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Fault Lines #2-3
Fault Lines comprising Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather
Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction’s most original talents. Ghost can be caught, bottled, and sold by covert dealers to addicts who inhale the things - and when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles’s occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and get Edison’s powerful ghost for themselves. Earthquake Wether - A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life. But Crane’s body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pete and Angelica Sullivan, and their adopted son, Koot Hoomie. Kootie is destined to be the next Fisher king, but he is only 13 years old - too young, his mother thinks, to perform the rituals to assume the Kingship. But not too young, perhaps, to assist in reuniting Scott Crane’s body and spirit, and restoring him to life.
933 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
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About the author
Tim Powers
172 books1,733 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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June 23, 2019
Volumen ómnibus que, pese a su título, no incluye la trilogía Fault Lines entera, sino solo Expiration Date y Earthquake Weather, segunda y tercera parte de la misma, siendo Última ronda la primera y única traducida al castellano por ahora.
Expiration Date es una historia aparte de Última Ronda; por su parte, Earthquake Weather es el pegamento que une las historias de las dos novelas anteriores. Heredando los elementos de la primera novela (el Rey Pescador, el Tarot, etc.) y añadiendo componentes de fantasmas dickensianos, dioses de la mitología griega y las manos de Houdini, el autor desarrolla una historia independiente en el segundo libro, que se unirá a la del primero en la tercera novela, un largo relato coral (con más personas diferentes que cuerpos dispuestos a albergarlas) unido espiritualmente al de Esencia oscura, cuya principal característica es la imposibilidad de seguirlo si no se hace un cuadrante de personajes, escenarios y situaciones que ubiquen la acción en cada momento. Powers es un titán y se piensa que somos todos como él.
Me ha llevado tiempo. A ratos se ha hecho cuesta arriba. Finalmente, ha merecido la pena. Hay muchas voces en la literatura fantástica de actualidad, pero Powers es de las mejores.
Expiration Date es una historia aparte de Última Ronda; por su parte, Earthquake Weather es el pegamento que une las historias de las dos novelas anteriores. Heredando los elementos de la primera novela (el Rey Pescador, el Tarot, etc.) y añadiendo componentes de fantasmas dickensianos, dioses de la mitología griega y las manos de Houdini, el autor desarrolla una historia independiente en el segundo libro, que se unirá a la del primero en la tercera novela, un largo relato coral (con más personas diferentes que cuerpos dispuestos a albergarlas) unido espiritualmente al de Esencia oscura, cuya principal característica es la imposibilidad de seguirlo si no se hace un cuadrante de personajes, escenarios y situaciones que ubiquen la acción en cada momento. Powers es un titán y se piensa que somos todos como él.
Me ha llevado tiempo. A ratos se ha hecho cuesta arriba. Finalmente, ha merecido la pena. Hay muchas voces en la literatura fantástica de actualidad, pero Powers es de las mejores.
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