Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-354-9
Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in...
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Tim Powers, Author . Subterranean $40 (256p) ISBN 978-1-892284-84-6
First published in 1985, this legendary and still distinctive novel may attract new fans, although the postnuclear-war theme has become somewhat dated. Technology has vanished in a barbaric, 22nd-century California run by a Sidney Greenstreet...
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Tim Powers, Author . Tachyon $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-892391-23-0
The nine eccentric, label-defying selections (three written with James P. Blaylock) in Powers's outstanding first story collection offer the same literary pleasures as this World Fantasy Award–winner's novels (Declare
, etc.). The...
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Tim Powers, Author . Morrow $24.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-380-97653-9
Powers (Declare
) delivers another top-notch supernatural spy thriller. When Frank Marrity's grandmother dies unexpectedly during 1987's New Age Harmonic Convergence, his 12-year-old daughter, Daphne, steals a videotape from the old woman'
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Tim Powers, Author Avon Books $7.99 (533p) ISBN 978-0-380-71557-2
In a difficult, but distinctive and commanding novel, Powers posits a world of magic and horror behind the neon flash of contemporary Las Vegas. (Oct.)
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Tim Powers, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (528p) ISBN 978-0-380-97652-2
Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer...
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Tim Powers, Author Ace Books $17.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-441-79055-5
Set early in the 19th century, Powers's ( On Stranger Tides ) seventh novel is a horror story that wonderfully evokes the period. On the stormy night before his wedding, Dr. Michael Crawford, in an ill-advised moment while drinking and carousing...
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Tim Powers, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86086-8
The playful spirit of Lewis Carroll's Alice books-``the Old and New Testament for ghosts,'' as one character in this screwball supernatural comedy puts it-live on in World Fantasy Award-winning Powers's latest dazzler (after Last Call). The ghosts...
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Tim Powers, Author Subterranean Press $40 (170p) ISBN 978-1-892284-94-5
This deluxe small press collection pulls together for the first time all of Powers's published short fiction. An introduction by Powers's friend and sometime coauthor, acclaimed contemporary fantasist James P. Blaylock, offers some remembrances of...
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Tim Powers, Author Subterranean Press $18.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-59606-167-5
World Fantasy Award\x96winner Powers (Three Days to Never) demonstrates a precise control of complex narratives in this reprint of his rollicking and enchanting 1987 novel. Puppeteer John Chandagnac, bound for Jamaica to recover stolen money from...
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Tim Powers. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-61696-047-6
Terrible choices face the protagonists of six poignant pieces by historical fantasist Powers (On Stranger Tides). Some must learn to release their ghosts, like the eponymous contractor who customizes Bibles by removing unwanted passages. Others...
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Tim Powers. Morrow, $25.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-123154-4
The vampiric specter of John Polidori, who published the first work of vampire fiction in 1819 and died a probable suicide in 1821, haunts 1862 London in Powers’s stellar supernatural thriller, a sequel of sorts to 1989’s The Stress of Her Regard....
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Tim Powers, Author, J. K. Potter, Illustrator . Subterranean $22 (83p) ISBN 978-1-59606-075-3
In this taut, eerie novella from Powers (Three Days to Never
), used-book hunter George Sydney finds he can summon a beautiful poet when he discovers a signed volume containing a previously unknown variant of one sonnet. The good news is that he can
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Tim Powers. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $30 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59606-515-4
A rare book dealer and a forgotten beat poet save the world in this charming time-travel tale from liminal fantasist Powers (Hide Me Among the Graves). As far as Richard Blanzac is concerned, the mysterious poetry manuscript he's found in a beatup...
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William Ashbless, Author, Tim Powers, Author, James P. Blaylock, Author Subterranean Press $20 (68p) ISBN 978-1-59606-141-5
SF vets Tim Powers and James P. Blaylock present a lost short story by their fictional poet, William Ashbless, with Powers providing a pseudo-scholarly introduction and Blaylock an afterword. Ashbless himself gets the last word in a postscript....
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy Press, $16 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-61986-502-0
The 32nd installment of the Writers of the Future contest, a showcase for new and exceptional speculative fiction and artwork, is an engaging mix of thought-provoking and inventive stories, accompanied by equally impressive illustrations. Several of
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Tim Powers. Morrow, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-226245-5
Reviewed by Catherynne M. ValenteA new Tim Powers novel is always cause for excitement. His latest is a twisted journey through time travel, possession, old Hollywood, addiction, and familial violence that promises much and, mostly, delivers. ...
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Tim Powers. Subterranean, $30 (120p) ISBN 978-1-59606-781-3
This bite-size horror-comedy is toothsome, if not as satisfying as some of Powers’s longer works. Tom Holbrook hopes to find and take revenge on murderer John Atwater, who killed Holbrook’s beloved, Shasta DiMaio. He’s temporarily stymied when...
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Tim Powers. Baen, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8340-7
Powers (Medusa’s Web) continues his run of smashing expectations and then playing with the pieces in this entertaining urban fantasy. Former Secret Service agent Sebastian Vickery makes an under-the-radar living driving passengers in cars that...
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Tim Powers. Subterranean, $25 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59606-886-5
Three professors fumble their way through opening gates to increasing disaster in Powers’s enjoyable novella. Young Clive Cobb and his two elder colleagues at California State University’s consciousness research department attempt to raise the ghost
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Tim Powers. Baen, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2440-3
Federal agents Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine return in Powers’s frenetic urban fantasy that playfully blends Egyptian mythology, alternate Los Angeles history, and modern technology. After sealing off the rift between the world and a...
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Tim Powers. Subterranean, $35 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59606-974-9
The evil clown Horrabin returns in this tense and emotionally rich novella, which pulls readers back into the world of Powers’s 1983 fantasy, The Anubis Gates. In 19th-century London, 34-year-old Isaac Fairchild is a member of Horrabin’s crew, and a
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Tim Powers. Baen, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-982125-83-7
Paranormal investigators Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine, a pair of well-matched misfits last encountered in Forced Perspectives, are back in L.A. to stave off an extraterrestrial apocalypse in this fun, dimension-bending thriller. After going...
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Tim Powers. Subterranean, $40 (88p) ISBN 978-1-64524-124-9
World Fantasy Award winner Powers (Stolen Skies) is a master at turning gonzo concepts into mystical thrill rides, and this latest novella is no exception, setting a mummified head as the ransom in the kidnapping of Belgian heiress Arielle. This...
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Tim Powers. Baen, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-982192-86-0
World Fantasy Award winner Powers (On Stranger Tides) returns with an impressive mash-up of literary biography and werewolf lore. The Brontë sisters—Emily, Anne, and Catherine—tend to their aging father and wayward brother, Branwell, while trying to
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Tim Powers. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59606-670-0
Powers builds on his 1983 novel The Anubis Gates with this novella of Victorian ghosts and vengeance. Harriet is beset by her dead husband’s ghost, which is trying to kill her. She’s rescued by Jacky, a woman disguised as a man, but this turn as a...
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