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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Anubis Gates to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Anubis Gates rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Anubis Gates. Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge inhe becomes marooned in Regency London, Anubis Gates dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught u Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Anubis Gates, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined Anubis Gates Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published January 1st by Ace Books first published December 1st More Details Original Title. Anubis Gates 1. Brendan DoyleJ. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Anubis Gatesplease sign up. See 1 question about The Anubis Gates…. Lists Anubis Gates This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Anubis Gates. Jul 22, Anubis Gates. Keely rated it did not like it Shelves: steampunkreviewed Anubis Gates, abandonedfantasy. A fairly common mistake made by authors is failing to be familiar with their genre. They end up retreading old ground and relying on long-dead cliches because they aren't aware of what's already been done. So, it behooves an author to get some familiarity with the genre Anubis Gates intends to work in, to ensure that he isn't just writing the same old story over again. In that spirit, I thought I'd check out this award-winning early piece of Steampunk. It was a rough start. One of the first red flags in an A fairly common mistake made by authors is failing to be familiar with their Anubis Gates. One of the first red flags in an author's prose is how often they use 'almost', 'seemed' or worst of all 'almost seemed' in their descriptions and metaphors. Such words are meaningless Anubis Gates, and are usually a sign that the author is not comfortable with his own figurative language, or is trying to seem mysterious without really knowing how to do it. We're barely a page in before Powers gives us 'a musty fetor. Almost shockingly incongruous, but not actually shockingly Anubis Gates. But, if it isn't actually shockingly incongruous, why not tell us what it really is like? Why use a phrase that almost describes the situation, but not quite? What is the benefit to this imprecision? Of course, in most cases, it is just 'shockingly incongruous', Anubis Gates the 'almost' just happened to slip in there for no reason at all. From there we move on to the conflicted metaphors: "His cloak flapping behind him in the wind like the wing-case of some gigantic insect" 'Like some' is another meaningless phrase to look out for in figurative language. It's meant to sound mysterious, but really, it's just filler. Beyond that, to anyone Anubis Gates familiar with insect wing-cases, this metaphor just doesn't make sense, because wing cases are rigid and held out steadily from the body during flight. They don't flap. In the case of the scarab, which I assume Powers is trying to evoke here in his Egyptian magic story, they're also shiny. Also, why does it have Anubis Gates be a 'gigantic' insect? Because he's a person, and people are bigger than insects? Figurative language Anubis Gates has that Anubis Gates. If you say 'his gaze darted about like a Anubis Gatesyou don't have to continue 'but a viper with hair, and external ears, and lacking scales, and also much larger than a normal one, and with limbs and no tail, and without the capacity for natural poison'. There's a reason that explaining a metaphor that way Anubis Gates often done as a joke--it's simply not necessary. Here's another one: "[The tent] looked, thought Fikee, like some huge nun in a particularly cold-weather habit, crouched beside the river in obscure devotion. Does that produce a clear and effective image in your mind, or a rather confused muddle? For me, it was definitely muddle. Anubis Gates two metaphors appear on the same page, along with another one about a smile being 'like a section of hillside falling away to expose old white stone'which isn't so bad, but that's a lot of trying-too-hard similes to cram on just one page. Next page. I don't think the verb 'wring' works there at all. Are you imagine someone twisting carpets with their voice in order to try to squeeze some extra echoes out of them, because that's what this description paints into my mind, and it is not remotely working. A few pages on, and we break suddenly into a long stretch of story exposition straight from the narrator about all this stuff that happened before, to set up the story. So, why start off Anubis Gates a mysterious intro where your characters are mumbling odd references to events, if you're going to explain them all Anubis Gates few pages later? That's a pretty quick way to kill all the mystery you had Anubis Gates been trying to build up. Then, the characters themselves start delivering long pieces of story exposition to one another, even though they all know these things Anubis Gates View all 53 comments. Oct 17, Brad rated it liked it Shelves: sci-fispeculativesci-fantasy. More time travel than steampunk, although it has been categorized as the latter, Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates is fun, but it leaves one feeling a little short changed. The problem is that Powers' story has the narrative scope of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, but it is packed into a mere ish pages. Beggar's guilds, Egyptian wizards, Romantic poets, business magnates, and prize fighters mix with cross dressing vengeance seekers, mad clowns, body snatchers, fire elementals and gypsies. Anubis Gates s More time travel than steampunk, although it has been categorized as the latter, Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates Anubis Gates fun, but it leaves one feeling a little short changed. Time slips from to to something and back toseemingly following a linear path of cause and effect, then spilling paradoxically into a strange whirlpool motion where effect can be cause Anubis Gates effect. And all of this is tremendously effective. It generates curiosity, makes one read at high speed, fills the imagination with wonder and provides great entertainment, Anubis Gates it is not enough. Powers creates characters so compelling, even his supporting characters, that one finds Anubis Gates wanting more, but the more never comes. We spend a tantalizing amount of time Anubis Gates Horrabin, the puppeteer-clown-beggar master, but it Anubis Gates never enough. There is simply never enough of these characters, and it leaves one feeling cheated. So in case you haven't already guessed, the great failing of The Anubis Gates is that it leaves the reader wanting more -- too much more. Occasionally that feeling can be healthy, but in this case it is mostly frustrating. Had Powers reduced the scale of The Anubis Gatesor increased the size of his story to match the scale, it could very well Anubis Gates been his masterpiece. But without serious alterations, The Anubis Gates is little more than an entertaining sci-fantasy confection that is difficult to recommend. But recommend it I shall, to anyone who likes time travel or creepy clowns or good, old fashioned chases. No matter how frustrating The Anubis Gates is, it is never boring nor a waste of time. Anubis Gates all 13 comments. Anubis Gates 07, Bradley rated it really liked it Shelves: horrorfantasysci-fisteampunktop-one-hundredpoetry. As for the first half of the novel, I'd easily give it 5 stars. I mean, where else can you see some unknown poet scholar of Coleridge and an even more unknown poet by the name of Ashbless turn into a time-travelling, swashbuckling hero able to make mortal enemies of near-immortal Egyptian wizards, and do it all the while in London for 35 more years? The details and the plot and the funny bits are absolutely great. I like Doyle before and after his transformation into an orange ape, too. I love Dog- Face Joe, the body-switching werewolf, all the dirty streets of London, and practically every single enemy in the book. So many of them had other sides to them and evil is not absolute. Even the writing is clear and interesting well past the middle part, and there was nothing in it to really turn me off about it except, perhaps, that it was too light and too action-y? SF : The Anubis Gates / Tim Powers ☆☆☆☆½

Wagner Support SF Reviews. SF Reviews. All rights reserved. Book cover art by Don Brautigan left. Tim Powers' masterpiece remains, over 20 years after its first publication, one of modern fantasy's most dazzling acts of the imagination. There have been other novels in the Anubis Gates about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates ' Anubis Gates slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. It's literally in a class by itself, a model for others to follow, and it's easy to see how it put Powers on the map. Powers' plot is so full of ideas and its execution so energetic you wonder how he could cram all of this into a single book. Many fantasy novels are long in the telling, with overly complicated plots to either impress or bore you depending Anubis Gates both your tastes and the author's skill. But you haven't quite seen a literary jigsaw puzzle where the pieces fit as smartly as they do here. Powers draws from everywhere: speculative quantum physics, ancient Egyptian mythology, Romany lore, Anubis Gates and Anubis Gates literature. Then he mixes it all together with the carefree exuberance of a kid with his first chemistry set. The result, of course, blows up the room — Anubis Gates in the best possible way. For sheer entertainment value, The Anubis Gates is hard to beat. The story relates the adventures of one Brendan Doyle, a literary scholar and classicist with a mediocre career who is hired by eccentric Anubis Gates J. Cochran Darrow to accompany a trip back in time — through a process involving gates, like holes in the ice over a frozen river — to London,where he and a group Anubis Gates high-paying Anubis Gates intend to witness a famous lecture by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Doyle is excited about the trip, not only because he is a Coleridge expert, but because the time period also coincides with the life of an obscure poet, William Ashbless, about whom Doyle wants to write his next book. Everything goes pear-shaped when Doyle is abducted from the tour group — thus missing his trip back to the present day — by a gang of nasty gypsies, led by one Dr. Romany, who witnesses the tour's arrival and demands to know everything about the time travel Anubis Gates involved. For as it turns out, Romany is part of another, more nefarious group utilizing the gates in time. Based in Egypt, a powerful sorcerer Anubis Gates employed agents, both real and artificial Romany is the kaor duplicate, of a Dr. Romanelli working in Greeceto damage the British Empire so thoroughly that its subsequent control in Egypt is thwarted, and Egypt can become an independent nation. An elaborate plan involving an attempt on the life of the king, the devaluing of British currency, and even the burning of London itself is in the works. And suddenly Doyle has appeared in the middle of it, an X factor that could upset the applecart. Powers' storytelling is breathtaking throughout. Doyle, at first, is barely able to survive on London's streets, and falls afoul of a guild of beggars run by the awesomely despicable villain Horribin, who wears I love this clown makeup to hide his deformities. An almost endless supply of subplots adds to the fun. There's a serial killer called Dog-Face Joe who is rumored to possess the bodies of his victims. The story takes us from England to Egypt and back, from to and even, briefly, back to We learn there's more than meets the eye to a number of characters, even Darrow, who is not at all out of the picture as we are initially led to believe. But Powers' masterstroke is the character of William Ashbless himself, whom the stranded Doyle hopes to meet, not merely for academic reasons, but for help in getting him Anubis Gates his feet in a strange century. There's a lovely twist in Anubis Gates plot that, I admit, Anubis Gates kind of saw coming. But doing so only made me appreciate Powers' cleverness as a storyteller all the more. Ashbless is so seamlessly incorporated into the historical London setting, interacting with such contemporary men of letters as Anubis Gates and Lord Byron, that your first temptation when reading the novel will be to rush to Wikipedia and look this Anubis Gates poet up. I suspect you'll get a kick out of what you discover. You owe it to yourself to book a trip through The Anubis Gates as soon as possible. Time, after all, waits for no one. World of fantasy: The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers | Books | The Guardian

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers. Dick Memorial Award Anubis Gatesthe book came with plenty of good word of mouth, to say the least. And, as it turns out, all the ballyhoo back when was fully justified, as this really IS some kind of superb work. In the novel, we meet a middle-aged widower named Brendan Doyle, an expert on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the fictional poet William Ashbless. Doyle is asked by an eccentric millionaire who has come up with a time travel device to journey back Anubis Gates London in the yearto attend a Coleridge lecture with a group of wealthy chrono tourists. Doyle warily agrees and — to make things brief — gets marooned in the past, where he soon becomes enmeshed in the machinations of Egyptian wizards attempting to destroy England. And just when the reader thinks this plot could not possibly get any wilder, Powers catapults Doyle back even further, to the year ! Indeed, there is no way for anyone to possibly guess what is coming next, in this truly zany romp of a book. Remarkably, every single page of this nearly page affair boasts some startling conversation, plot twist, description or speculation. Powers has done a huge amount of historical research, Anubis Gates his book Anubis Gates has the ring of verisimilitude, despite the outrageousness of the plot. And although stories with time travel paradoxes can sometimes leave me with a headache, I found this one absolutely delightful. Let me not mince words: The Anubis Gates is a blast, from its opening scene in a London gypsy camp in to its wonderful, ironic, totally satisfying conclusion in the swamps of Woolwich. Clute was right; Anubis Gates really DO love this book, and indeed am in awe of it. I would like to add that The Anubis Gates is not an easy read for folks who like me choose to look up every historical reference Anubis Gates place name that they encounter. Thus, I was able to spot one of two flubs that Powers is guilty of in his otherwise perfect work. At one point, he tells us that Coleman Street is east of Bishopsgate Street, whereas a quick look at the map will clearly show that it is west. When he infers on page that Doyle would be attending a literary Anubis Gates at the home Anubis Gates renowned publisher John Murray on a Tuesday, and two pages later says it would be on a Monday. Mere quibbles, of course. It is a very generous book, far more intelligent and humorous than it absolutely needs to be, and well deserving of all the accolades that it has recei ved. Oh…and I just love the inclusion of that pig Latin! I am in the mood for some healthy but hearty dissent. When a book has won awards and been included in top lists, it takes a certain amount of confidence to give it two stars, especially when to do so means disagreeing with Anubis Gates of my esteemed colleagues. That said, here I go. The plot of The Anubis Gates is certainly outrageous, jam- packed as it is with themes and characters to the point of ridiculousness. Anubis Gates Tim Powers has, as Sandy says, done a great deal of research to give his time travel tale the ring of truth. But for me this was not always to the good. Several passages Anubis Gates of an Anubis Gates determined to drop in all Anubis Gates things he knows, regardless of whether it drives the story. I want to be transported to England and hear its sounds and smell its smells. The random historical pointers were jarring. This leads me on to another bugbear. I frequently came Anubis Gates descriptive sentences in The Anubis Gates that made me so Anubis Gates I experienced a perverse enjoyment in turning down the corners of particularly irksome pages. Why not just say he was panicking? I love a surprising, evocative simile, but Anubis Gates the life of me I cannot summon a guess at what a clock clearing Anubis Gates throat sounds like. Battling through these convoluted snippets of detail proved exhausting although battle I did in order to bring you my words of wisdom. I am willing to admit that The Anubis Gates is Anubis Gates remarkably impressive weaving of ideas and it packs Anubis Gates pacey plot. I loved the little Spoonsize Boys and the raging fires with minds of their own. But aside from those titbits the vast array of characters were flat and mostly unlikeable. The Anubis Gates of Samuel Coleridge and Lord Byron felt unnatural. And for that terrible finale, please forgive me. This time I listened to Anubis Gates audiobook narrated by Anubis Gates Pinchot, also known as Balki from the inane sitcom Perfect Strangers back in the s. He has become a well-respected voice actor and sounds nothing like that silly character. He manages to do a huge range of accents, mostly Victorian Anubis Gates, and the Anubis Gates of historical details of Victorian London that Powers packs into such an action-filled story is quite an impressive achievement. Hearing so many familiar place names in London was a great pleasure. Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time when every book I read was a completely immersive experience, but the next best thing is to step into the river again and see what it feels like. June 18th, After Anubis Gates "misspent youth" of steady and incessant doses of Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and any and all forms of Anubis Gates and sci-fi literature, Sandy has changed little in the four decades since. His favorite author these days is H. Rider Haggardwith whom he feels a strange kinship -- although Sandy is not English or a manored gentleman of the 19th century -- and his favorite reading matter consists of sci-fi, fantasy and horror Sandy is also a devoted buff of classic Hollywood and foreign films, and has reviewed extensively on the IMDb under the Anubis Gates "ferbs She Anubis Gates lucky enough to be showered with books as a child and from the moment she had The Hobbit read to her as a bedtime Anubis Gates was hooked on all things other-worldy. Katie believes that characters are always best when they are believable and complex even when they aren't human and is a sucker for a tortured soul or a loveable rogue. She loves all Anubis Gates magical and the more fairies, Anubis Gates and mystical Anubis Gates the better. Her personal blog is Nothing if Not a Hypocrite. Despite growing up in beautiful Hawaii, he spent most of his time reading as many SFF books as possible. BanksN. JemisinJ. ClarkeH. WellsOlaf StapledonJ. TolkienMervyn Peakeetc. So it Anubis Gates have been around. Thanks for the excellent review. Hope you both enjoy this book as much as I did, ladies. And thanx for the kind words, Marion…. This is Anubis Gates my favourite Powers book. Otherwise, early Powers is best — I felt he lost his way at some point. Thanks for the Anubis Gates, Sandy. And Tizz, thanks for the recommendations! This was definitely a wild and crazy ride that Anubis Gates a little bit of everything but somehow manages to stay together. All of Anubis Gates others Anubis Gates way too grim for me. This also holds true for me with dropped in foreign words and dialogue. This Anubis Gates give the characters and story background Anubis Gates tone. It depicts something we can only get via that exaggerated mannerism. And since I read page books on a regular basis, I tend to not realize when an author is having fun with descriptions. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Winners are announced in the comments. As is our tradition, Sandy will be reviewing a horror movie every weekday in October! All rights reserved. Just so you know, some of the books we review are received free from publishers. Much of our site's special functionality was coded by Zane Hooper. We Love This! Five Star SFF! Best of the Years Fun! Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure… A best-selling novel by a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award combines action and adventure with the surreal and bizarre. If you plan to buy this book, you can support FanLit by clicking on the book cover above and buying it and anything else at Amazon. It costs you nothing extra, but Amazon pays us a small referral fee. Click any book cover or this link. We Anubis Gates this income to keep the site running. It pays for website hosting, postage for giveaways, and bookmarks and t-shirts. Thank you! 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