Tim Powers

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Vickery and Castine

1 - Alternate Routes (Aug-2018)
2 - Forced Perspectives (Mar-2020)
3 - Stolen Skies (Jan-2022)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • The Drawing of the Dark

    TOO MANY LEGENDS Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brew...

  • Anubis Gates

    An ancient Egyptian sorcerer whose powerful magic can change the history of the entire world! A modern millionaire with a sinister plan, who journeys back to England in 1810! A werewolf who switches bodies--then kills his victims to keep his id...

  • Dinner at Deviant's Palace

    A generation after the bombs wiped out Los Angeles (along with most of the rest of the world) survivors have trickled back to set up life in the ruins. Times are hard. People take whatever solace they can--from each other, from new drugs, from perver...

  • Forsake the Sky

  • On Stranger Tides

    Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafari...

  • The Stress of Her Regard

    World Fantasy Award Winner Michael Crawford is forced to flee when discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed. Yet it is not the revengeful townspeople he fears but the deadly embrace of the malignant spirit that is claiming him as he...

  • Last Call

    A lifetime ago, dark magic destroyed the Fisher King "Bugsy" Siegel...and a new lord arose to rule the Las Vegas wasteland. Twenty years ago, one-eyed gambler Scott Crane lost his body and soul in a bizarre floating card game in the middle of Lake...

  • Where They Are Hid

  • Expiration Date

    Los Angeles is filled with ghosts--and. half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies--chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and beco...



  • Earthquake Weather

    A young woman possessed by a ghost has slain the Fisher King of the West, Scott Crane. Now, temporarily freed from that malevolent spirit, she seeks to restore the King to life. But Crane's body has been taken to the magically protected home of Pe...

  • Frank Kelly Freas As He Sees It

    With 10 Hugos as Best Professional Artist and countless other awards, Kelly Freas is the most popular and prolific science fiction artist today. His gritty, realistic work in the 1950s set a new agenda for magazine and book covers--which artists foll...

  • Declare

    As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunte...

  • Night Moves and Other Stories

  • What If Our World Is Their Heaven? The Final Conversations O

  • Powers of Two

  • Strange Itineraries

    Strange Itineraries takes you on an unforgettable excursion into the strange and dangerous worlds of Tim Powers. Vengeful and cooperative spirits, mutant tomatoes, and the ever-mysterious Ether Bunnies roam these pages, treading paths both frightenin...

  • The Bible Repairman

    In California, a secret magical underground exists. Souls of the dead haunt electronic equipment. Bibles are cleansed of offending verses, and the blood of murderers stills the whispers of the dead. But, as always in Powers, magic comes at a price. W...

  • Three Days to Never

    When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new ...

  • Double Cross



  • A Soul in a Bottle

    A first edition of a 1968 book of poems, with a sonnet that appears in no other copy -- a mysterious girl with a special fountain-pen, who needs a special favor -- and an old woman who warns used-book dealer George Sydney that helping the girl he's f...

  • Pilot Light

    Those two madmen, Powers and Blaylock are back, with a recently unearthed and touched up short story thought lost to the ages. "Pilot Light" is vintage William Ashbless, complex to the point of incoherence, with a good eighteen footnotes added by the...

  • The Bible Repairman and Other Stories

    2012 World Fantasy Award Winner In his first new collection since 2005, Tim Powers, the master of the secret history, delves into the mysteries of souls, whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable b...

  • Salvage and Demolition

    Salvage and Demolition, the astonishing new 21,000 word novella by Tim Powers, begins when Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary...

  • Hide Me Among the Graves

    London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier. Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. McKee has learned...

  • On Pirates

    The first in Subterranean Press' plans to bring to light some unduly neglected works by noted poet William Ashbless, this new chapbook contains “Slouching Toward Mauritius,” a piratical short story written more than 25 years ago but never publish...

  • Nobody's Home

    For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, The Anubis Gates. Tracking the murderer of her fiancee through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky...

  • Medusa's Web

    From the award-winning author of Hide Me Among the Graves, Last Call, Declare, and Three Days to Never, a phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover occult secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his ...

  • Down and Out in Purgatory

    What do you do if the man you've vowed to kill dies before you can kill him? In college, Tom Holbrook worshipped Shasta DiMaio from afar, but she married the arrogant John Atwater -- and Atwater eventually murdered her. All that's left for Tom ...

  • Alternate Routes

    Vickery and Castine - 1

    A modern ghost story as only Tim Powers can write it. Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways--phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway--and Sebastian Vicke...



  • More Walls Broken

    As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is ...

  • Forced Perspectives

    Vickery and Castine - 2

    A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HAUNTED LOS ANGELESWhy did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh’s Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernat...

  • The Properties of Rooftop Air

    Tim Powers makes a triumphant return to the setting of The Anubis Gates with a tale that features the beggar clown Horrabin, and one who opposes him.In the slum known as the St. Giles rookery in 19th century London, the beggar guild run by Horrabin t...

  • Stolen Skies

    Vickery and Castine - 3

    ROGUE AGENTS SWEPT UP IN THE SEARCH FOR AN ANCIENT RELIC IN A UFO NOVEL AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT!Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have—and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders h...

  • After Many A Summer

    After Many a Summer, a magisterial new novella from Tim Powers, borrows its title from a line in Tennyson's famous poem Tithonus. An elegiac appeal for death on the part of the titular figure from myth, a man who was granted the everlasting life he h...

  • My Brother's Keeper

    THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONTË SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT.This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so wel...

Award-Winning Books by Tim Powers

Anubis Gates
1984 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories
2012 Locus Award -- Collection
2012 World Fantasy Award -- Collection
Declare
2001 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Dinner at Deviant's Palace
1986 Philip K. Dick Award -- Novel
Earthquake Weather
1998 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Expiration Date
1996 Locus Award -- Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Last Call
1993 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
1993 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Powers has published 35 books.

Tim Powers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, My Brother's Keeper, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark, was published in June 1979.

Yes. Tim Powers has 1 series.
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