![]() ![]() Since I have thankfully lost that sonnet, I must explain again what Powers showed me, and I think it’s best to get my readers into my mindset at the time wherein I creased the spine of Declare. To my pleasure, Powers responded in kind, and then many members of the group likewise wrote sonnets. Years ago I explained how this came to be in a (fairly embarrassing - I had just begun to practice the form) sonnet to Powers in an email fan group. My own introduction to Powers’s work was in 2000, with Declare, and that novel shook my sensibilities and attitudes regarding the fantasy genre down to their foundations. ![]() Finally, for whatever reasons, Disney Studios optioned his 1987 novel On Stranger Tides for its Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same name - I guess the studio simply wanted the title, for, though I have not seen it myself, the rumor is that it (predictably) has nothing to do with the book. ![]() He also has been credited with inventing, with The Anubis Gates (1983), the steampunk genre - though Powers’s friend James Blaylock shares some of this regard, for his The Digging Leviathan (1984). The most obvious cause for his celebrity is that twice he has won the World Fantasy Award for best novel ( Last Call, 1992, and Declare, 2000). Tim Powers is my most favorite living novelist. Baen Books covers by Todd Lockwood and Adam Burn Alternate Routes (2018) and Forced Perspectives (2020). ![]()
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