Expiration Date, Tim Powers
Expiration Date, Tim Powers
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Expiration Date

Author: Tim Powers

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 19 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2019

Synopsis

Ghosts can be caught, 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’s 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.From the slums around the LA 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.

About Tim Powers

Tim Powers is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, and Three Days to Never. He has received the Locus, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on August 05, 2021

THE‌ ‌GREAT‌ ‌COMPLETIST‌ ‌CHALLENGE:‌ ‌In‌ ‌which‌ ‌I‌ ‌revisit‌ ‌older‌ ‌authors‌ ‌and‌ ‌attempt‌ ‌to‌ ‌read‌ every‌ ‌book‌ ‌they‌ ‌ever‌ ‌wrote‌ Currently‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌challenge:‌ ‌Isaac‌ ‌Asimov's‌ ‌Robot/Empire/Foundation‌ |‌ ‌Margaret‌ Atwood‌ |‌ ‌JG‌ ‌Ballard‌ |‌ Clive‌ ‌Barker‌ |‌ Christopher......more

Goodreads review by William on January 04, 2017

Tim Powers is one of my favorite writers, but EXPIRATION DATE isn't among my favorite of his books. I've started and stopped it several times in the past, but this time I have the next in the loose series, EARTHQUAKE WEATHER to read and I was determined to push through and get to the end. But to be......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on June 18, 2017

Tim Powers does a great job with the secret history concept, especially with L.A. as a backdrop. Expiration Date is a love letter to the seedier side of the city, encompassing abandoned apartment complexes, Latino herbalists, and the deteriorating Queen Mary. But while the novel is pretty fast and e......more

Goodreads review by Erin on December 04, 2009

I liked this, but not as much as Last Call. It took a little too long to get into the action of the story, there were too many narrators at the beginning (a few of which we never hear from again) and I felt that it didn't gel as a story until well after page 100 or so. That's a lot of pages for a re......more

Goodreads review by Johnny on June 03, 2016

Tim Powers is one of the most creative writers of modern fantasy that I have ever read. Expiration Date touches on so many original ideas that it is hard to describe them without giving away spoilers. Powers has created his own pneumatology in terms of ghosts, undead (I know they aren’t “spirits,” b......more

Quotes

“The novel is a minefield of exploding surprises that will have readers convinced that the author has tapped into a more magical reality behind everyday life.” Publishers Weekly

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