Alternate Routes AND Forced Perspectives AND Stolen Skies

Alternate Routes

Illustrations by the author

Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways - phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked offramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway - and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade.

Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy, and a woman who makes her living costumed as Supergirl on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Theater, Vickery learns what legendary hell it is that the desert highway leads to - and when Castine deliberately drives into it to save him from capture, he must enter it himself to get her out.

Alternate Routes is a fast-paced supernatural adventure story that sweeps from the sun-blinded streets and labyrinthine freeways of Los Angeles to a horrifying other world out of Greek mythology, and Vickery and Castine must learn to abandon old loyalties and learn loyalty to each other in order to survive as the world goes mad around them.

Limited to 150 signed and numbered copies handbound in black Japanese silk and sold out at the publisher

Forced Perspectives

In 1968 the Spiral Staircase House in Topanga Canyon had bad mojo. Evil enough to reach out to Vickery and Castine fifty years later—

A movie filmed in 1923 with hieroglyphics in its sets, hieroglyphics so powerful that today they can spark an apocalypse on the site of the old Spiral Staircase House—

A coloring book with a page designed to psychically initiate viewers into the coming apocalypse—

Vickery and Castine are in it up to their love beads.

And Tim Powers has done it again.

Limited to 150 signed/numbered copies exquisitely printed with illustrations by the author. Hand bound in black Japanese silk. Sphinx hand-stamped in gold on the front board.

Stolen Skies

Is the third Sebastian Vickery/Ingrid Castine novel. The duo is thrown together once again to deal with UFO sightings—real and government invented—at Giant Rock in Landers California, an actual location known to be a beacon for UFO sightings and even landings. Vickery and Castine have no choice but to try to derail a UFO landing which will bring devastating effects in its wake.

Tim Powers has a gift for using real locations with bizarre histories to weave his one-of-akind fiction. His use of Giant Rock and its history is a perfect example of embellishing the bizarre, twisting the twisted, and tying it all together with actual facts that leave you wanting to see these places and look at them through his fiction-tinted glasses. Powers writes so well that you want his take to be the real one.

Tim has gone to Giant Rock to collect fragments of the monolith to include with the lettered edition of his Charnel House limited edition. It is his way of bringing proof of the reality of which he writes about, as well as to give an experience through artifacts that support his fiction. You can’t get any closer and it doesn’t get any better.

The Charnel House limited edition also includes the map of the underground tunnels of the Lizard People drawn by G. Warren Shufelt in 1933, which made the Los Angeles Times on January 29, 1934 with the headline: LIZARD PEOPLE’S CATACOMB CITY HUNTED, Engineer Sinks Shaft Under Fort Moore Hill to Find Maze of Tunnels and Priceless Treasures of Legendary Inhabitants. The map was later used as a negation symbol to try to dissuade the aliens from landing at Giant Rock in 2021. Tim’s stories cleave so closely to facts that it's not easy to know what's reality and what's fiction. That is pure Powers.

Limited to 150 numbered copies handbound in black Japanese silk with crop circles, drawn by the author, stamped on the front board in gold.