Editing Tim Powers (section)

{{Short description|American science fiction and fantasy author (born 1952)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Tim Powers
| image            = SFeraKon Kontakt Eurocon Tim Powers 2804201 39 roberta f.jpg
| caption          = Powers celebrating his 61st birthday in 2013
| pseudonym        = William Ashbless (joint)
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1952|2|29}}
| birth_place      = [[Buffalo, New York]], U.S.
| education        = [[California State University, Fullerton]]
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| spouse           = Serena Batsford
| occupation       = Writer
| period           = 1976–present
| genre            = [[Adventure fiction]], [[speculative fiction]]
| subject          = 
| movement         = [[Steampunk]]
| website          = {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTimPowers/}}
}}
[[File:Tim Powers.jpg|thumb|Powers at the annual [[ICon festival]], a fan convention in Israel, October 2005]]
[[Image:Ikon-Powers.jpg|250px|thumb|right| Powers in the "Koloseum" at ICon 2005]]
'''Timothy Thomas Powers''' (born February 29, 1952)<ref>"WonderCon Special Guests," ''Comic-Con Magazine'' (Winter 2010), p. 20.</ref> is an American [[science fiction]] and [[fantasy fiction|fantasy]] author. His first major novel was ''[[The Drawing of the Dark]]'' (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was ''[[The Anubis Gates]]'' (1983), which won the [[Philip K. Dick Award]], and has since been published in many other languages. His other written work include ''[[Dinner at Deviant's Palace]]'' (1985), ''[[Last Call (novel)|Last Call]]'' (1992), ''[[Expiration Date (Powers novel)|Expiration Date]]'' (1996), ''[[Earthquake Weather (novel)|Earthquake Weather]]'' (1997), ''[[Declare]]'' (2000), and ''[[Three Days to Never]]'' (2006). Powers has won the [[World Fantasy Award]] twice for his critically acclaimed novels ''Last Call'' and ''Declare''. His 1987 novel ''[[On Stranger Tides]]'' served as inspiration for the ''[[Monkey Island (series)|Monkey Island]]'' franchise of video games and was partly adapted into the [[Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides|fourth ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film]].<ref name=":0" />

Several of Powers' novels depict historical events being influenced by occult or supernatural factors. Regarding his 2001 novel ''Declare'', Powers stated, "I made it an ironclad rule that I could not change or disregard any of the recorded facts, nor rearrange any days of the calendar – and then I tried to figure out what momentous but unrecorded fact could explain them all."<ref>[http://www.powells.com/authors/powers.html Powells.com Interviews – Tim Powers<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010627162405/http://www.powells.com/authors/powers.html |date=2001-06-27 }}</ref>