One of the first red flags in an author's prose is how often they use 'almost', 'seemed' or worst of all 'almost seemed' in their descriptions and metaphors. In that spirit, I thought I'd check out this award-winning early piece of Steampunk. So, it behooves an author to get some familiarity with the genre he intends to work in, to ensure that he isn't just writing the same old story over again. They end up retreading old ground and relying on long-dead cliches because they aren't aware of what's already been done. He also taught part time at the University of Redlands.Ī fairly common mistake made by authors is failing to be familiar with their genre.
He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop. Powers and his wife, Serena, currently live in Muscoy, California. Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts where his friend, Blaylock, is Director of the Creative Writing Department. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages. Powers's first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates, which won the Philip K. Dick the character named "David" in Dick's novel VALIS is based on Powers and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) is dedicated to him. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.Īnother friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Jeter, both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "steampunks" in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. He studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, where he first met James Blaylock and K.W.
Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in California, where his Roman Catholic family moved in 1959. Most of Powers's novels are "secret histories": 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. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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