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PENROSE, Roger
World renowned mathematical physicist Roger Penrose is the author of nearly a dozen books, including The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (2004), White Mars Or The Mind Set Free (with Brian Aldiss, 1999), The Emperor’s New Mind (1989) and The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking, 1996). His various works have been published world-wide.
He was knighted in 1994 for services to science. Read the rest of this entry »
POWERS, Tim
United Kingdom and British Commonwealth only: Represented in these territories on behalf of Russell Galen at the Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency.
One of the pre-eminent and most respected names in the field of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tim Powers is the multi award-winning author of twelve novels including THE ANUBIS GATES (winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award and widely regarded now as a classic of the genre), LAST CALL and DECLARE (both of which won the World Fantasy Award for best novel) and ON STRANGER TIDES , a pirate fantasy upon which the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean is loosely based and which is acknowledged as the inspiration for the classic computer game, The Secret of Monkey Island. Other novels include DINNER AT DEVIANT’S PALACE, THE STRESS OF REGARD, EXPIRATION DATE, EARTHQUAKE WEATHER and THREE DAYS TO NEVER. Powers has also written a number of short stories, the latest of which, Parallel Lines, appeared in the STORIES anthology (2010) edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio.
PYE, Jim
Jim Pye is a psychotherapist and writer. He works in a university, as a counsellor and adviser to mature students, and with recovering addicts for an agency in the voluntary sector. He has published two books – both with Oxford University Press.
Invisible Children (1989), is a vivid study of children who vanish from everyone’s radar in adolescence. They give no-one any trouble; they seem to slide through life with no-one noticing them, disguising themselves as unremarkable. Invisible Children was widely reviewed, The Independent publishing a half-page feature about the book…. Read the rest of this entry »