Author · born 1952
Tim Powers
Tim Powers is an American science fiction writer and actor (born 1952). Born in Buffalo.
Our catalogue lists 7 books by Tim Powers, mostly historical fantasy, occult fiction and steampunk. They span 1981 to 2010. The most-read is The Stress of Her Regard (1989).
Books by Tim Powers
The Stress of Her Regard
Tim Powers
The Anubis Gates
Tim Powers
Last Call
Tim Powers
On Stranger Tides
Tim Powers
The Sorcerer's House
Gene Wolfe, Dirk Berger
Expiration Date
Tim Powers
The Drawing of the Dark
Tim Powers
Awards
- ✦Nebula Awards 2002 — Best Novel, Declare (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1997 — Best Novel, Expiration Date (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1986 — Best Novel, Dinner at Deviant's Palace (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2018 — Best Collection, Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (nominee)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2012 — Best Collection, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (winner)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2012 — Best Short Fiction, A Journey of Only Two Paces (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2001 — Best Novel, Declare (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1996 — Best Novel, Expiration Date (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1996 — Best Novella, Where They Are Hid (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1993 — Best Novel, Last Call (nominee)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 1993 — Overall (winner)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1992 — Best Short Fiction, The Better Boy (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1990 — Best Novel, The Stress of Her Regard (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1988 — Best Novel, On Stranger Tides (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1987 — Best Novella, Night Moves (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Fantasy Novel, My Brother's Keeper (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Novella, After Many a Summer (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2019 — Best Novelette, The Governor (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Collection, Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Fantasy Novel, Medusa's Web (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2013 — Best Fantasy Novel, Hide Me Among the Graves (nominee)
- 🏆Locus Awards 2012 — Best Collection, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (winner)
- 🏆Locus Awards 2012 — Overall (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2009 — Best Novelette, The Hour of Babel (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2007 — Best Fantasy Novel, Three Days to Never (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2007 — Best Novelette, A Soul in a Bottle (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2006 — Best Collection, Strange Itineraries (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2005 — Best Novelette, Pat Moore (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2002 — Best Collection, Night Moves and Other Stories (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2001 — Best Fantasy Novel, Declare (nominee)
Biography
**Tim Powers** is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.