Tim Powers is the oldest child in a large Irish Catholic family. His father worked as a lawyer but left his job and the family moved to California in 1959. The new environment influences Tim Powers to this day - many of his works reflect the country and he is very reluctant to think back to the coldness of the old place of residence.
At the age of eleven he was so fascinated by Heinlein's Der Rote Planet that his enthusiasm for the fantastic grew immeasurably. When he was thirteen, he tried his hand at writing his own stories that magazines rejected. In Fullerton attended Powers College and University, where he met James Blaylock and KW Jeter . As a result of the poetic efforts of Blaylock and himself, William Ashbless was "born" - a fictional poet who appeared in a variety of works by the two of them and under whose name even his own books have been published.
Another important influence was Powers' neighbor Philip K. Dick, with whom he enjoyed a long friendship until his death.
With The Skies discrowned 1976 Powers' first novel. He gained worldwide attention with the masterpiece The Gates to Anubis Empire , which became the forerunner of an entire fantasy direction. Other outstanding books are gambling in Las Vegas and TS Eliot's The Waste Land inspired Last Call and the spy thriller Declare in which the events surrounding the Cambridge spy ring are seen in a new light. In his last novel Three Days to Never , among others, Einstein, his unknown daughter, Chaplin and various secret services appear in the fight for a weapon with devastating effects.
Powers has received the World Fantasy Award , the Philip K. Dick Award and the Locus Award several times . However, so far only a small part of his books have been published in Germany; of the Fault Lines trilogy only the third part has been published in German so far.
Powers lives with his wife Serena in San Bernardino, Southern California .
