Forced Perspectives
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2020
Summary
A BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HAUNTED LOS ANGELES
Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh’s Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923?
Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles — from Satanic indie movies of the ‘60s, to the unquiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro … pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982124403 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1982124407 |
| Author: | Tim Powers |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 553g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Vickery and Castine |
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Tim Powers
Tim Powers is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was adapted into the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Powers’ book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K. Dick Award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the steampunk genre. He won the Dick Award again for his post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace. Many of his novels, such as Last Call and Alternate Routes, are “secret histories,” weaving supernatural and metaphysical elements into real historical events.
Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton. There, he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K.W. Jeter, as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K. Dick, who became a close friend and mentor. A practicing Catholic, Powers believes, “Stories are more effective, and more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions, when they manifest themselves without the writer’s conscious assistance. I concern myself with my plots, but I let my subconscious worry about my themes.”
Tim Powers currently resides in Southern California with his wife, Serena.
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