He’s won the World Fantasy Award, the British Science-Fiction Society Award, and other awards with the word “fantasy” in them. But if you aren’t a loyal reader of those kinds of books, you might not know who he is. But you really should!

Tim Powers is the author to turn to if you want to uncover the secret history beneath the truths you think you know. In fiction, a secret history is something like an alternate history, picking the threads of real historical events and spinning them into grand tapestries of conspiracy—all the accepted reasons for any given […]

Tim Powers writes the best twisty, timey-wimey secret histories around, but he doesn’t write them very fast, which is why it’s so exciting to crack open Medusa’s Web, released nearly four years after his last novel, Hide Me Among the Graves. In speculative fiction, readers talk a lot about world-building, that quality that is somewhere near the idea of readability in both […]