Expiration Date

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 Fromm the slums around the LA 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 the AuthorTim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K Dick award and is considered a modern science fiction classic and a progenitor of the Steampunk genre Powers won the Dick award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace Many of his novels such asLast Call and
Alternate Routes upcoming from Baen Books are so-called “secret histories” which use real historical events in which supernatural and metaphysical elements influence the story in weird and compelling manners Powers grew up in Southern California and studied English at Cal State Fullerton where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock and K W Jeter as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K Dick who became a close friend and mentor Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims “stories are more effective and more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions when they manifest themselves without the writer’s conscious assistance I concern myself with my plots but I let my subconscious worry about my themes” Powers still resides in Southern
California with his wife Serena