Tim Powers writes historical fantasy that inserts secret magical systems into real events and biographies. The Anubis Gates sends a modern scholar back to nineteenth-century London, where time travel, Egyptian magic, poets and criminal underworlds collide. On Stranger Tides places piracy in the Caribbean alongside voodoo and the search for the Fountain of Youth, while Declare reimagines Cold War espionage and the life of Kim Philby through supernatural forces. Powers builds plots from documented historical gaps and coincidences, then uses magic to provide an invented explanation for them. His books are intricate, fast-moving and research-heavy, fitting historical fantasy, secret history and occult adventure for readers of James Blaylock, Neal Stephenson or Susanna Clarke. Read more Less
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