From The Files Of The Time Rangers

Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president. The Time Rangers, Apollo's chosen servants, are in charge of preserving the peace and harmony along the Time Stream, the pathway between various worlds and times, but Apollo has given them a new taskto protect Timothy Macauley, the chosen one who must become the president of the United States or else witness the destruction of humankind. Standing in the Rangers's way are other gods: Mercury, who's working his wiles in the world of public relations; Diana, cruising New York City in the guise of an NYPD detective; Pluto, who is in the process of grooming his successor; and Dionysus, who has caused the annihilation of an alternate world. Nonstop action keeps the story rolling from the 1950s to the present day, through this world and others. The author shares his insights into, and the history of, the mosaic novel in the afterworld.

Richard Bowes was born in Boston in 1944 and attended school there, and on Long Island, New York. In his third year as a freshman, he took writing courses with Mark Eisenstein at Hofstra College. After graduation, Bowes moved to Manhattan where he has lived for most of the last thirty-eight years and has done the usual jumble of things that writers do in order to earn a living. He launched his Speculative Fiction writing career in the early 1980s and published novels Warchild, Feral Cell, and Goblin Market.
In 1992 Bowes began writing a series of semi-autobiographical stories narrated by Kevin Grierson, a person with a doppelgänger. These stories were published primarily in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later became the novel Minions of the Moon. One story, “Streetcar Dreams,” won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella of the Year. The novel itself won the Lambda Award.
A short fiction collection, Transfigured Night and Other Stories, was published by Time Warner in 2001. It included the original novella, “My Life in Speculative Fiction.” These stories plus recent material will appear in Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies forthcoming in late 2005 from PS Publishing in England.
Over the last few years, Bowes has written a new series of stories about Time Rangers and the Gods, which have formed the mosaic novel From the Files of the Time Rangers. Time Ranger novelettes “The Ferryman’s Wife” and “The Mask of the Rex,” both originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, were finalists for the prestigious Nebula Award.