The Works of Tim Powers

John Berlyne has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award. His illustrated bibliography of Tim's work, Powers: Secret Histories, was published by PS Publishing. You can see the ballot at the
Locus web site.

Science Fiction Awards Watch reports that the nominees for the Xatafi-Cyberdark Spanish language awards have been announced. The results will be announced at the Getafe Negro convention in Madrid over the weekend of October 18-24, 2010.
The nominees include:

Translated Book

• Titán, Ben Bova (La Factoría de Ideas)
• Diáspora, Greg Egan (AJEC)
• El corcel (The Mount), Carol Emshwiller (Alamut)
• El nombre del viento (The Name of the Wind), Patrick Rothfuss (Plaza & Janés)
• El reparador de biblias (The Bible Repairman), Tim Powers (Gigamesh)
• Visión ciega (Blindsight), Peter Watts (Bibliópolis)

Translated Story

• "Un alma embotellada" ("A soul in a bottle"), Tim Powers (El reparador de biblias (The Bible Repairman), Gigamesh)
• "El camino de bajada" ("The low road"), Tim Powers (El reparador de biblias (The Bible Repairman), Gigamesh)
• "Dondequiera que se oculten" ("Wherever it hides"), Tim Powers (El reparador de biblias (The Bible Repairman), Gigamesh)
• "El reparador de biblias" ("The Bible repairman"), Tim Powers (El reparador de biblias (The Bible Repairman), Gigamesh)

Charnel House is doing a 126-copy edition of Deliver Us From Evil: A Portion and Outline. Every copy will come with a sheet of the original hand-written manuscript, which Tim wrote in 1978/9. According to Tim as posted on the Charnel House website:

It's a book proposal I sent to Lester del Rey in 1979, right after he bought The Drawing of the Dark, and, since I didn't know any better in those days, it's three chapters and an insanely detailed outline. Del Rey rejected it, of course, and twenty years ago I gave the manuscript to Joe Stefko, and he recently dug it out and decided that the (my rough guess) 20,000 word outline was so insanely detailed that it adequately continued and finished the story begun in the first three chapters. Altogether the thing is probably about 35,000 words.

Tim reports:

Serena and I might get to visit the set of the Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides on Tuesday, the 17th of August. If it works out, I'll describe here what went on.

One of our intrepid correspondents sent us a link to a podcast which features Tim Powers. Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column did an interview with Tim at the World Fantasy Convention in 2009. You can find A 2009 Interview with Tim Powers. The link to the audio interview is posted there.