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Tim Powers

(Timothy Thomas Powers)
USA  (1952 - )
aka
William Ashbless
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About Tim Powers
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 Blaylock directs the Creative Writing Conservatory, and Chapman University, where Blaylock teaches.

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.
 
Non fiction
Steampunk: The Beginning
 
Anthologies containing stories by Tim Powers
Christmas Forever999: Twenty-nin Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
 
Short stories
Night Moves [short story] (1986)World Fantasy (nominee)
We Traverse Afar (1993) (with James P Blaylock)
Where They Are Hid [short story] (1995)World Fantasy (nominee)
Itinerary (1999)


Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Novel winner (1983) : The Anubis Gates
Philip K Dick Award Best Novel winner (1985) : Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1986) : Dinner at Deviant's Palace
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1987) : Night Moves [short story]
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1988) : On Stranger Tides
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Stress of Her Regard
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Stress of Her Regard
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1993) : Last Call
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1993) : Last Call
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1996) : Expiration Date
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1996) : Where They Are Hid [short story]
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1997) : Expiration Date
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1998) : Earthquake Weather
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2001) : Declare
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2002) : Declare
Nebula Best Novel nominee (2002) : Declare
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2007) : Three Days to Never
Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel nominee (2011) : Declare


Links to other websites
The Works Of Tim Powers


Tim Powers recommends
The Digging Leviathan
The Digging Leviathan (1984)
(Digging Leviathan)
James P Blaylock
"A literally wonderful novel - Blaylock's convincingly idiosyncratic characters lurch, rage and strive through a sort of modern day Heironymus Bosch cityscape that makes us peer a little more suspiciously at the pavement under our own feet."
The Kundalini Equation
The Kundalini Equation (1986)
Steven Barnes
"Barnes gives us characters that are vividly real people, conceived with insight and portrayed with compassion and rare skill."
Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams (1987)
James P Blaylock
"Powerful, magical, suspenseful and funny...destined to be one of the fields classics!"
The Rainy Season
The Rainy Season (1999)
James P Blaylock
"Blaylock is better than anyone else at showing us the magic that secretly animates our world."
Dark Sleeper
Dark Sleeper (2000)
(Western Lights, book 1)
Jeffrey E Barlough
"This is a wonderfully rich book, as vivid and gleaming as a Dore etching; it's a wild carriage ride through the enchanted old streets and perilous country, with odder characters than any this side of Sherlock Holmes's London. You don't read this book, you live in it, and when you've finished you'll want to go back again soon."
Warchild
Warchild (2002)
(Warchild , book 1)
Karin Lowachee
"Compelling... a harrowing tale of easy treacheries and difficult loyalties... Lowachee brings her characters to vivid life."



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