Tim Powers





Tim Powers

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in Buffalo, New York, The United States
February 29, 1952

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Timothy 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...more


Average rating: 3.88 · 27,482 ratings · 2,731 reviews · 36 distinct works · Similar authors
The Anubis Gates
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 5,740 ratings — published 1983 — 36 editions
Last Call (Fault Lines, #1)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 2,722 ratings — published 1992 — 25 editions
On Stranger Tides
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 2,778 ratings — published 1987 — 38 editions
Declare
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,965 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions
The Drawing of the Dark
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,811 ratings — published 1979 — 16 editions
The Stress of Her Regard
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 1,697 ratings — published 1989 — 23 editions
Expiration Date
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,247 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
Three Days to Never
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
Earthquake Weather
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,022 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions
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“Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.”
Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides

“Thus Milton refines the question down to a matter of faith," said Coleridge, bringing the lecture to a close, "and a kind of faith more independent, autonomous - more truly strong, as a matter of fact - than the Puritans really sought. Faith, he tells us, is not an exotic bloom to be laboriously maintained by the exclusion of most aspects of the day to day world, nor a useful delusion to be supported by sophistries and half-truths like a child's belief in Father Christmas - not, in short, a prudently unregarded adherence to a constructed creed; but rather must be, if anything, a clear-eyed recognition of the patterns and tendencies, to be found in every piece of the world's fabric, which are the lineaments of God. This is why religion can only be advice and clarification, and cannot carry any spurs of enforcement - for only belief and behavior that is independently arrived at, and then chosen, can be praised or blamed. This being the case, it can be seen as a criminal abridgement of a person's rights willfully to keep him in ignorance of any facts - no piece can be judged inadmissible, for the more stones, both bright and dark, that are added to the mosaic, the clearer is our picture of God.”
Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates

“The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.”
Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates

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