false <![CDATA[The Anubis Gates]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172136827m/142296.jpg 142296 19 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 <I>The Anubis Gates</I> 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. 2193115 1983 The Anubis Gates total:1150|5:455|4:394|3:235|2:49|1:17| 1150 4671 1806 138 4 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 14:32:35 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 14:42:10 -0800 2008 The Anubis Gates, Brendan Doyle, a professor of nineteenth-century English literature living in 1983 California, accidentally gets to try his hand at it when he is invited by a mad scientist to attend a l...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 29 21:52:56 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 21:59:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 22 12:24:01 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:06:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Fri Oct 17 15:33:37 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 19 16:06:00 -0800 2008 The Anubis Gates is fun, but it leaves one feeling a little short changed.

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