The Anubis Gates - Hardcover

Powers, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929480104 ISBN 13: 9780929480107

Publisher: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990

Synopsis

Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic.

When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684.

Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.

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Review:

Praise for Tim Powers

"Powers has all the writing skills needed to dazzle...[he] writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of. And, just when it threatens to get out of hand, there's a dash of humor and irony that keeps you ready for the joy of it."--The Washington Post

"Tim Powers is a genius."--Algis Budrys, Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

"The best fantasy writer to appear in decades."--Manchester Guardian

"Powers deserves wider attention."--San Francisco Chronicle

"No author alive can take such notions and make them so utterly believable. No one but Tim Powers."--David Brin

"One of those writers with an utterly unique voice and sense of vision."--OtherRealms

"Tim Powers is a name to be reckoned with."--Science Fiction Chronicle

Book Description:

A fast-paced and exciting tale of a nineteenth century London that never was by a master storyteller

About this edition

• Publisher: Mark V. Ziesing
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0929480104
• ISBN 13: 9780929480107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 361