![]() ![]() He uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters." (from Wikipedia) Signed by Author. Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories". His 1987 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates ’ unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. "Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power’s classic, Philip K. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. ![]() The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. You wont be just reading about this world you will be in it. Tim Powers writes it like the bastard son of Charles Dickens and William Gibson. The setting is early 19th century London, and the literary world inhabited by Byron, Keats and Shelley. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The plot just gallops along, a new twist and turn on every page. This edition limited to 500 copies, this is a presentation copy signed by the author, by the introducer and the artist. B&W Illustrations First American Trade hardcover edition. ![]() Illustrated by Mark Bilokur (illustrator). ![]()
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