Best Selling Books by Tim Powers

This is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of two contemporary authors of fantastic fiction who have frequently collaborated together, which documents every published work by them, and every state of every book or other item (states documented include advanced proofs, deluxe limited, limited, trade hardback, and trade paperback books, for instance). The book also contains appreciations by two of their friends, a remembrance by each author, and biographical information about them and their closest circle of family and friends. This is a must-have reference for all Powers/Blaylock collectors and book dealers.

After Many a Summer, a magisterial new novella from Tim Powers, borrows its title from a line in Tennyson''s famous poem "Tithonus." An elegiac appeal for death on the part of the titular figure from myth, a man who was granted the everlasting life he had originally begged from the gods, only to have their gift turn to ashes in his mouth, only, as Tennyson wrote, to become someone whom "only cruel immortality consumes." What does this have to do with homelessness, troubled movie production companies, kidnapped heiresses, prophecies delivered by taxidermized heads, and a Los Angeles County rendered with such masterful, lived in, bone deep attention to physical detail that to read the opening is to feel the heat from cracked asphalt rising through your shoes and to taste cheap fortified wine grown warm in the sun cloying your tongue? Can all these seemingly disparate things be connected, cohered, clarified? This is a Tim Powers story. Of course they can. Conrad is a down on his luck screenwriter who takes a very strange assignment that leads him to encounter a kidnapped heiress after delivering her ransom--a hundred-year-old mummified head fond of cryptic utterances. Nothing goes Conrad''s way, though, because nothing, no matter how bizarre, is what it seems. Tim Powers is the World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick Award winning author of many novels and stories. His career spans nearly fifty years, and his imagination all of human history. This latest entry is not to be missed.

When Brother Thomas tries sky-fishing from the monastery roof he knows he is breaking the law, but the few risks seem a small price to escape the stifling boredom of his cloistered life. What he doesn''t understand is why his insignificant brush with the law makes him the object of a massive manhunt and triggers off such a dramatic chain of events. Certainly he achieves his aim and finds the excitement he craves - but in the process the lives of everyone around him change as well.

"Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary-- and unpredictable-- adventure. Without warning, Blanzac finds himself traversing a ''circle of discontinuity'' that leads from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957. Caught up in that circle are an ancient Sumerian deity, a forgotten Beat-era poet named Sophie Greenwald, and an apocalyptic cult in search of the key to absolute non-existence" -- from publisher''s web site.

With a mission to help readers become fit to serve God and each other, Coach Tim Powers asks the question directly: Are you, right now, committed to doing everything you can to achieve physical and spiritual fitness for the rest of your life? This book -- a road map for the process -- gives sound instruction on workout basics, body composition, nutrition, and advanced training. Perfect for those just getting started or even experienced athletes, Fit to Serve encourages obedience to God in every step along the way.

Thirty modern masters of fright and fantasy fill this anthology with explorations of both sides of the veil.

Those two madmen, Powers and Blaylock are back, with a recently unearthed and touched up short story thought lost to the ages. "Pilot Light" is vintage William Ashbless, complex to the point of incoherence, with a good eighteen footnotes added by the poet refuting and clarifying the changes made by Powers and Blaylock to his sacred words. Also included in this small form hardcover chapbook are an introduction by Powers and an afterword by Blaylock.

"As this novella begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. These three men, professors in the "Consciousness Research" department at Cal Tech University, have come together to perform a seemingly impossible task. Their goal: to open a door between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and to capture the ghost of the recently deceased scientist Armand Vitrielli. For their own desperate reasons, they hope to avail themselves of the secrets Vitrielli left behind at the time of his death. Their experiment, naturally, fails to come off exactly as planned. A door between the worlds does, in fact, open, letting in something - someone - completely unexpected, and setting in motion a chain of events that will reverberate throughout the narrative."--Amazon

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Frank Rovzar witnesses a political assassination, and is condemned to slavery in the uranium mines of the Orestes system. But Frank eludes his captors and flees to Understreet, a vast subterranean city and a haven for all wanted men. Frank is quickly drawn into Understreet way of life, earning his living as forger, thief, killer. But he never loses sight of his main ambition: to see the rightful government restored.

Conflicts of interestare more likely to occur in regional communities where there are smaller numbers of practising solicitors; parties are more likely to be known to each other and past dealings with others in the community are more likely to have occurred. This, together with the merging of law firms and the growth in specialisation, contributes to and compounds the impacts. This report examines how conflicts of interest are managed in rural and regional settings and their impact on practitioners and clients. It also explores strategies and makes recommendations on how to improve the current situation.

A new short story chapbook published as a signed limited edition.