Consagrado como el padre del steampunk y reconocido internacionalmente por sus apasionantes novelas de fantasía histórica, Powers ha cultivado el formato corto en contadas ocasiones. Esta recopilación recoge los mejores relatos de su dilatada carrera profesional y presenta facetas tan atípicas como memorables del autor de En costas extrañas, Las puertas de Anubis y La fuerza de su mirada, entre otras novelas. Tim Powers nació en 1952 en Buffalo (Nueva York). Se educó en California y fue miembro del grupo de escritores que rodearon a Philip K. Dick (el llamado «grupo de California», que incluye también a K. W. Jeter, James P. Blaylock y Rudy Rucker). Empezó a publicar en 1975 y alcanzó la celebridad durante la década de los ochenta, en particular gracias a ganar en dos ocasiones el premio Philip K. Dick. Su obra se caracteriza por una mezcla indiscriminada de humor y narración culta, así como de temas clásicos de la ciencia ficción con otros puramente fantásticos, siendo particularmente popular por sus novelas de fantasía de ambientación histórica. Dondequiera que se oculten Un alma embotellada El camino de bajada El reparador de biblias Salvación y destrucción Tiempo de sembrar piedras
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Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories": he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters. Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic 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; the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "steampunks" in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton. Another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick; the character named "David" in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) is dedicated to him. Powers' first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates, which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages. 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. Powers and his wife, Serena, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop. He also taught part time at the University of Redlands. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
