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A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most
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A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talentsâÃÂback in print! THE GHOSTS OF THE L.A. FREEWAYS ARE RISING Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold. What's more, a network of covert dealers services the addicts who inhale the things. And when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles' occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and get Edison's powerful ghost for themselves. Aided by Edison's confused and irascible ghost, Kootie fleesâÃÂand finds himself dodging perils natural and supernatural in the gritty alleys and trainyards of a Los Angeles that tourists never see. From the slums of the L.A. River, to the abandoned Houdini mansion in the Hollywood Hills, to a final dramatic confrontation on the haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talents. About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale....[He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."âÃÂOrson Scott Card "...immensely clever stuff....Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting...All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger."âÃÂWashington Post Book World "Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form."âÃÂThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "On Stranger Tides...immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."âÃÂDavid Langford "On Stranger Tides...was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were-plagiarized-derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game....[the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting..."âÃÂlegendary game designer Ron Gilbert "Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural."âÃÂLos Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers' work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny...and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels....Powers' descriptions...are breathtaking, sublimely precise...his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt."âÃÂSF Site.
A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most
[...]
A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talentsâÃÂback in print! THE GHOSTS OF THE L.A. FREEWAYS ARE RISING Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold. What's more, a network of covert dealers services the addicts who inhale the things. And when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles' occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and get Edison's powerful ghost for themselves. Aided by Edison's confused and irascible ghost, Kootie fleesâÃÂand finds himself dodging perils natural and supernatural in the gritty alleys and trainyards of a Los Angeles that tourists never see. From the slums of the L.A. River, to the abandoned Houdini mansion in the Hollywood Hills, to a final dramatic confrontation on the haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talents. About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale....[He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."âÃÂOrson Scott Card "...immensely clever stuff....Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting...All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger."âÃÂWashington Post Book World "Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form."âÃÂThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "On Stranger Tides...immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."âÃÂDavid Langford "On Stranger Tides...was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were-plagiarized-derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game....[the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting..."âÃÂlegendary game designer Ron Gilbert "Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural."âÃÂLos Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers' work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny...and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels....Powers' descriptions...are breathtaking, sublimely precise...his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt."âÃÂSF Site.
A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most
[...]
A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talentsâÃÂback in print! THE GHOSTS OF THE L.A. FREEWAYS ARE RISING Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold. What's more, a network of covert dealers services the addicts who inhale the things. And when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison, he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles' occult underground are after him, determined to kill him and get Edison's powerful ghost for themselves. Aided by Edison's confused and irascible ghost, Kootie fleesâÃÂand finds himself dodging perils natural and supernatural in the gritty alleys and trainyards of a Los Angeles that tourists never see. From the slums of the L.A. River, to the abandoned Houdini mansion in the Hollywood Hills, to a final dramatic confrontation on the haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talents. About Tim Powers: "Powers writes in a clean, elegant style that illuminates without slowing down the tale....[He] promises marvels and horrors, and delivers them all."âÃÂOrson Scott Card "...immensely clever stuff....Powers' prose is often vivid and arresting...All in all, Powers' unique voice in science fiction continues to grow stronger."âÃÂWashington Post Book World "Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material into narrative form."âÃÂThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "On Stranger Tides...immediately hooks you and drags you along in sympathy with one central character's appalling misfortunes on the Spanish Main, [and] escalates from there to closing mega-thrills so determinedly spiced that your palate is left almost jaded."âÃÂDavid Langford "On Stranger Tides...was the inspiration for Monkey Island. If you read this book you can really see where Guybrush and LeChuck were-plagiarized-derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game....[the book] had a lot of what made fantasy interesting..."âÃÂlegendary game designer Ron Gilbert "Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots, and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural."âÃÂLos Angeles Times Book Review "[Powers' work delivers] an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny...and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels....Powers' descriptions...are breathtaking, sublimely precise...his status as one of fantasy's major stylists can no longer be in doubt."âÃÂSF Site.
