提姆·鲍尔斯 Tim Powers：

1952年生。历史、神话与文字的魔法师。《加勒比海盗Ⅳ》原著作者。

1984年以《阿努比斯之门》荣获狄克奖，1986年以《魔宫晚餐》（Dinner at Deviant’s Palace）再获狄克奖。1993年获得世界奇幻奖的《牌局的尽头》（Last Call），19 96年获得星云奖的《保存期限》（Expiration Date），以及1998年再获星云奖的《地震天气》（Earthquake Weather）三本书以现在加州为背景，重新搬演亚瑟王神话并赋予新意。 至于2001年为他赢得国际恐怖协会奖（International Horror Guild Awards）以及世界奇幻奖两个大奖的新作《宣言行动》（Declare）看似间谍小说，实则探索诺亚方舟、阿拉伯的劳伦斯之死，以及美苏冷战的真相。

鲍尔斯擅长发掘看似平凡无奇的历史事件，糅合神话、传说与文学典故，并重新赋予我们原本熟悉的世界全新的风貌。

When Albert Einstein told Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 that the atomic bomb was possible, he did not tell the president about another discovery he had made, something so extreme and horrific it remained a secret . . . until now. This extraordinary new novel from one of the most brilliant talents in contemporary fiction is a standout literary thriller in which one man stumbles upon the discovery Einstein himself tried to keep hidden. </p>

When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank Marrity, has any idea that the theft has drawn the attention of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists-or that within hours they'll be visited by her long-lost grandfather, who is also desperate to get that tape. </p>

And when Daphne's teddy bear is stolen, a blind assassin nearly kills Frank, and a phantom begins to speak to her from a switched-off television set, Daphne and her father find themselves caught in the middle of a murderous power struggle that originated long ago in Israel and Germany but now crashes through Los Angeles and out to the Mojave Desert. To survive, they must quickly learn the rules of a dangerous magical chess game and use all their cleverness and courage-as well as their love and loyalty to each other-to escape a fate more profound than death. </p>

A pulse-pounding epic adventure that blurs the lines between espionage and the supernatural; good and evil; past, present and future, Three Days to Never is an exhilarating masterwork of speculative suspense from the always remarkable imagination of the incomparable Tim Powers. </p>