Expiration Date - Softcover

Powers, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812555171 ISBN 13: 9780812555172

Publisher: Tor Fantasy, 1996

Synopsis

Los Angeles is filled with ghosts--and half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies--chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and becomes a precious prize in a deadly hunt for the elusive vitalspark. Brimming with the wild imagination and heart-stopping escapades that won Tim powers the World Fantasy Award, Expiration Date is an exuberant and inventive tale from one of fantasy's most original talents.

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Review:

Koot Parganas has stolen the ghost of Thomas Edison, preserved in a hidden glass vial. Now he's on the run through the dark underside of Los Angeles, among characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead. Like The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides, this fantasy has an astonishing power that remains long after the last page is turned.

From the Inside Flap:

Twelve-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas's parents prepared him for a career as a metaphysical holy man--but after they're brutally murdered one night he finds himself a fugitive in the darkest corners of Los Angeles, pursued by denizens of a dark underworld who want what Kootie's parents have been hiding for forty years--the ghost of Thomas Edison contained in a bust of Dante.But Kootie has broken the bust and inhaled the ghost, and now has in his head the lively personality of Edison himself--and together Kootie and Edison must learn the harsh rules of the occult world existing behind the glitter of modern Los Angeles, and find a way to save Kootie's life and free Edison's ghost from its earthly Purgatory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Fantasy
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0812555171
• ISBN 13: 9780812555172
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 544