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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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Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science fiction paperback, this 1989 edition of the book that took the fantasy world by storm is the first hardcover version to be published in the United States. In his brief introduction, Ramsey Campbell sets The Anubis Gates in an adventure context, citing Powers's achievement of "extraordinary scenes of underground horror, of comedy both high and grotesque, of bizarre menace, of poetic fantasy."

The colonization of Egypt by western European powers is the launch point for power plays and machinations. Steeping together in this time-warp stew are such characters as an unassuming Coleridge scholar, ancient gods, wizards, the Knights Templar, werewolves, and other quasi-mortals, all wrapped in the organizing fabric of Egyptian mythology. In the best of fantasy traditions, the reluctant heroes fight for survival against an evil that lurks beneath the surface of their everyday lives.

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Tim Powers was born in 1952; the son of an attorney. He graduated from California State University in 1976 and since then has written more than a dozen highly acclaimed and award-winning novels, including the Fantasy Masterwork THE DRAWING OF THE DARK.

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  • PublisherGOLLANCZ (ORIO)
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0575077255
  • ISBN 13 9780575077256
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages464
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