Tim Powers - Free Library Land Online - LGBT https://lgbt.library.land/ ru Tim Powers - Free Library Land Online - LGBT DataLife Engine The Anubis Gates https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47683-the_anubis_gates.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47683-the_anubis_gates.html The Anubis Gates
The Anubis Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure.]]> Sat, 22 Oct 1983 06:49:51 +0300 On Stranger Tides https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3193-on_stranger_tides.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3193-on_stranger_tides.html 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 seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters–for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king, Blackbeard, and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth. ]]> Wed, 10 Jun 1987 18:15:18 +0400 Alternate Routes https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47687-alternate_routes.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47687-alternate_routes.html Alternate Routes
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 Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade. Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy, and a woman who makes her living costumed as Supergirl on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Theater, Vickery learns what legendary hell it is that the desert highway leads to—and when Castine deliberately drives into it to save him from capture, he must enter it himself to get her out.]]> Mon, 22 Oct 2018 06:49:52 +0300 The Stress of Her Regard https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47691-the_stress_of_her_regard.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47691-the_stress_of_her_regard.html The Stress of Her Regard
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this long-awaited tale of passion and terror is finally back in print after more than 20 years.]]> Sun, 22 Oct 1989 06:49:53 +0300 Three Days to Never: A Novel https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47686-three_days_to_never_a_novel.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47686-three_days_to_never_a_novel.html Three Days to Never: A Novel
Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific discoveries made possible the creation of the most terrible weapon the world had ever known. But he made another discovery that he chose to reveal to no one—to keep from human hands a power that dwarfed the atomic bomb.
When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her recently deceased grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank, realize what they now have in their possession. In an instant they are thrust into the center of a world-altering conspiracy, drawing the dangerous attentions of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists. Now father and daughter have three days to learn the rules of a terrifying magical chess game in order to escape a fate more profound than death—because the Marritys hold the key to the ultimate destruction of not only what's to come . . . but what already has been.]]> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:49:52 +0300 Expiration Date https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47695-expiration_date.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47695-expiration_date.html Expiration Date
Nebula Award Finalist: In the second book of the Fault Lines Trilogy, Tim Powers dazzles with a dark and extraordinary urban fantasy set in an otherworldly LA, as a young boy finds himself targeted by malevolent ghost hunters There is a Los Angeles that few people can see, a shadowed metropolis of ghosts, ghost hunters, and ghost junkies who crave the addictive rush of inhaled spirits. When eleven-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas decides to flee the constrictive grasp of his New Age parents, he inadvertently steps into this world. Escaping with his parents’ most prized possession, Koot is soon the object of the most intense supernatural manhunt in history. On an ordinary day, Los Angeles can be treacherous; this “other” LA could prove downright fatal for an unsuspecting youngster who’s suddenly the target of every hungry ghost hunter prowling the City of Angels. But Koot will not be taken easily. And though not everyone racing to Koot’s side means him harm, they are greatly outnumbered by malevolent forces driven by a terrible, undeniable need. Expiration Date is the second book in the Fault Lines Trilogy, which begins with Last Call and concludes with Earthquake Weather. At once exhilarating and terrifying, this book is a bravura display of the brilliant, bold invention that has moved bestselling author Peter Straub to declare World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers “one of my absolute favorite writers.”]]> Sun, 22 Oct 1995 06:49:53 +0200 Forsake the Sky https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47692-forsake_the_sky.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47692-forsake_the_sky.html Forsake the Sky
In a time when Earth's interplanetary Empire is crumbling . . .
On a world where technology has begun to fail . . .
When the rightful ruler of the planet has been deposed by renegades . . .
One young man embodies the spirit of survival.
Frank Rovzar has seen his father murdered most foully in a palace coup. Escaping the deadly Transports he flees to the only safe place he can think of: Munson Underground, the city beneath the surface of the planet, den of thieves and haven of the damned.
Rovzar has only two goals. The first is survival. The second is vengeance. He will have both, he vows, and he embarks on a course that will see him rise from the dregs of society to the very pinnacle of power.
]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Dinner at Deviant's Palace https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47694-dinner_at_deviants_palace.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47694-dinner_at_deviants_palace.html Dinner at Deviant's Palace
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cult In the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official’s daughter and Gregorio’s first love, from Jaybush’s sinister clutches. To do so, the redeemer reborn must face blood-sucking hemogoblins and other monstrosities on his way to discovering the ultimate secrets of this neo-Californian civilization. One of the most ingeniously imaginative writers of our time, Tim Powers dazzles in an early work that displays his unique creative genius. Alive with wit, intelligence, and wild invention, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace is a mad adventure across a dystopian future as only Tim Powers could have imagined it.]]> Tue, 22 Oct 1985 06:49:53 +0300 Earthquake Weather https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47690-earthquake_weather.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47690-earthquake_weather.html Earthquake Weather
In the final book of the Fault Lines Trilogy, the race is on to resurrect the murdered Fisher King of the American West and save the life of his successor from supernatural enemies Scott Crane, the Fisher King of the American West, is dead, killed by a possessed Janis Cordelia Plumtree. Crane’s lifeless but uncorrupted body now lies in state at the Solville apartment complex, protected from spirits and dark magic by powerful charms and watched over by Pete and Angelica Sullivan. The Sullivans’ adopted son, Koot Hoomie, is Crane’s most likely successor. But Koot is only thirteen years old, and unprepared to assume the magical role for which he is destined. The most advantageous path would be to revive the dead king, but that will require the cooperation of the young woman who killed him, and the aid of a newly widowed winemaker touched by the god Dionysus. And with the evil supernatural opposition massing powerfully all around them, continued death seems far more likely than Crane’s resurrection.

Earthquake Weather concludes the astonishing Fault Lines Trilogy, which also includes Expiration Date and *Last Call. *]]> Wed, 22 Oct 1997 06:49:52 +0300 Last Call https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47689-last_call.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47689-last_call.html Last Call
Set in Las Vegas, Last Call concerns the fate of Scott Crane, former professional gambler, recent widower, blind in one eye--and also the lost natural son of the man who is determined to kill him. In this novel, Crane is forced to resume the high-stakes game of a lifetime--and wager it all.]]> Thu, 22 Oct 1992 06:49:52 +0200 Strange Itineraries https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47688-strange_itineraries.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47688-strange_itineraries.html Strange Itineraries
Ghosts, accidental time travel, a secret clan of immortals, and Maxwell's Demon are all subjects in this complete collection of short stories by Tim Powers. Elusive and evocative, these stories are excursions into strange and dangerous worlds and are as colorful and inventive as Powers's novels. A pioneer of the popular "Steampunk" genre of speculative fiction, his complex and tightly researched "secret histories" blend with compelling fantastical elements to create some of today's most memorable modern science fiction. Contents
“Itinerary”
“Night Moves”
“Pat Moore”
“The Way Down the Hill”
“Through and Through”
“Where They Are Hid”
“Fifty Cents”
“The Better Boy”
“We Traverse Afar”]]> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 06:49:52 +0300 The Drawing of the Dark https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3190-the_drawing_of_the_dark.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3190-the_drawing_of_the_dark.html The Drawing of the Dark
When Brian Duffy, an ageing soldier of fortune, is recruited in Venice by a strange old man to work as a bouncer in Vienna at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer is brewed, everything seems straightforward. But his journey is far from it. Pursued and attacked from all sides, guarded and guided by creatures of myth, Duffy is no sooner in Vienna than the city is besieged by the turkish armies if Suleiman. And it becomes apparent that Duffy's presence is no accident and that it is up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the dark. . . ]]> Sun, 10 Jun 1979 18:14:48 +0300 The Skies Discrowned and an Epitaph in Rust: The Complete Novels https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47682-the_skies_discrowned_and_an_epitaph_in_rust_the_complete_novels.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/47682-the_skies_discrowned_and_an_epitaph_in_rust_the_complete_novels.html The Skies Discrowned and an Epitaph in Rust: The Complete Novels
A special two-in-one edition by World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers, featuring The Skies Discrowned,about an oppressed universe in the violent throes of political revolt, and An Epitaph in Rust, which carries the reader to a future California rife with dark conspiracies and Shakespearean-caliber plots At the start of his celebrated career—before his widespread acclamation as one of the most original contemporary fantasists in America—Tim Powers published a pair of exciting science fiction adventures. Long considered lost classics, these two novels were early indications that a true master had arrived on the science fiction/fantasy scene. In The Skies Discrowned, a young artist and swordsman becomes a political criminal, marked for death after witnessing an assassination. Francisco Rovzar’s strange odyssey through his planet’s lawless underworld and his transformation from naïve young boy to hardened freedom fighter is an intriguing adventure with action on every page.

An Epitaph in Rust unfolds in a grim future Los Angeles, following a young man who escapes a bleak life of servitude in a monastery. Hunted for a seemingly insignificant transgression in a city driven mad by the mayor’s explosive destruction and the subsequent murderous rampage of the android police, young Thomas finds refuge with a troupe of actors who have more than Shakespeare on their minds.]]> Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:49:51 +0300 Declare https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3191-declare.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-powers/3191-declare.html 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 haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark. ]]> Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:14:57 +0300