In fact, this seems like the epitome of a story that could only have come from the mind of Tim Powers, though interestingly he says in the notes at the end of the Night Moves collection that this was his most Phil Dick-influenced story. He also says that Dick read and liked it, but didn't put that in writing, so we'll have to take his word for it. Anyway, this is a truly unique story; it involves time travel, life, death, destiny, world changing events... all in a quirky sort of way, and it takes place entirely in the space of a few blocks in Santa Ana, California. It's deeply intriguing but goes by quickly, so pay attention!
February 12, 2009
Good luck finding this novella-- but if you can, PICK IT UP. I have a limited edition copy, numbered and signed courtesy of The Jen. It's a beauty, as is the tale.
I'm not giving anything away. Suffice to say, it's well worth the read. It moves too quick for me to tell you much of anything at all.
I'm not giving anything away. Suffice to say, it's well worth the read. It moves too quick for me to tell you much of anything at all.
December 14, 2008
An intricate masterpiece of time travel from Tim Powers. There's a novel's worth of story crammed into only 36 pages which needs to be read more than once to get the full effect.
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