Biografia

29 de fevereiro de 1952 · Buffalo, Nova Iorque, EUA

Timothy Thomas Powers

Neighbor and friend of Philip K. Dick.

Powers is famous for his knotty plots, his remarkable erudition, his exhaustive research into historical detail (every one of which, evidently, finds a home in his fiction), his specializing in the Romantic Poets and Arthuriana, his ebullient capacity for writing fantasy, science fiction, and horror - but is most loved because he creates totally believable characters and suspenseful, truly WEIRD action-adventure.

Novel, 'Last Call', was optioned by FreakShowFilms in 2000.

I suppose that what September 11th did was not so much change how we think of the world or humanity as remind us of a lot of things we already knew about humanity. (We could have done without the reminder.) It reminds us that any time of peace and prosperity is a fortunate exception to the way the machinery ordinarily works, and in retrospect it makes you appreciate that time.

Compared to fantasy, science fiction is almost a branch of mainstream. Fantasy is based on things that are logically impossible, going in directions that apparently can't exist. Let's say mainstream fiction would be a straight, one-dimension high-speed highway rushing along between trees. Fantasy is more like a perpendicular look down a corridor of trees to a clearing. It's rotating 90°, it's a fresh dimension - and it's that perpendicular look, that dislocation or vertigo or disorientation that's the fun. It doesn't so much matter what's in the clearing over there, whether it's a unicorn or Cthulhu; it's the fact of the new dimension. The attraction of fantasy is experiencing the impossible as real, but we wouldn't bother to do it if there wasn't a kind of resonance that happens in our heads too, if there wasn't this wiring in our heads that, like an induction coil, picks up a current from it. There has to be a response in the reader's head, which implies that Jungian archetypes are in some sense real.