FREE ANUBIS GATES PDF Tim Powers | 387 pages | 19 Aug 1999 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780441004010 | English | New York, United States The Anubis Gates - Wikipedia 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? 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