A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's
most original talents--back 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 flees--and 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."--Orson 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."--Washington Post Book World
"Powers is at heart a storyteller, and ruthlessly shapes his material
into narrative form."--The 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."--David
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 . .
."--legendary game designer Ron Gilbert
"Powers's strengths [are] his originality, his action-crammed plots,
and his ventures into the mysterious, dark, and supernatural."--Los
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."--SF Site
