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Anybody knows why his litterary production seems to have stopped with Declare ? Hektor 14:26, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

There's a new novel that should be out before too long, currently titled In Broken Calendars (several working titles were bandied about earlier). It involves Einstein. Powers has been talking about it on the Yahoo Groups list - see external links. As for what else he was doing in the meantime, I know he's got short stories here and there, so he didn't exactly stop. ←Hob 20:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Powers' Comments 2 Three Days to Never 3 Dedication of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Powers 4

[edit] Powers' Comments

I talked with Powers briefly at the ICon 2005 Festival, asked his permission to publish the photo on Wikipedia, and he said he has read this article and found it to be quite a nice one. Just FYI. Volland 19:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Three Days to Never

I've added a stub for Three Days to Never. I invite everyone to contribute to it. --KNHaw 23:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dedication of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Powers

Powers was born in 1952, so he was only sixteen years old when Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was first published. This article implies that he did not meet Philip K. Dick until he went to Cal State Fullerton, which he is unlikely to have done at the age of 16. When did Philip K. Dick and Tim Powers meet? Did Dick really dedicate the first edition of this novel to the sixteen-year-old Powers? Or did Dick add the dedication in a later edition? Has anyone seen a copy of any edition of this book that names Powers as the dedicatee? Paulannis 14:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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JB, 26 Sep 2007: Both editions I have (London, Millennium, 1999; London, Harper Collins, 1993) show the dedication to Maren Augusta Bergrud, who I believe was the partner of Dick's friend Bishop Jim Pike and who committed suicide shortly before Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? came out. There is, however, a note at the beginning of Radio Free Albemuth thanking Tim Powers for the manuscript, which Dick had not published during his lifetime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.168.7.120 (talk) 14:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)