On Stranger Tides
#2119 of 8,085 books · #324 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1988) and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1988).
On Stranger Tides was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. 1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccaneer soon learns to handle a mainsail and wield a cutlass - only to discover he is now a subject of a Caribbean pirate empire ruled by one Edward Thatch, better known as Blackbeard. A practitioner of voodoo, Blackbeard is building an army of the living and the dead, to voyage together to search for the ultimate prize: the legendary Fountain of Youth.
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780246132369
- Topics
- PiratesVoodoo and dark magicQuest for the Fountain of Youth
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelShortlisted(1988)
- World Fantasy Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1988)
Other awarded books from Tim Powers
- Declare (2010)1 win · 18 score
- Last Call (2011)2 wins · 15 score
- Earthquake Weather (2011)1 win · 11 score
- Dinner at Deviant's Palace (2013)1 win · 10 score
- The Anubis Gates (2010)1 win · 10 score
- The Stress of Her Regard (2008)1 win · 10 score
- Expiration Date (2011)0 wins · 6 score
- Hide Me Among the Graves (2012)0 wins · 4 score
- Three Days to Never (2012)0 wins · 4 score
- My Brother's Keeper (2023)0 wins · 2 score
- My Mother's Keeper (2023)0 wins · 2 score
- The Drawing of the Dark (1981)0 wins · 2 score
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