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Timothy Thomas Powers è uno scrittore statunitense di romanzi di fantascienza e fantasy.

La maggior parte delle storie di Powers si basa su avvenimenti o personaggi storici in cui l'autore inserisce elementi occulti o soprannaturali.

Powers è cresciuto in California da una famiglia cattolica. Ha studiato letteratura inglese alla California State University di Fullerton dove per la prima volta incontrò James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter. I tre sono rimasti buoni amici anche dopo il college e hanno talvolta lavorato insieme. Durante tale periodo Powers conobbe e diventò amico del grande scrittore Philip K. Dick tanto che il personaggio di "David" nel romanzo di Dick Valis si basa appunto su Powers.

La prima opera di Powers a riscuotere un certo successo fu Il Re Pescatore nel 1979 ma l'opera che lo fece conoscere al grande pubblico fu Le porte di Anubis , vincitore del premio Philip K. Dick e tradotto in numerose lingue.

Attualmente vive con la moglie, Serena, a Muscoy in California. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Febbraio 1952
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Tim Powers frasi celebri

“Ho desiderato diventare uno scrittore dalla prima volta che ho letto un libro. Ricordo che era un libro per bambini, Timothy la Tartaruga, e mi sono detto che scrivere era la cosa più bella che una persona potesse fare! Poi, a quindici anni, la rivista Fantasy & SF pubblicò un editoriale nel quale si spiegava come fare per proporre un racconto. Ne scrissi subito uno e lo inviai… Ovviamente fu respinto. Però non ci rimasi male, in fondo anche Hemingway si era visto rifiutare alcuni dei suoi lavori! Quindi, da allora, non ho più smesso.”

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“Penso che sia cruciale evocare immagini. Nella fantascienza e nella fantasy… o in qualsiasi altro tipo di fiction, il lettore deve essere indotto a credere che quegli eventi immaginari stiano realmente accadendo a quei personaggi immaginari; quindi lo scrittore deve fare in modo che l'intera cosa appaia il più possibile reale. Ciò significa far sì che il lettore ne conosca l'aspetto, i suoni, i profumi! Lo scrittore deve raffigurare tutto questo in maniera assolutamente precisa… direi, quasi, che debba sperimentarlo! Per poi riversare questa sua 'esperienza' sul lettore.”

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“Quello che io vorrei ottenere con i miei libri è provocare nel lettore quel senso di raggelante vertigine che un libro che parla di cose soprannaturali può infondere. Che si creda o meno alla magia, il nostro cervello è ancora troppo statico per riuscire a disquisire di spettri o di cose bizzarre. Quindi, personalmente, nei miei libri cerco di trattare la magia in modo che sembri 'realistica'. Cerco di basarmi su miti che la gente, più o meno, un tempo conosceva, e cerco di fare in modo che i miei personaggi si comportino come farebbero le persone reali se essa esistesse davvero. Nel contempo cerco di evitare di trasformarla in qualcosa di ultra-tecnologico… proprio per mantenere intatto quel brivido che voglio che il lettore sperimenti, è piuttosto una sorta di trasgressione all'ordine naturale delle cose.”

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Tim Powers: Frasi in inglese

“Your policy here, and in all the Arab states, has been to get out as much oil as you could, before the indigenous peoples looked around and noticed that they were living in the twentieth century.”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (pp. 184-185)

“He felt as if someone far away below in the darkness was chipping away at the pillars of his mind, and the steady crack…crack…crack of it was the only sound in the universe.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 9 (p. 129)

“When they’d gone the old man turned around to watch the sun’s slow descent. The Boat of Millions of Years, he thought; the boat of the dying sungod Ra, tacking down the western sky to the source of the dark river that runs through the underworld from west to east, through the twelve hours of the night, at the far eastern end of which the boat will tomorrow reappear, bearing a once again youthful, newly reignited sun.
Or, he thought bitterly, removed from us by a distance the universe shouldn’t even be able to encompass, it’s a vast motionless globe of burning gas, around which this little ball of a planet rolls like a pellet of dung propelled by a kephera beetle. Take your pick, he told himself as he started slowly down the hill…But be willing to die for your choice.”

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Tim Powers libro The Anubis Gates

Origine: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 1 (pp. 3-4)

“You protect the ones you love. He clung to the thought. Even if they ignorantly resent you for it.”

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A Time To Cast Away Stones (p. 126)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Work out your own damnation,” he said breathlessly, “in fear and trembling.”

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Origine: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 114 (parodying Philippians 2.12) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A12&version=KJV

“It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 34 (p. 253)

““You ever notice, Joe,” he asked, mechanically picking up the mug, “that it always takes a little more trouble to get something than the thing was really worth?”
Joe considered it. “Better than taking a lot of trouble and getting nothing.”
Dundee sipped the coffee. He didn’t seem to have heard Joe. “There’s so much weariness and fatigue in it all. For every action there is an equal… stupefaction. No, that might be bearable—it’s greater than the action.””

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Tim Powers libro The Anubis Gates

Origine: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 14 (p. 342)

“The church has become a more…exclusive club since the founder’s day, it’s clear. No doubt the Devil is more hospitable.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 10 (p. 129)

“People in 1900 didn’t think that radium could hurt you, just carrying a chip of it in your pocket like a lucky rock, and then one day their legs fell off and they died of cancer. Not believing something is no help if you turn out to be wrong.”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 28)

““There’s something you should know about me.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t know, but you should know it.””

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Origine: Down and Out in Purgatory (2016), p. 100

“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)

“All wrong. The words seemed in this moment to describe Hale’s whole life.”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 7 (p. 182)

“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Interlude “Summer, 1818” (p. 170)
The Stress of Her Regard (1989)

“Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.”

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Tim Powers libro The Stress of Her Regard

Origine: The Stress of Her Regard (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 285; quoting from the journal of Edward Williams)

“I’m really willing to try to believe you’re not crazy, but you gotta help me a little, you know?”

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Tim Powers libro Last Call

Origine: Last Call (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 374)

“By the dim yellow glow of the overhead bulb, Lepidopt stared at the bomb and the time machine, and he tried to imagine what might go wrong.”

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 27 (p. 377)

“He always had to use holy water—real holy water, from gallon jugs he filled from the silver urn at St. Anne’s—but though it impressed the customers, all he could see that it actually did was get stuff wet.”

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The Bible Repairman (p. 2)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

“Bradshaw sighed and swallowed, feeling the volatile coldness in his throat and trying to remember what tequila tasted like. Pepper and turpentine, as far as he could recall.”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 40 (p. 312)

“Sukie had always said that the Alice books were the Old and New Testaments for ghosts—which Pete had never understood; after all, Lewis Carroll hadn’t been dead yet when he’d written them.”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 6 (p. 44)

“Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans’ error.”

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Tim Powers libro The Anubis Gates

Origine: The Anubis Gates (1983), Chapter 15 (p. 370)

“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”

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Tim Powers libro Declare

Origine: Declare (2001), Chapter 10 (p. 285)

““And you’ve never married.”
“I don’t know any women well enough to hate ’em that much.””

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The Hour of Babel (p. 61)
Short fiction, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (2011)

““That’s me, that old guy, that old drunk guy! Who claimed he was my dad? Like, me from the future?”
“One future, not the future. There isn’t any the future.””

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 22 (p. 313)

“Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.”

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Tim Powers libro The Drawing of the Dark

Origine: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 183)

“This is very pretty,” said Elizalde…
“It’s morbid,” snapped Sullivan. “Burying a bunch of dead bodies, and putting a fancy marker over each one so the survivors will know where to go and cry. What if the markers got rearranged? You’d be weeping over some stranger. Not some stranger, even, some cast-off dead body of a stranger, like a pile of fingernail clippings or old shoes, or the dust from inside an electric razor. What’s the difference between coming out here to think about dead Uncle Irving, and thinking about him in your own living room? Okay, here you can sit on the grass and be only six feet above his inert old body. Would it be better if you could dig a hole, and sit only one foot above it?” He was shaking. “Everybody should be cremated, and the ashes should be tossed in the sea with no fanfare at all.”
“It’s a sign of respect,” said Elizalde angrily. “And it’s a real, tangible link. Think of the Shroud of Turin! Where would we be if they had cremated Jesus?”

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Tim Powers libro Expiration Date

“I don’t know—we’d have the Ashtray of Turin.”
Origine: Expiration Date (1995), Chapter 40 (p. 308; ellipsis represents a minor elision of description)

“I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.”

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Part 1, Chapter 8 (p. 141)
Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)

“We’re going to have a séance. Oren, open the whisky, if you would, and pour each of us a full glass.”

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Tim Powers libro Three Days to Never

“First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte.
Origine: Three Days to Never (2006), Chapter 24 (p. 339)

“Where’s the sane world?”

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Castine asked as she followed him around to the front of the Saturn. “I used to live there. I think I still have pictures.”
Origine: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 13, “Would You Prevent God?” (p. 230)

“Guesses based on guesses are of no value.”

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Origine: Forced Perspectives (2020), Chapter 2, “A Lot of M&Ms and Cigarettes” (p. 43)

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