Meeting Tim Powers is a very big
privilege, but to chat with him during more than half an hour, being able to
stretch the time I have been assigned for this interview, is even better.
Nobody complains, since his Spanish editor, Alejo Cuervo, is also with us,
enjoying the interview and chipping in from time to time. Who dares, then, to
interrupt Tim Powers, a man with an undeniable talent to develop some of the
best conspiratorial plots of modern fiction? What’s more, he definitely has the
remarkable gift of oral storytelling so that the topics with him never seem to
end. There is always something of his past, present or future waiting to ask about.
On the one hand, Powers is a steampunk pioneer, a style you can already find in The Anubis Gates, one of his first and most acclaimed works; on the
other hand, Disney turned his novel On
Stranger Tides into the forth installment of the famous Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise,
in addition to inspire the videogame Monkey
Island. Powers also can boast about being friends with Philip K. Dick
(author of Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?) and he even managed to create the fictional poet William Ashbless, who has a couple of
books published, together with his fellow writer James P. Blaylock.
