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Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952)〔"WonderCon Special Guests," ''Comic-Con Magazine'' (Winter 2010), p. 20.〕 is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels ''Last Call'' and ''Declare''. His 1988 novel ''On Stranger Tides'' served as inspiration for the ''Monkey Island'' franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film. Most of Powers' novels are "secret histories": he uses actual, documented historical events featuring famous people, but shows another view of them in which occult or supernatural factors heavily influence the motivations and actions of the characters. Typically, Powers strictly adheres to established historical facts. He reads extensively on a given subject, and the plot develops as he notes inconsistencies, gaps and curious data; regarding his 2000 novel ''Declare'', he stated,〔(Powells.com Interviews – Tim Powers )〕 ==Life and career== He was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied English Literature at Cal State Fullerton, and earned his B.A. in 1976.〔http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/art/Begovich%202011-12/2012_Steampunk.html〕 It was there that he first met James Blaylock and K. W. Jeter, both of whom remained close friends and occasional collaborators; the trio have half-seriously referred to themselves as "steampunks"〔''Nova Express'', Volume 6, Number 1, "An Interview with Tim Powers", p. 9.〕 in contrast to the prevailing cyberpunk genre of the 1980s. Powers and Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless while they were at Cal State Fullerton.〔http://www.dailytitan.com/2010/11/10/tim-powers/〕 Another friend Powers first met during this period was noted science fiction writer Philip K. Dick; the character named "David" in Dick's novel ''VALIS'' is based on Powers. When ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' was retitled ''Blade Runner'' to tie-in with the movie based on the novel, Dick dedicated it to Tim and Serena Powers. Powers' first major novel was ''The Drawing of the Dark'' (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was ''The Anubis Gates'', which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages. Powers also teaches part-time in his role as Writer in Residence for the Orange County High School of the Arts in the Creative Writing Conservatory, and Chapman University, where Blaylock teaches. Powers and his wife, Serena Batsford Powers, currently live in Muscoy, California. He has frequently served as a mentor author as part of the Clarion science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop. He also taught part-time at the University of Redlands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim Powers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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