Tim Powers

(1952 --)

Tim Powers is an sf and fantasy author of many novels, mostly secret histories in which he uses actual historical events, but provides an alternative fantastic explanation of them. He said, "I made it an ironclad rule that I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar – and then I tried to figure out what momentous but unrecorded fact could explain them all."

As an English Lit major, he met his close friends and sometimes collaborators James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter, (with whom he invented the author William Ashbless), and he still teaches and works as a writer-in-residence.

His first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark, followed by The Anubis Gates, Declare, and a dozen other novels. His On Stranger Tides was the basis of the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1987 -- OryCon '87, TusCon 14
• 1988 -- Life, the Universe, & Everything 6
• 1989 -- Boskone 26, Fourth Street Fantasy 1989, Unicon 13
• 1991 -- CON/FUSION, Moscon XIII, SoonerCon 7
• 1993 -- 1993 World Fantasy Convention
• 1994 -- 1994 World Fantasy Convention
• 1995 -- La-La-Con 1
• 1996 -- Deviant ConFusion, Jack Williamson Lectureship
• 1997 -- Ad Astra XVII
• 1998 -- LepreCon 24
• 1999 -- Con-Dor 7
• 2001 -- Westercon 54, Necon 21
• 2002 -- VCON 27, Necronomicon '02
• 2003 -- Capricon 23
• 2004 -- Loscon 31, Swancon 2004, Arisia '04
• 2005 -- Odyssey Con V, CONduit XV
• 2007 -- Norcon 21
• 2008 -- MileHiCon 40, Baycon 2008
• 2009 -- LX, Mythcon 40
• 2010 -- Mythcon 41
• 2011 -- Renovation
• 2011 -- ConDFW X
• 2012 -- Eurocon 34
• 2013 -- Chattacon 38, Bubonicon 45
• 2014 -- FOGcon 2014, Forry Award
• 2016 -- Capclave 2016, Readercon 27

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