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	Tim Powers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic family moved in 1959.
		Powers and James Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tim_Powers (755 words)

	"Strange Itineraries" by Tim Powers - Salon
		If Powers, sentence by sentence and phrase by phrase, is at least as good a writer as SF crossover stars William Gibson or Neal Stephenson, his novels lack the thematic discipline of either.
		Powers is generally described as belonging to the tradition of Philip K. Dick; his fiction repeatedly describes people caught in alternate or multiple versions of reality, haunted by ghosts who, more often than not, turn out to be their own.
		Also, Powers is unafraid of the supernatural and even the spiritual dimension; even in SF and fantasy, to venture into such speculative arenas is to risk marginalization.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/10/01/powers/index.html (805 words)

	Mylibrary: Expiration Date, Tim Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Powers builds this world on a wacky foundation of physics and metaphysics, and he peoples it with eccentrics like Sherman Oaks, a one-armed ghost hunter who detects his quarry with his phantom limb, and Nicky Bradfield, a deceased teen celebrity who subsists entirely on cinnamon candy.
		Powers' quirky vision may baffle fans of more conventional fantasy, but his colorful characters and delightful sense of the absurd should continue to attract new readers.
		Tim Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, on February 29th, 1952, but has lived in southern California since the age of seven.
	www.mylibrary.nu /Books/Books.cfm/ID/5510/PageID/22 (789 words)

	Tim Powers
		Tim Powers is an American author, most famous for his supremely imaginative Historical Fantasy novels, although has also written several science fiction stories.
		Powers' next fantasy book was “On Stranger Tides”, a novel which largely followed the formula established in “Drawing Of The Dark” and “The Anubis Gates”, but relocated the action to a new setting - the early-18th Century Caribbean, during the last years of the (in)famous pirate culture.
		Tim Powers' most recent novel is “Declare”, an ambitious mixture of historical fantasy and World War 2-era Spy Fiction.
	www.wjmarnoch.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /powers.html (4523 words)

	Tim Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The powers of magic are dwindling over time, being replaced by science and reason, so in 1802 they cast one great spell to try to bring back the Egyptian gods.
		Powers plays with the details of some established history by using his fantastic devices to make things turn out to be something other than what they appear.
		However, his plans to extend his power through his sons was cut short in 1948 when his wife shot him in the groin and managed to send his younger son, Scott, away.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/sf/powers_tim (2839 words)

	Jim Mann's Reviews and Comments: Declare by Tim Powers
		Powers has the remarkable ability to look at disparate parts of real history, examine these bits for where things are quite explained or are just about strange, and weave a compelling “secret history” of what was really going on.
		Powers is a fan of John le Carre, and much of the book reflects le Carre’s writing – not only the details, but in some ways style and even attitude.
		Powers works in a lot of convincing details of the workings of the British, Soviet, and French secret services, and also effectively portrays how nasty such organizations can be.
	dpsinfo.com /jblog/2006/01/declare-by-tim-powers.html (1123 words)

	Review - Declare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Powers' afterword is tantalizing, revealing that Philby did indeed own a fox that smoked cigars and drank whisky, and which he mourned in a drunken stupor for three days after it was murdered in cold blood.
		Tim Powers has masterfully executed a portrait of a man whose emotions are closed off and hampered by his conflicting loyalties.
		Tim Powers understands how to roll out a mystery carefully, and the travails of his quietly passionate characters leave pieces of themselves behind in the reader.
	webpages.charter.net /electricwell/RevDeclare.htm (815 words)

	Tim Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Powers creates an atmosphere of mystery and magic right from page one and manages to sustain it through to a stunning climax over six hundred pages later.
		Some have the power to animate matter and mould it into the semblance of a human form, able to wear clothes and shuffle around the streets.
		This is a novel by an author at the height of his creative powers and in which he allowed his imagination to run riot.
	homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/tim_powers.html (1655 words)

	Michael Powers by Tim Holek
		When Powers was putting the record together, he had many ideas of what he wanted to do.
		Powers himself carries the daily burden of living with diabetes.
		Powers’ fashionable music is relevant for today, yet was influenced by Jimmy Reed, the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix.
	www.bluesartstudio.at /NeueSeiten/MichaelPOWERS2006.html (1792 words)

	SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: January 26, 1999
		Powers: Blaylock and I were in college together, and we decided to write portentous-sounding poetry...
		Powers: God knows I probably don't have to be this obsessive, but I don't like leaving anything to plain inspiration.
		Powers: I probably won't be teacihng Clarion 00, since I'm teaching it this year.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/1999/TimPowers.html (5029 words)

	Try Tim Powers - Topic Powered by eve community
		Powers uses historic characters in fantastical settings: "The Stress of Her Regard" is a Byron / Shelley / vampire story.
		Come to think of it, American Gods was pretty close to a Tim Powers outing, but without the goosebumps you get from Powers when you have to keep figuring the connections out for yourself.
		March 10, 2004 09:37 AM Tim Powers is a great author, but he is very hit and miss it seems.
	neilgaimanboard.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/325601665/m/2696015081 (879 words)

	Interview de Tim Powers
		Tim Powers a inauguré en 1983 la mouvance steampunk avec son roman Les voies d'Anubis.
		Tim Powers : Because I like a lot of children literature things like The Wind in the Willow, Narnia books, Winnie the Pooh, those are good books, I do enjoy them.
		Tim Powers : Yes I live in an house with a lots of books around virtually all English language poetry romantics like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,Victorian like Swinburne and early 20th century people like T.S. Eliot, W. Auden, I like a lot of translations for example French.
	www.actusf.com /SF/interview/itw_powersvo.htm (670 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Tim Powers]
		A two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, SF and fantasy novelist Tim Powers is recognized for his intricately plotted stories filled with well-rounded and often outlandish characters.
		The novel centers on a powerful "psychic vampire" -- commandant of the foul nightclub Deviant's Palace -- and his followers, who brainwash Los Angeles inhabitants and seize control of the entire city.
		"Tim Powers has written across the entire range of the literature of the fantastic," declared Orson Scott Card in his Washington Post Book World review, "but he is at his best when writing gonzo historical novels...
	www.dragoncon.org /people/powerst.html (845 words)

	Amazon.ca: Last Call: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As with all of Tim's books, though, the layers are much thicker than that, and if you can take the time to re-read some passages, you'll come away with a greater appreciation for how much care he has put into weaving all the threads together.
		Powers' novels different from others is that his fantasy novels take place in our world and seem that what goes on really could happen.
		Powers uses the poem to good effect, as he has with the Romantic poets in "The Stress of Her Regard" and other works.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0380715570 (1270 words)

	A brief impression of the TIm Powers book signing at Dark Carnival
		Powers previously, when he had just completed Earthquake Weather, and found him a wonderful conversationalist, which I managed to find out because his appearance was criminally underattended.
		Powers has a consistent and good sense of the awe that an encounter with inhuman and magical entities would likely produce.
		Tim Powers gives me the impression of being compact and neat, almost to the point feeling like a Kabuki mask.
	www.qusoor.com /Essays/Powers.htm (748 words)

	Amazon.com: The Drawing of the Dark (Del Rey Impact): Books: Tim Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tim Powers does a great job of tying the historical invasion of eastern Europe by the Turks to a rollicking, fun-filled fantasy, which offers its own reasons for the invasion and a wonderful cast of heroes that ultimately repel the invaders.
		In typical Tim Powers style, the plot of this late Renaissance fantasy begins with threads of story weaving in all directions, and resolves at last by the end of the book.
		Half the fun in Powers' work is just giving in to the whole sulphurous madness, enjoying the juice, the sense of place, the wildness, the archaic, the delicious heady juxtaposition of the wild and weird and woolly and historic and completely insane.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345430816?v=glance (2555 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Declare
		Again, the powers and principalities lurking behind the walls of the world can be enlisted as protectors and inspiration by human factions willing to sacrifice all principle and autonomy in the process; and once some humans are complicit with the medusae and the djinn, all others are drawn in in self-defense.
		Against this apocalyptic prospect, the Western powers mobilize key elements of their secret services; and the Cold War is anatomized, bizarrely but with a persuasive awful conviction, as a battle to keep the cork in the genies' bottle.
		Perhaps this is an allegory on the evils of Communism; perhaps the ungodly forces Powers' Soviets are keen to unleash stand in the author's symbolic scheme for the secular horrors Stalinism in fact unleashed, and threatened to unleash in still greater measure.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/dec100.htm (718 words)

	Escape to L.A. - Tim Powers Biography
		Two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, Science fiction and fantasy novelist Tim Powers is recognized for his intricately plotted stories filled with well-rounded and often outlandish characters.
		A Tim Powers science fiction novel never fails to titillate and elucidate with the dark and the bizarre, Sue Martin remarked in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and all with such original, eccentric color and style.
		The novel centers on a powerful "psychic vampire"--commandant of the foul nightclub Deviant's Palace--and his followers, who brainwash Los Angeles inhabitants and seize control of the entire city.
	www.loscon.org /31/timpowers.html (815 words)

	Law Offices of Tim Powers - Denton, Texas
		He is a former Assistant District Attorney and Chief Misdemeanor Prosecutor, Powers was voted 1997 Denton County Prosecutor of the Year.
		Tim has experience in over 5,000 DWI, drug, assault/family violence, divorce and family law cases in North Texas.
		Tim Powers is an experienced legal analyst and commentator for various media outlets including the Associated Press and has been seen in national mediums including: USA Today, Newsday, ABC News Online, MSNBC.com, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and Denton Record-Chronicle, among others.
	www.timpowers.com (558 words)

	the pathetic caverns - books by author - Tim Powers
		They tend to focus on how good Powers is at looking at some historical events and coming up with alternate connections that explain them at least as well as the presumed actual occurrences and the reasons behind them.
		I tend to think that Powers is a better stylist than a lot of genre writers, as well as one of the least clichéd of modern fantasists.
		They had climbed in among the apartments, picking their way over the drywall and joist beams and aluminum window frames that had fallen across beds and couches, and shuffled carefully across springy, uneven floors, and stared at the body counts spray-painted by rescue workers on the pictureless walls.
	www.pathetic-caverns.com /books/p/tim_powers.html (950 words)

	Law Offices of Tim Powers - Denton, Texas
		Tim Powers formed this legal practice with a commitment to provide excellent client service.
		Tim Powers' experience makes him uniquely qualified to approach cases from a seasoned and diverse perspective.
		The Law Offices of Tim Powers conducts business in a way which demonstrates a deep respect for our clients as individuals.
	www.timpowers.com /about_us.php (629 words)

	The Powers of Fantastic Fiction \| An IgnatiusInsight.com Interview with Tim Powers \| September 7, 2005
		Tim Powers is a unique, imaginative, and versatile author whose work has been compared to that of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and Clive Barker.
		Powers describes himself as "a conservative Catholic who’s also fascinated with stuff that’s grotesque and weird and funny and dramatic." IgnatiusInsight.com recently interviewed Powers about his work, the world of science fiction and fantasy, and the relationship between literature and faith.
		Powers: I’d say – simplistically – that a Catholic novel is a novel that is based on the assumption that Catholicism is true, and is about Catholicism.
	www.ignatiusinsight.com /features2005/tpowers_intvw_sept05.asp (3033 words)

	Tim Powers
		Tim Powers is an author that has carved out his own unique niche in the spectrum.
		Powers weaves Arthurian elements, the story of the Fisher King and real history to create a book full of action and adventure with some sly humor.
		Powers creates a dark story with cynical characters and dangerous horrors in a strange future world.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3080/90924 (421 words)

	DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Tim Powers (2000)
		Powers takes myth, folklore, legend, and accurate history and weaves in supernatural assumptions, wild (but believable) alternate explanations for events, a sense of adventure, and exquisite weirdness to produce his highly original novels.
		Powers says he never deliberately chooses the tone of a book: "I don't think one could maintain an assumed tone throughout the writing of a whole book.
		Powers short fiction will be collected as NIGHT MOVES later this year from Subterranean Press.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/powers.html (2349 words)

	Tim Powers - Bio
		Sometimes, it even worked (however, Tim is aware that he is an "autumn" and that he looks best in "viva glam" lipstick and a touch of color in his cheeks).
		In the early days of the 21st Century, Tim's career in radio found him working at the legendary Rock powerhouse KSHE-95 in St. Louis where his talents for comedy and advertising copy were honed.
		Tim was nominated for and won several awards for creative advertising in St. Louis.
	www.timisfunny.com /bio.php (472 words)

	Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a book that all too easily could have become plot- or action-oriented, Powers keeps his characters and their conflicts at the center of the story.
		Powers doesn't shy away from showing his characters at their worst, either, which is what makes them so appealingly human.
		For those of you who've discovered Powers and his recent work, this novel is one you should add to your collection.
	rambles.net /powers_drawing.html (465 words)

	Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers
		In the villain role, a deeply decadent, ghost-eating psychologist who "favored the quick 'buying the pharm' attitude toward mental illness over the long, tormenting, dangerous routines of psychotherapy" and gobbled dissociative disorders "the tastiest maladies he could cure...short of curing somebody of their very life, of course which was ethically problematic".
		As usual, Powers stretches our imagination in strange but believable ways while adding humorous quips like "If you insist on the world being logical at every turn, you'll eventually be forced to retreat all the way into genuine insanity".
		Tim Powers - not well-known outside the world of science fiction/fantasy but one of the great literary voices of our time.
	www.thesustainablevillage.com /awrbooks/html/BooksinHTML/earthquake.html (245 words)

	Powers of Two by Tim Powers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If you want to trade in your misprinted copy of Powers of Two, please follow this procedure which is designed to save you the cost of shipping the whole book to us.
		This book is being produced for Arisia 2004 at which convention Tim Powers is Guest of Honor.
		Tim Powers has been writing SF novels since the mid '70s.
	www.nesfa.org /press/Books/Powers-2.html (224 words)

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