Timothy Thomas Powers is an American author of Science-fiction. Born the February 29th 1952, it currently lives Muscoy (California).

In many its novels, Tim Powers utilizes historical characters or facts, but by implying them in supernatural or fantastic events. Thus for example appear the poets Coleridge and Lord Byron in the ways of Anubis (Lord Byron will be also an important protagonist in the weight of its glance ), the English pirate Black Barbe in On more ignored seas , or Thomas Edison in Scratch date .

Tim Powers, with James Blaylock and K.W. To throw, is at the origin of the Steampunk, in particular with its novel the ways of Anubis .

Biography

Tim Powers was born with Buffalo, New York, and grew in California after having moved there with its family in 1959. He studied the English Littérature with the Université of State of California with Fullerton, where he met his friends K.W. To throw and James Blaylock. Besides he invented with this last the character of William Ashbless of which they served each one in their works. He met during this period another of his friends, the writer Philip K. Dick, who took as a starting point Powers for the character of David in Siva .

Its first true novel was the knights of brown the (1979), but the novel which revealed it was the following, the ways of Anubis (1983), which gained the Prix Memorial Philip K. Dick and which thus was translated and published in many countries.

He is also part-time professor at the school of arts of told of Orange, California, where his/her friend Blaylock is director of the department of creative writing.

Works

Novels

• Series Fault Lines :

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