Tim Powers is one of the most important, successful and influential writers in contemporary fantasy. His Novels deal with identity, heroism, art, magic and politics.
Tim Powers is one of the most important, successful and influential writers in contemporary fantasy. His Novels deal with identity, heroism, art, magic and politics.
His two most famous and important novels are LAST CALL and THE ANUBIS GATES.
THE ANUBIS GATES is the story of Brendan Doyle, a modern day literature professor who is transported to 19th century England, where he must deal with forces who aim to disrupt the very fabric of the British nation. These powers have already driven King George III mad, and now intend to send a brainwashed Lord Byron to kill him. Doyle must also dead with the insane millionaire with whom he arrived in the past, who now wants to use his funds and knowledge to dominate the world. THE ANUBIS GATES is the winner of the Philip K. Dick award, the Prix Apollo, the Readercon award and the Israeli Geffen award. In a poll conducted by Locus Magazine in 1998, THE ANUBIS GATES was voted 14th in the all time best fantasy novel category.
LAST CALL is the story of Scott Crane, a professional gambler who quit ten years ago. But now he's having nightmares about a strange Poker game that took place on a houseboat on Lake Mead in 1969. The game in which he won a fortune twenty-one years ago is, in a supernatural sense, not finished yet. The money he took home was actually in exchange for his life... and perhaps his soul. And there's one hand yet to be played. From the Poker clubs of Los Angeles through the mythic wasteland of the Mojave Desert to Bugsy Siegel's magical city of Las Vegas, Crane's odyssey leads him to one last Poker game, a game that involves Tarot card and the souls of the players much more than the chips on the table.
Powers' other books deal with Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Kim Philby, and a variety of other characters, some historical, some magical, some frightening.
Powers' novels have won two Philip K. Dick awards, two World Fantasy award, three Locus awards, one Mythopoetic award, one International Horror Guild award, one Geffen award, and several others.
Tim Powers is a regular teacher in the highly prestigious Clarion writer's workshop.
For further information:
http://www.theworksoftimpowers.com/
http://pw2.netcom.com/~cbranch/powers.html
Roger Nygard has served in many different capacities on the sets of films and television series. He has directed, written, edited and produced 13 films and shows, amongst them the movies Trekkies and it's sequel Trekkies 2, the documentary film Six Days in Roswell, and additional films such as Suckers and Mad About Town, which will be released in the near future.
Nygard's first film was a short film called Warper, which was part of an anthology of four short horror films, and is considered the best of them. This film won the first prize in the International Film Festival held in Houston in 1990. Nygard is remembered amongst the fannish community for the documentaries that he has directed and edited. Two of those dealt with Trek fandom through scenes from conferences and interviews with different people throughout the US and the world. The two Trekkies films were shown in the past at ICon, and caused much excitement amongst the audiences. His film from 1998, "Six Days in Roswell", offers a different and entertaining viewpoint of the so called alien landing at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
For further information:
http://www.rogernygard.com
Robert Burnett is a director, producer, editor and writer. He has worked in the film industry for many years, both from the production side and from the studio side. In 1998, he wrote and directed "Free Enterprise", starring Eric McCormack (of Will and Grace). The film is about two young film makers who meet their favorite actor since childhood (William Shatner, Star Trek) but discover that the man is different to the image they had pictured. The film won best film and best new writer awards at the AFI Film Festival in 1998 and was chosen to open the Sitges festival in Spain.
Burnett opened a company that provides additional content services to DVD movies. Due to this, he has enjoyed working on many of the blockbuster movies of the last few years, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, as well as the Spider-man and X-men movies. He has also worked on the DVD of the new Disney picture "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" which will be released at the end of 2005. These days, he and his crew can be found in Australia with director Brian Singer, working on the new Superman movie which is due to come out next year. For his work as a filmmaker, he has been nominated for many awards from the DVD Exclusive Academy.
For further information:
http://www.ludovicotechnique.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122428
Nimrod has been involved with mentalism and close-up for fifteen years. With an endless experience of performances around Israel and the world, privately and publicly, Nimrod is considered one of the foremost performers of his kind in Israel.
In the last few years, Nimrod has begun to investigate and specialise in suggestions and directed imagination. The "Art of Amazement" show that he has been performing with in the last few years show astonishing things about the mind, the body, what goes on between them, and what goes on beyond them. The show has recieved much acclaim where ever it has been shown.
Along with his career in mentalism, Nimrod is active in the field of sceptism and writing fiction (his book "Denial" has come out through Astrolog Publishing). He has a B.Sc. in computer programming, and is now studying for his M.A. in general literature at Tel Aviv University.
http://www.nimrodharel.co.il