tim powers

Timothy Thomas Powers born Buffalo, New York: 29 February 1952 Tim Powers is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction, speculative fiction, alternative histories and steampunk. His first published SFF works were two novels: The Skies Discrowned (1976) [also published...

I'm re-reading Strangers by Dean Koontz. In it a protagonist named Ginger is idly looking at an unidentified Tim Powers book The description: a tale of time-traveling trolls fighting their own secret war against British goblins during the American revolution. No further mention in the novel...

Three Days to Never Tim Powers Morrow, Aug 2006, $24.95 ISBN 0380976536 In 1987 Frank Marrity’s grandma dies suddenly during the New Age Harmonic Convergence. The family comes to the deceased’s home in Pasadena where Frank’s twelve years old daughter Daphne takes a videotape to watch. The flick...

Expiration Date Tim Powers Orb (Tor), Mar 2007, $15.95 ISBN: 0765317524 Los Angeles is a city filled with beings not pumping gas or parking cars. Instead L.A. is a ghost town loaded with otherworldly spirits, some souls with a foot in the grave and the other on the freeway, and humans seeking...

The Bible Repairman and Other Stories Tim Powers Tachyon, Sep 1 2011, $14.95 ISBN: 9781616960476 “The Bible Repairman”. Torrez knows the cost of his blood as his soul has dwindled to almost nonexistence. His descent started with a murder leading him to find the spirits of the restless dead and...

Hide Me Among The Graves Tim Powers Morrow, Mar 13 2012, $25.99 ISBN: 9780061231544 In 1819, John Polidori is part of the romantic writers’ inner circle led by Byron and Shelley as he writes a vampire tale. Two years later he is dead, allegedly a suicide victim. In 1862 London the Rosetti...

Any TP fans who have read this early book? What did you make of it?

I read and rather liked The Stress of Her Regard, by Tim Powers but have read nothing else by him. What of his other works are like that one and/or what of his other works would anyone recommend?

Looks like Tim Powers has a new book out - has anyone read it yet? I enjoyed his previous novel, Three Days to Never, but not nearly as much as his earlier work like Anubis Gates and The Stress of Her Regard. If anyone's read it or heard anything, let me know. Otherwise, once I get through...

The Caribbean, 1718. Jack Chandagnac - Jack Shandy - is sailing to Haiti to reclaim some property when his ship is boarded by pirates. Shandy is recruited onto the pirate crew and becomes aware of a bizarre conspiracy that is unfolding between one of the passengers, Benjamin Hurwood, and the...

Powers' later novels, usually set in modern USA, most often California, weaving together espionage/noir tropes with high weirdness and arcane magic, such as Earthquake Weather, Last Call and Declare are accounted among his best; the works I've read from this latest phase of his outshine even The...

Seems that the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie is going to be titled, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Hmmmmmmm. Title for new Pirates of the Carribean film is announced - HitFix.com

Please tell me there are more than one or two people here who have read this book ? People who liked it ? Who liked other TP books but not this ?

Just found this one special limited issues. Over the course of reviewing Tim Powers's three Fisher King novels (Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather), Green Man Review summed things up this way: "There's no way I'm not recommending this trio to anyone who hasn't read it - these books...

John Chandagnac had a simple plan – go to Jamaica, approach his corrupt uncle, and get his inhertence back. Pretty easy, right? But this is a Tim Powers novel – nothing works out the way you plan. A few days away from docking in Jamaica, John finally gets up the nerve to approach Beth Hurwood...

For anyone who is interested or can make it. BFS/PS Publishing Book Launch 17/4/09, 7.30pm The George, Fleet Street, London (Closest Tube: Temple) The British Fantasy Society is proud to host the launch of the "bibliographical cornucopia" on the work of Tim Powers edited by John Berlyne and...

I just finished this book the other day, and yeah, it was really good, but i don't think it was Powers' best work. Anyone else read it? what did you think? It's got some usual Powers flavors - time travel, paranomal weirdness, strange machines, bad guys who use mystical powers. . .

If you all want to read some short fiction by Tim Powers, look for A Soul in a Bottle, published by Subterranean Press in 2006. It is a shortish story (runs 83 pages of fairly large print), published in hardback with seven lovely full-page illustrations by J. K. Potter. It's a ghost story...

I see this title mentioned in other threads, but don't seem to find any detailed discussion about it. My apologies if I somehow missed one. I finally finished reading this novel. I did see it mentioned in another thread that one of Powers' characteristics is exhaustive research into the subject...

I have just ordered this book. I was wondering which cover of it do you prefer? I ordered an older edition of the book and more expensive just cause it had an amazing cover.