Tim Powers

Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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His works are mostly notable for being 'secret histories' - he uses actual, documented historical events, but shows another view of them, in which magic is a major moving force in the motivations and actions of the characters.

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Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his 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. Another friend he first met during this period (but not, unlike Blaylock and Jeter, a fellow student) was Philip K. Dick; the character named "David" in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers.

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Powers and James Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.

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His first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that put him on the map was his next, The Anubis Gates, which (appropriately) won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. The Anubis Gates has been translated and published in many other languages since.

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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.

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Powers is currently living in Muscoy, California and has several cats as well as a pet rabbit named Brendan Mac Sidhe, pronouced "Mac Shee."

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