Tim Powers
Tim Powers is an American author who specializes in secret history novels in which historical events are reinterpreted as occult conflicts. The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides are among the finest genre novels of the 1980s and have been enormously influential. On Stranger Tides became the basis for a Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Works
- The Anubis GatesSteampunk time-travel adventure with ancient Egyptian magic and temporal paradoxes
- DeclareSpy thriller weaving Cold War espionage with supernatural and occult elements
- On Stranger TidesAdventure fantasy featuring ghosts, pirates, and voodoo in the Caribbean
- Last CallDark fantasy poker game with magical stakes and a haunted Las Vegas setting
- Dinner at Deviant's PalaceCyberpunk noir set in a decadent future palace filled with androids and addicts
- The Drawing of the DarkFantasy featuring magical brewing, Crusades intrigue, and Ottoman supernatural forces
- The Stress of Her RegardGothic tale of a man cursed by a woman's death through supernatural connection