Tim Powers - Bibliography - Novels

Novels

The Skies Discrowned (1976)

Also published as Forsake The Sky: a science fiction adventure novel.

An Epitaph in Rust (1976)

Also published as Epitaph in Rust. The publisher's cover blurb describes a tale that "follows young Thomas from his escape from a rural monastery into the wilds of a future Los Angeles. There he joins a theater company where the play is definitely not the thing - revolution is - and he finds himself in the middle of it. The mayor has been blown up and his android guards are determined to end insurrection. But the theater company has other ideas..."

The Drawing of the Dark (1979)

The siege of Vienna was actually a struggle between Muslim and Christian magicians over the spiritual center of the West, which happens to be a small inn and brewery in Vienna. The "dark" is a beer that has been brewing for centuries, which the Fisher King will eventually drink.

The Anubis Gates (1983)

Philip K. Dick Award winner, 1983; Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1984; BSFA nominee, 1985

A time travel story set mostly in 1810, featuring a brainwashed Lord Byron, magic, Egyptian gods and a werewolf.

Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985)

Philip K. Dick Award winner, and Nebula Award nominee, 1985

Unusually for Powers, this is set in the future, in a postatomic America in which an extraterrestrial psychic vampire is slowly taking over.

In 2001 the group Cradle of Filth released a song entitled "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" that was simply the Lord's Prayer backmasked.

On Stranger Tides (1987)

Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1988

Set in the 18th century Caribbean; with pirates (many of them real characters, primarily Blackbeard, as well as a fictional protagonist named Jack), voodoo, zombies, Juan Ponce de Leon, and a strangely quantum-mechanical Fountain of Youth. In September 2009, Tim Powers confirmed that Disney optioned the novel around April 2007, in order to incorporate elements of it into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, released on May 20, 2011.

The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1990 and winner of the 1990 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

Concerning the dealings of the Romantic poets – Byron and Shelley are major characters – with vampire-like beings from Greek mythology.

Fault Lines series

Last Call (1992)

Locus Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards winner, 1993

A professional poker player finds out that he lost far more than he won in a poker game played with Tarot cards two decades ago.

Expiration Date (1995)

World Fantasy Award nominee, 1996; 1996 Nebula Award nominee

A boy possessed by the spirit of Thomas Edison is hunted through Los Angeles by people wanting to consume the ghost he carries.

Earthquake Weather (1997)

BSFA Award nominee, 1997; Locus Fantasy Award winner, 1998

Sequel to both Last Call and Expiration Date, involving the characters of both: two fugitives from a psychiatric hospital, the magical nature of multiple personality disorder, and the secret history of wine production in California.

Declare (2001)

World Fantasy Award winner and Locus Fantasy nominee, 2001; 2001 Nebula Award nominee,

A Cold War espionage thriller which evokes Lovecraftian horror and the work of John le Carré, involving Kim Philby, djinn and the Ark on Mount Ararat.

Powers of Two (2004)

Re-release of Skies Discrowned and Epitaph in Rust.

Three Days to Never (2006)

Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 2007

Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

His newest novel, published on March 13, 2012. A sequel of sorts to The Stress of Her Regard, it involves the Rossetti family and John Crawford, the son of the protagonist from The Stress of Her Regard.