Expiration Date
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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 L.A. 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.
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 L.A. 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.
Tim 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 as Last Call and Alternate Routes, 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.