Description A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction's most original talents--back in print Ghosts can be caught, and bottled, and sold by covert dealers to 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 around the L.
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 Le Chuck were -plagiarized- derived from, plus the heavy influence of voodoo in the game.
the book] had a lot of what made fantasy in.
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